Waterfront Industrial Heritage Protection and Prolonging the Spirit of the City: A Case Study of the Industrial Heritage Area in the West Side of Gongchen Bridge, Hangzhou
Received date: 2014-03-12
Request revised date: 2014-06-19
Online published: 2015-02-15
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Industrial heritage is critical representation of the industrial civilization. It carries the memory of the modernization process of the city, and provides precious foundations for city renewal and brand building. The transform of industrial structure and the rising awareness of heritage protection make the waterfront docks, garages, and old factories become important industrial heritages. Based on a review of industrial heritage and the spirit of the city, this study uses the industrial heritage area on the west side of Gongchen Bridge, Hangzhou, which adopts the museum approach and builtds Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museums, as a case study. It firstly examines the development model and initiatives undertaken by the management team, including the holistic protection model, positioning on the mass audience, live presentation approach, initiative management, and adopting of digital techniques. This study suggests a dual-layer model, including a basic element layer and a supporting element layer, referring to industrial heritage protection and prolonging the spirit of the city in this case. Through in-depth interviews from a view of a city wanderer, this study further assesses different stakeholders’ attitudes towards the museums’ practice in protecting and transferring the industrial heritages. In this case, the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage takes a comprehensive form which integrates partial functions of traditional museum, creativity industry park and leisure tourism place together instead of a single so-called reuse model. Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museums own its unique lead, innovation and brand, which is bound up with external factors including Hangzhou’s urban renewal concept, leisure tourism environment, cultural industries cultivation, internationalization, etc., and internal factors brought by the Grand Canal (Hangzhou Section) Comprehensive Protection Project. Therefore, empirical model related to this case could be only provided as a reference and comparison, and more effective ways would be found if combined with the trend of urban organic renewal, heritage authenticity protection, industrial chain extension, and human emotional appeal.
ZHANG Huan-zhou , SHEN Xu-wei , WU Mao-ying . Waterfront Industrial Heritage Protection and Prolonging the Spirit of the City: A Case Study of the Industrial Heritage Area in the West Side of Gongchen Bridge, Hangzhou[J]. SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA, 2015 , 35(2) : 183 -189 . DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2015.02.183
Fig.1 The physical distribution of the Arts and Crafts Museums图1 工美馆群区位分布 |
Table 1 The protection and usage of the industrial heritage area on the west edge of Gongchen Bridge, Hangzhou表1 杭州运河拱宸桥西区域工业遗产保护利用概况 |
工业遗产(存) | 建立时间 | 主题博物馆 | 改建时间(年) | 建筑组合 | 建筑细部特色 | 保留建筑面积(m2) | 新增建筑面积(m2) |
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杭州土特产公司仓库 | 1950s | 中国刀剪剑、伞博物馆 | 2009 | 建筑群 | 窑砖符号 | 5848 | 10311 |
通益公纱厂 (杭一棉) | 1896年 | 中国扇博物馆 | 2009 | 建筑群 | —— | 6056 | 7487 |
手工艺活态展示馆 | 2011 2013 | 建筑群 | 锯齿状屋顶 | 2838.86 | —— | ||
红雷丝织厂 | 1960s | 杭州工艺美术博物馆 | 2011 | 建筑单体 | 锯齿状屋顶 | 14111 | 4519 |
数据来源:本研究综合整理;其中,手工艺活态馆分一期、二期分期改造。 |
Fig.2 Prolonging the spirit of the city: a dual-layer model adopted by Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museums图2 杭州运河工美馆群城市记忆延续双层模式 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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