The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing is located in a cemetery environment with rich historical and cultural heritage. On the west side is the main entrance of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, on the south slope is a music stage designed by Mr. Yang Tingbao in the 1930s, and on the east side is the Linggu Temple. Such a unique geographical location and exhibition hall function endow the building with more commemorative colors.
Before the renovation, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall was known as the Jialin building, built in 1992 as a three-story reinforced concrete frame building. After the renovation, the interior was restored to a large space, and the protruding parts on the facade were removed. The memorial hall does not emphasize its own personalized expression, but conveys the sense of the times through modern facade forms and materials. The building uses ceramic panels as facade materials and embeds glass curtain walls at the solid wall partitions, distinguishing them from the surrounding historical buildings by the modern style. At the same time, the natural clay fired ceramic panels form a natural warm gray color tone, similar to the surrounding buildings, with material coordination in comparison. The building has no excessive decoration on the outside, and the overall appearance forms a sense of stability, solemnity, simplicity, and timelessness with the environment.
The cloister of light steel structure in the south of the square shuttles between sycamore trees, forming the intention of screen wall in traditional buildings, placing the original monotonous square space into the function of rest, publicity and display, enriching people's activities and space connotation.