A civic performance complex on the Shekou Peninsula in Shenzhen. The project takes its origin from the Lingnan School of painting and its depictions of the South China Sea as layered, overlapping wave forms.
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Reference
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The site is surrounded by sea. The reference is the painted sea.
The site extends into Shenzhen Bay, with water on three sides and views toward the city, bridge, mountains and Hong Kong. The Lingnan School of painting, rooted in Guangdong Province, records the South China Sea as a dense field of curved, overlapping forms. That painted logic became the origin of the canopy: not a picture of waves, but a structural field derived from them.
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System
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The canopy is a field of cable nets.
A series of cable nets is suspended from curved beams and slender columns above the garden, plaza and performance volumes. Each net supports triangular glazed and aluminium panels that control shade and light. Beneath the canopy are four performance halls arranged around a covered public garden. The outer envelopes of the halls are drum-shaped volumes clad in perforated aluminium panels, calibrated for Shenzhen’s subtropical monsoon climate and for views back to the bay.
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Resolution
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A public garden held beneath a painted sea.
The roofscape extends the logic of overlapping waves from the coastline into the building. The garden can operate independently of the performance programme, allowing visitors to move through the canopy and toward the water without a ticket. Structure, climate, public access and cultural reference are carried by the same system.
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