INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION
AND DESIGN
SHENZHEN
CHINA, 2021-2023
EDUCATION
PR–599
Perched on the mountainside of the city of Shenzhen, the Institute of Innovation and Design has been designed as a city-landscape.
MEDIAS
032
PROGRAM
The campus of the Institute of Innovation and Design is designed as a large university village and includes classrooms and laboratories, office space for administration and teaching staff, a library, an auditorium, sports facilities, an exhibition space, catering facilities, accommodation for students and teaching staff, and technical and logistical areas.
Situation
Bao’an Education City, Fenghuangshan Creative Park, Shenzhen, China
Year
2021-2023
Status
International competition, winning project, no follow-up
Project area
300 000 m²
Project management
Engineering Design Management Center of Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen, Municipality, Shenzhen
Project implementation
Dominique Perrault Architecte
Associate architect
Zhubo Design Co
Interior architect and design
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
Landscape architect
PWP Landscape Architecture
Engineering
BuroHappold Engineering
DESCRIPTION
Taking the form of a vast French-style park, the building unfolds across the site through an intertwining of terraces and patios, connected by a network of intersecting pathways. On the border between wild forest and urban fabric, this large university “village” blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, between study space and living space.
People move around it as they would in a park, relax there as they would in a refuge, and learn there as they would in an agora. The whole forms a lived-in map, a place in harmony with the landscape, to the point of dissolving into the surrounding nature, a radical way of thinking about a campus: inhabiting nature and letting it inhabit the city.
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