Chinese architects Approach Design has added a new hall to the Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Centre in China and concealed it under a green roof featuring a running track and sports courts.
After originally designing a large latticed structure for the first stage of the convention centre in 2015, demands for more space led to the architects developing a second, adjacent building.
Hangzhou practice Approach Design decided to take a different approach for the new hall, rather than simply build an extension to the original convention centre.
"Just when everyone expected an even larger, iconic building, we designed it as a park," said the studio.
The new nine-metre-high exhibition hall is sunk three metres underground, minimising its profile in the landscape.
To enter the hall, visitors move down steps located under the park.
The park at the Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Centre provides various facilities such as a football field, watchtower, sand pit, studio theatre and community vegetable garden, connected by a 760-metre running track, which protrudes slightly on an elevated walkway.
At one end, a freight ramp leading down to the centre has been used to create a faceted slope designed to encourage skateboarding.
5 сен 2024
