John McAslan & Partners to design a botanical gardens and research centre China

John McAslan's botanical garden design for Dongguan

John McAslan’s botanical garden design for Dongguan

John McAslan & Partners has been commissioned to design a botanical gardens and research centre in the Chinese city of Dongguan.

The design features a gridshell roof connecting with a mounded base which managing director Tony Skipper said was a “natural progression” from the practice’s concourse at London’s King’s Cross station.

A variety of tropical habitats will be disaplayed beneath ethylene tetrafluoroethylene roof panels, based on a two-metre grid.

“The botanical gardens will provide a constantly changing scenery of habitats, sub-tropical rare plants, ravines, water and sky,” said Skipper.

The scheme, for developer Vanke, was based on “a contemporary interpretation of the essential characteristics of a tropical plant leaf structure”, he added.

Aerial view of John McAslan's botanical garden design for Dongguan

Aerial view of John McAslan’s botanical garden design for Dongguan

Exploded view of John McAslan's botanical garden design for Dongguan

Exploded view of John McAslan’s botanical garden design for Dongguan

This story first appeared on Building Design.

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