Project Directors: Jiang Ling, Zheng Ying, Zhu Jialin
Designers: Ding Yu, Chen Yaoguang, Lin Dong, Zhong Qiao, Tang Doudou, Wu Sibei | Liu Zirong, Wei Yan, Li Hao, Zhang Xiaoyi, Cui Baoyi
Located in one of the most densely populated areas of downtown Shenzhen, the Public Art Plaza is a program initiated by both the city administrator and the architect. Under the program, this once shabby parking lot will be converted into a semi-underground parking garage integrated with arts programs such as outdoor display area, gallery, bookshop, cafe, artist studio, and lecture hall.
The whole complex is composed of an elongated gallery along the north border of the site, a sloped parking garage in the east, a series of walls and shallow ponds defining the west edge of the plaza, and a glassy box gallery at the southwest corner. Reinforced concrete is used throughout the project to form continuously floating and folding surfaces to shape both the indoor galleries and outdoor display area, and to frame the views of the surrounding city fragments.
Sculpted deeply into the ground, the building stretches horizontally to the outermost corners of the site. The flat surface of the site is remolded, folded, fractured, and warped to create new urban geography. The whole plaza is divided into different geographic zones, like hillside, stream, dry land and green slopes in response to the built geometry and the designated specific events. The design tries to blur the boundary of contrasting elements, such as building and plaza, indoor and outdoor, roof and ground, etc.
This project will provide an open public forum for both artists and the general public. The artificial landscape with maximum flexibility helps to define different zones for specific events. It also encourages artists to design site specific sculptures and installations.
Credits and Data:
Project Location: Chunfeng Rd. & Nanji Rd., Luohu District, Shenzhen
Project Period: 2000-2007
Project Status: Completed
Site Area: 8,698㎡
Floor Area: 5,593㎡
Building Storey: 2
Building Height: 10.85m
Client: Luohu Bureau of Construction Works
LDI Collaborators: Jiang Hongwei Liao E’xian and Team
Publications：
Meng Yan, Liu Xiaodu, Wang Hui. Intervening the City: Strategy and Construction of Shenzhen Public Art Plaza.TA 2007(7):124-131
Meng Yan, Yao Dongmei. Shenzhen Public Art Plaza: Urban Landscape Series 2. TA 2002(5) 65-68
Nicolai Ouroussoff. “In Modern China, ‘Little Kingdoms’ for the People.” [N]. The New York Times. 2008-10-13.
张轶伟.日常生活的启示—罗湖公共艺术广场的建成后研究.新建筑“城市显微”专辑2015(4) 102-105
滕琪. 深圳市公共艺术广场：以‘介入城市’的姿态舞蹈. 建科之声, 2008(7): 32-37
