Chapter 7 The design of Chapter 6 was completed with great care

Architecture, based on blueprints. The Zhou Enlai Gina Hall is a permanent memorial building for a great man, it will be admired by the world for generations to come, and it must be able to withstand contemporary and historical criticism. The high requirements show the great responsibility of the designer. At a meeting, the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to hand over the design of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall to Southeast University. Southeast University is well aware of the weight of this decision.They immediately transferred a group of experienced technicians from the Institute of Architecture, Architecture Design Institute, and Department of Architecture of the school to form the planning and design team of Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall.Professor Qi Kang, director of the Institute of Architecture of Southeast University and a famous architect, is responsible for the overall planning and design.

Design, this is an advanced creative labor.From intangible to tangible, from general to unique, although it seems to be just a step away, in fact, it requires great wisdom and hard work from the designer. From the day when the task was formally accepted, more than a dozen heads of the design team fell into contemplation.According to the guiding ideology that the building should not only inherit the Chinese tradition, but also reflect the modern architectural level of the 1990s, not only highlight the commemorative atmosphere, but also take into account the commemorative and tourist destinations of the entire museum area, seven kinds of buildings appeared successively in their works. Model of the memorial plan.There are "siheyuan" style, "one-storey two-storey style", "promenade style", and "exhibition hall style".These architectural schemes have their own characteristics and meanings.

At the end of 1988, the Provincial Party Committee held the second demonstration meeting on the design plan of Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall.The architectural models of several schemes were placed on the long table in the middle of the venue one by one.After a long discussion, all the participants felt that each plan had its own uniqueness, and everyone hoped to find a better architectural plan that could better reflect a great man like the Prime Minister. After further discussion, after enthusiastically affirming the painstaking efforts of the design team, the meeting focused on one or two existing plans. The perfect design package comes.

The historical responsibility fell to Professor Qi Kang. Qi Kang felt the hopeful gazes cast on him by everyone in the venue, but he didn't speak, and there was not even a trace of expression on his face.He looked a little tired.But his tightly pursed lips made people feel that he was secretly accumulating strength. Qi Kang deeply felt the weight of responsibility falling on his shoulders.There is a saying in China's architectural circles that "beams in the north and Yang in the south".And Qi Kang happened to be the disciple of Yang Tingbao, a well-known authority on architectural design in the 1950s.He has participated in the design of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Beijing, and presided over the design of Nanjing Yuhuatai Memorial Hall, Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, Nanjing Meiyuan New Village Memorial Hall and other buildings.The architecture of Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area he designed has won awards in national design competitions.However, when designing the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, he felt powerless to some extent.The Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is the tenth major building he has presided over to design. He is fully expecting to draw a successful conclusion to his design career. However, it is not easy to complete the completion.

Zhou Enlai is a great man of his generation who is admired all over the world and has unique charm.Designing his memorial hall is really too difficult. A long time of contemplation made Qi Kang's gray hair even more noticeable.He combed it lightly with his fingers, and a dozen silver threads fell down.Qi Kang knew that for the Zhou Enlai Memorial to be well designed, the building itself must incorporate Zhou Enlai's unique spiritual temperament and vividly reflect Zhou Enlai's image, character and personality.To truly achieve this, the designer must have a more comprehensive and thorough understanding of Zhou Enlai.

After the demonstration meeting, Qi Kang drove to Huai'an again.For more than a year, Qi Kang came to Huai'an almost every month.He sat by the wenqu for a long time.He went to Zhenhuai Tower to have a look.He was fascinated by Zhou Enlai's photo for a long time.He tried his best to experience the breath of that great man, feel the beating of that great heart. It was a sunny morning, and Qi Kang appeared again on the path from Zhou Enlai's former residence to Taohuayin.On this day, he felt refreshed, and his mind was particularly active and quick.He vaguely felt that what he had captured for many days was about to flash in the sea of ​​his thoughts.He walked forward step by step.Various scenes of Zhou Enlai flashed through his mind from time to time: Zhou Enlai pulled a cart to work with the masses at the Ming Tombs reservoir; The ground was cracked, and he walked into the cottage with aftershocks; Zhou Enlai, who was seriously ill at the Fourth National People's Congress, described with passion the grand blueprint for realizing the four modernizations by the end of this century.There is also Zhou Enlai's shirt with patched collar and cuffs, and Zhou Enlai queuing up to buy steamed bread and vegetable soup in the Zhongnanhai cafeteria during difficult times.

