太原植物园丨中国太原

Firm： Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

Type： Hospitality + Sport › Zoo/Aquarium Landscape + Planning › Private Garden Urban Green Space

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2020

SIZE： 100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET： Undisclosed

Coordination: Yiju Ding

Structural engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure

Structural engineer – timber structures: StructureCraft

Façade: Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure

HVACR/ Electrics: Cody Energy Design

Landscape Design: Valentien+Valentien, Landschaftsarchitekten und, Stadtplaner SRL

The new Taiyuan Botanical Garden Domes complex in Taiyuan, China features 3 domes ranging from 43m to 88m in diameter and from 12m to 30m in height. The largest of the three domes is the longest clear-span timber gridshell (non-triangulated) in the world. All three parabolic gridshells comprise light doubly curved glulam beams, arranged in two or three crossing layers.

Bonsai Museum

Another highlight of the Botanical Garden is the Bonsai Museum, designed as a rotated bowl integrated into the park’s topography, a welcoming arena for the plants‘ display.

Restaurant Tea-House

The Restaurant is designed in resemblance to the Chinese Traditional Temples, evoking the wooden structures as its design premise. After a few studies trying to potentiate the structure into a contemporary and reasonable basis, a shifted grid made from stacked timber beams was established as the main conductor of a very attractive and atmospheric space. Incorporated into the landscape, for one side, the restaurants geometry detaches itself from it, extending opening up to the lake.

Research Centre

The Research Centre houses laboratories, studios, office spaces, workshop and meeting rooms, lecture halls as well as a library. In order to maximize its function, the program is divided into separate buildings, connected by an interior path along the ground floor.

StructureCraft:

The new Taiyuan Botanical Garden Domes complex in Taiyuan, China features 3 domes ranging from 43m to 88m in diameter and from 12m to 30m in height. The largest of the three domes is the longest clear-span timber gridshell (non-triangulated) in the world. All three parabolic gridshells comprise light doubly curved glulam beams, arranged in two or three crossing layers.