"The Shadow Garden" of World Horticulture Expo in Yangzhou

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"The Shadow Garden" of World Horticulture Expo in Yangzhou

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ARCHITECTS
OfficeOffCourse

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Yangzhou, China

CATEGORY
Cultural › Pavilion

The building is one of the five satellite pavilions located in the first completed phase of 2021 World Horticulture Expo site in Yangzhou.

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Based on the scheme this expo which reflects the beauty of local landscape and plants as well as its programmatic requirement which is an educational place, the design is generating a new relationship between landscape and architecture.

Three bar-like buildings are divided by a continuous wall which follows the contour of existing condition.

As a result, not only every program has courtyard and its unique layout, but also numerous gardens come into being, each of which has its particular language in scale, spectrum and vegetation.

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Considering the life after the Expo, the design is seeking to explore a new architecture organizational way that is highly flexible, changeable and mixed-use but at the same time allows independence and privacy of each room with its own connection with a designated landscape.

Programs are no longer defined by its location and circular, but by the theme of landscape which bonding them.

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In this design, we establish a dialog between nature and man-made environment, in which, a similar but uncanny connection is created.

A special washed granolithic finish is used to simulate the complex texture and vitality of nature, in order to produce a different kind of natural environment.

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Such landscape operations successfully meet the programmatic challenge meanwhile offers many new ways of seeing landscape as a part of architecture from time to time.


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