CULTURAL PALACE

SHENZHEN WORKING PEOPLE’S CULTURAL PALACE
CULTURAL, CIVIC

Client Confidential
Location Luohu District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Program Cultural exchange and exhibition, sports facilities, education, offices, park, cafés, auditorium
Area 100,900 m² / 1,086,079 ft²
Status Commission, concept design

CULTURE MEETS NATURE ALONG THE BUJI RIVER

The very success of Shenzhen’s rapid development has created a new threat to its center: isolation. Through the erosion of nature and the proliferation of infrastructural barriers, the Dongmen Commercial Circle has been cut off from the People’s Park to the north and the residential neighborhoods to the west.

Our proposal undoes this isolation by liberating the Buji River from its concrete confinement. The elevated Ren Min Gong Yuan Lu is placed below ground, reconnecting the city to the river, while new pedestrian streets, courtyards, and alleyways extend from Dongmen to the waterfront and seven new bridges span the river.

Conceived as a series of stepped and stacked garden terraces, the Cultural Palace stacks, disperses, and mixes culture, art, sports, and public services into an intimate, porous urban fabric, legible from all directions as a new landmark for the greater Buji River basin.

A BOTANICAL GARDEN IN THREE DIMENSIONS

The People’s Park and the surrounding ecological zones climb up and through the Cultural Palace, creating over 5 hectares of new public space on terraced platforms, courtyards, and alleyways planted with native flora.

A RIVER THAT WORKS LIKE A SPONGE

By widening and shifting the Buji River, new terraces and wetlands enhance flood control and stormwater retention, while stitching the residential neighborhoods to the west back to the heart of Luohu.

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