深圳改革开放展览馆丨中国深圳丨藤本壮介建筑事务所,陈东华工作室

Sou Fujimoto reveals Shenzhen exhibition hall, designed as “gardens within a box”

Sou Fujimoto Architects

has unveiled their design for the

Shenzhen

Reform and Opening-Up Exhibition Hall. Designed in collaboration with Donghua Chen Studio, the exhibition hall is imagined as “gardens within a box” with a village-like indoor space cloaked underneath a multi-layered transparent façade.

The 90,000-square-meter complex is intended as a “window” into Shenzhen, displaying and publicizing the city’s achievements over recent decades. The exhibition hall will serve many roles: a site welcoming guests to the city, an institution collecting research materials, a landmark to signify Shenzhen’s innovative and international brand, and a carrier for the showcasing of Shenzhen’s culture and people.

“The natural elegance of the project emphasizes the harmonious relationship between the landscape and its surrounding context, which creates a humble appearance with a village-like fascinating indoor space,” says the design team. “The entire building can be understood as gardens within a box. The openness and transparency of the building also echoes the theme of reform and opening-up. Meanwhile, the multilayered façade system provides a variety of spatial expressions within the changing light.”

The project is the latest in a line of recent high-profile developments in Shenzhen. Last week,

SANAA

unveiled

images of their Shenzhen Maritime Museum

, winning an international competition among major firms including Sou Fujimoto Architects. Last month, meanwhile,

Grimshaw

unveiled their

mango tree-inspired design

for Shenzhen’s international airport and transport hub.

Zaha Hadid Architects

have also unveiled two recent projects for the Chinese megacity: their

competition-winning Tower C

at the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, and their

Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum

. Meanwhile, the designed team was recently selected for the design of

Shenzhen’s Natural History Museum

; comprising

3XN

,

B+H

, and Zhubo Design.