Comparisons of Chi Chu Art Museum and Zhangyan Cultural Center Against the Background of Rural Revitalization

The co-existence between excellent experimental buildings and the surroundings is one of important engines for promoting regeneration of new functions of the cultural heritage and the prosperity of cultural tourism economy, as well as an important booster for rural revitalization.Chi Chu Art Museum on Choku Island, Japan and Zhangyan Cultural Center in Qingpu District, Shanghai are both typical cases of promoting rural cultural tourism economy through experimental buildings, which has played a critical leading role in local rural culture revitalization and rural cultural tourism construction. By comparative analysis for the two cases on integration of buildings with surroundings, design styles, organization of architecture spaces and intervention of arts in rural areas, the commonality for experimental buildings and artistry of in rural construction in rural revitalization was summarized and the thoughts for rural revitalization construction, planning and layout were presented.