Just when Qi Kang was lost in thought, a cuckoo's cry suddenly came from the air.Looking far and wide, in the fields, farmers are working hard.Qi Kang's heart seemed to be hit violently by something, and his point of view was immediately pulled closer.This is a construction site full of plainness and simplicity, and it is also a land where greatness and nobility are born.Zhou Enlai, who was diligent, worked hard all his life, devoted himself to death, was born on this land.From this piece of land, Qi Kang naturally thought of the common building "ox cart shed" with four pillars and sloping roof in the past, the waiting pavilion by the Grand Canal, the resting pavilion by the side of the country road, and Huai'an. The houses have crescent doors, which reminds me of the eternal pyramids in Egypt... With the whirling of thoughts, all kinds of wonderful ideas gradually become clear and take shape in the brain.

Qikang's idea is to fill in the middle of Taohua Yin to form a memorial peninsula, and the main building of the memorial hall is placed on the memorial peninsula, so that the memorial hall is surrounded by water on three sides, creating an effect of water and sky, blending with each other and being approachable, forming a harmonious environment. A calm and solemn atmosphere. The memorial hall is divided into main hall and auxiliary hall. The plane of the auxiliary building is in the shape of a "person", and the center and two ends of the "person" are respectively elevated to create the effect of a mirror frame.The auxiliary pavilion embraces the main pavilion, which symbolizes that Zhou Enlai will always be with the people and that Zhou Enlai will always live in the hearts of the people.

The main hall is 26 meters high, which is equal to the height of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and Yuhua Terrace.The roof adopts a four-slope shape with framed windows, supported by four 11-meter-high beams and pillars, which symbolize the four modernizations that Zhou Enlai proposed four times before his death in my country. The entire main hall is located on a trapezoidal abutment, with a square shape and an octagonal interior. The hall on the second floor is twisted 45 degrees relative to the ground floor, and the walls are square on the outside and octagonal on the inside, which breaks the habit of absolute balance and unity in traditional Chinese architecture. , and at the same time give people an aura of turning things around.

The main hall is divided into three floors, the first floor is the exhibition hall, the second floor is the memorial hall, and the top floor is the viewing platform.Important pictures, cultural relics and materials that reflect Zhou Enlai's glorious life are displayed in the exhibition hall. A white marble statue of Zhou Enlai is placed behind the memorial hall with a diameter of 15 meters and a height of 16 meters.The top of the main hall is equipped with double-layer glass, so that the statue can not only get good natural light, but also obtain the meaning of Zhou Enlai's indomitable spirit.After paying homage to the memorial hall, visitors climb to the top platform, where they can enjoy the surrounding lake scenery and the ancient city of Huai'an from a distance.The exterior walls of the building are all finished with blue-gray granite, which makes the overall shape solemn, clear, concise, novel and full of the flavor of the times.The water in the museum area is rippling and the grass is luxuriant.Green pines and green cypresses, circuitous roads, not only highlight the commemorative, but also take into account the sightseeing.

At the last demonstration meeting of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall design plan, Qi Kang smiled and presented his carefully crafted model of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall to the participants.When people's eyes touched the novel, unique, unique and vivid shape, everyone couldn't help but exclaim.This plan is well designed, solemn but not dull, beautiful but not frivolous, blending tradition and modernity, combining ethnicity and foreign countries, harmonious form and connotation, integration of architecture and nature, simplicity in nobility, and simplicity in dignity. Extraordinary, majestic in simplicity, friendly in solemnity, both in spirit and form, it can be called a natural skill! The leading comrades who presided over the meeting were overjoyed, and they made a final decision to formalize this plan. Qi Kang, who was exhausted, finally let out a long, long breath.