Design Strategies For Urban Design Used In The Museum Complex Design In Wuxi

Museum complex, as a very important element of a city, it is a vivid portrayal of urban development of economic and culture. Museum complex in the city plaza lie in providing a cultural space which is full of human feeling for citizens activity and contacts while creating material wealth, propagating urban culture and reflecting urban spirit. As the public space which contacts citizen life closely, the modern city museum complex has gone out of the times of single function, its content and function are becoming more complicated as well as the style more various. Under this background, the museum complex needs to reflect the city's culture and to correspond with the urban environment and urban square. The museum complex will become a new landmark of the city and a cultural center.The paper takes the Wuxi city museum, the science and technology museum, the revolutionary exhibition hall complex design as a starting point. First, the paper establishes and combs the basic understanding and the system concept of urban design. Then discussed has joined the urban design strategy to the museum complex design and has investigated and analyzed the new Guangdong museum and the Shanghai museum. After that, the paper has analyzed the site of the museum complex in Wuxi and the building and the city characteristic, using the urban design strategies produces the goal building. Finally, the paper reconsidered the insufficiency of other designs which bid the same competition and the limitation of research and has looked forward to the research direction.