Wutopia Lab 非作建筑设计上海有限公司

Emerald Screen Pergola

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola

Wutopia Lab

ARCHITECTS
Wutopia Lab

CONSTRUCTION FIRM
Wuxi Taihu Mingzhu Ecological Restoration Co., Ltd

CONSTRUCTION DRAWING DESIGN
Wuxi Culture and Tourism Construction Development Co., Ltd

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Yu Ting

PROJECT ARCHITECT
MU Zhilin

LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Chloe ZHANG

LTD CHIEF PLANNER OF W'ECO DESIGN FESTIVAL
HOU Zhengguang, SUN Qun, XU Yun

CONSTRUCTION DRAWING DESIGN TEAM
CAI Zhongming, SHI Wei

PLANT DESIGN TEAM
SHAO Jie, LI Feiran, ZHANG Licheng

W'ECO DESIGN FESTIVAL PLANNING FIRM
Beijing Keyi Cultural & Creative Enterprise Management Co., Ltd

DESIGN TEAM
FANG Xiaobin, AN Yingjie

CLIENT
Wuxi Cultural Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd

PHOTOGRAPHS
CreatAR lmages

AREA
925 m²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Wuxi, China

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Temporary Installations

A wandering dragon-like Emerald Screen Pergola
Here the frailest leaves of me yet my strongest lasting.

-Walt Whitman

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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In March 2024, Wutopia Lab's wandering dragon-like Emerald Screen Pergola was officially unveiled at Bogong Island Ecology Park in Wuxi, China.

The Emerald Screen Pergola is an important architectural feature in classical Chinese gardens. It is typically constructed from bamboo or wood, forming roofless corridors, pavilions, and walls.

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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Climbing plants are then grown to eventually cover the walls and roofs.

This design not only creates a visual focus that integrates nature with space but also fosters a series of cultural activities related to flowers, making it a significant cultural symbol preserved in traditional Chinese paintings.

However, as a temporary structure, apart from the flower trellises, most other parts have disappeared from the remains of classical gardens.

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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Bogong Island originally had a 1.2-kilometer-long steel trellis covered with wisteria and roses.

Over time, it fell into disrepair and became unsafe, necessitating a reconstruction.

Wutopia Lab used the feather-like shape of leaves as a prototype to create various combinations of wall and roof structures along the 1

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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.2-kilometer stretch. These structures open, close, stand-alone, overlap, and even disappear, redefining the previously monotonous design of the trellis corridor.

The vibrant interplay of light evokes the image of a Dragon Dance, hence the name "A wandering dragon-like Emerald Screen Pergola".

The corridor's structure uses round steel as its framework and is covered with steel meshes painted white for plants to climb. Before the plants climb up, it creates a mist-like visual amidst the beautiful scenery.

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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I decided to design a flower pavilion to serve as both the entrance to the corridor and the park.

Similarly, I stacked the white feather-like steel meshes layer by layer to create a central, roofless structure.

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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This would be my semi-transparent Pantheon. Its completion will also mark the grand reopening of Bogong Island Ecology Park.

The current phase, featuring the white transparent Emerald Screen Pergola and the flower pavilion, marks the first stage.

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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The second stage will see plants climbing the corridor to transform it into a green structure. In the third stage, flowers will bloom, with various colors of ivy, jasmine, roses, honeysuckle, roses, and retained wisteria blossoming in succession.

Thus, this vibrant wandering dragon-like structure will come to life, seemingly ready to take flight in its natural surroundings. This represents Wutopia Lab's commitment to innovatively modernizing traditional designs using contemporary materials and forms.

Emerald Screen Pergola
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Emerald Screen Pergola
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This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is...

-Walt Whitman


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Wutopia Lab 非作建筑设计上海有限公司
Wutopia Lab 非作建筑设计上海有限公司
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