The Garden Art Museum of Nanning International Garden Expo
THE GARDEN ART MUSEUM OF NANNING INTERNATIONAL GARDEN EXPO
China Architecture Design & Research Group
LOCATION
Nanning, China
WATER SUPPLY & DRAINAGE DESIGN TEAM
Wanhuan Li, Zhenyuan Gao, Zhiwen Tang, Donghui Yang, Ruyan Guo
CATEGORY
Exhibition Center
AREA
25570 m²
YEAR
2018
PHOTOGRAPHS
Guangyuan Zhang, Songyue Xu, Ji Li
CLIENTS
The Management Center of Nanning Garden EXPO
CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES
China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd.
LIGHTING CONSULTANTS
Beijing Sign Lighting Industry Group
PROJECT MANAGERS
Wenbin Zhao, Junying Zhang, Hongqiang Lei
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN TEAM
Quan Jing, Jingwei Li, Liang Li, Nanwei Wu, Songyue Xu, Hui Guan, Xiaoyun Li, Zhuoyue Ma, Jini Wu, Lixin Shan, Shasha Lou
INTELLIGENT CONTROL
Yi Tang, Lingling Chen, Jing Xu, Junmin Li
PROJECT DIRECTORS
Kai Cui, Quan Jing, Donghai Cui, Jingwei Li
LANDSCAPE DESIGN TEAM
Wenbin Zhao, Huan Liu, Zhe Tan, Zhuojun Liu, Yanwen Wu, Lixiu Shi, Hongtao Wang
CONSTRUCTION DRAWING DESIGN
Ye Gao, Jianqi Lu, Wei Gao, Hongwei Bai
SITE ARCHITECT
Songyue Xu
ECONOMY
Chunhui Ji
STRUCTURAL DESIGN TEAM
Jie Shi, Shule Wangm Hongwei Zheng, Hong Shi, Bingyin Zhu
CURTAIN WALL DESIGN CONSULTANT
Shenzhen Dadi Facade Technology
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Kai Cui, Quan Jing, Liang Li, Songyue Xu, Hui Guan
HVAC DESIGN TEAM
Wusong Han, Zhanshou Song, Shuping Sun, Zheng Xu
MEP DESIGN TEAM
Lei Li, Haipeng Jiang, Suyang Wang, Junmin Li
PLANNING AND LANDSCAPE LEAD ARCHITECT
Cundong Li
Text description provided by architect.
The Garden Art Museum was the main venue of the 12th China (Nanning) International Garden Expo.
There were two small hills on the site, in respect to the existing terrain, the design team embedded the first floor of the building in the hills to minimize its volume, while arranging the small exhibition halls as scattering clusters on the hillsides, which create a unique landscape with strong vernacular features.
A huge steel-structured roof was designed to echo the natural landscape, acting as a shading system covering the clusters and integrating the buildings into nature.
Considering the local climatic conditions, an internal street was designed under the roof as the transition space between the indoor and outdoor spaces, connecting the exhibition clusters and providing relaxing places.
Sunlight and natural ventilation are introduced to create a comfortable environment for the activities.
The boundary between the outdoor and indoor spaces is blurred by taking advantage of the existing terrain and considering both hills as gardens for the exhibition.
Each exhibition hall has a small natural garden for outdoor exhibitions.
This integrated design extends exhibiting space into natural settings, inviting visitors to appreciate the beauty of gardens in the natural environment.
As a building in the landscape, natural and local materials were used as much as possible.
The design celebrates vernacular architectural materials such as rammed earth, rubble, wood, and tile while reusing rescued materials on the site for new constructions.
For instance, crushed stones and red clay were collected and used in the construction of the facades of the main building.
These materials have sound and thermal insulation performance which helps improve the comfort of buildings.
