Indoor tropical conservatory with a glass and steel dome, lush palm trees, and visitors strolling along a landscaped path.
Greenhouse Ganzhou
China
  • Cultural
  • Greenhouse
  • Study

The greenhouse is the key part of a larger area connected to the experience of nature and leisure.

It's significant crystal shape reinterprets the surrounding landscape and merges as a symbolic form of nature with the tropical vegetation it contains, both being precious therefore worth protecting.

 

Address
Ganzhou
China

Study
02/ 2019

Project manager
Ernesto Mulch

Project team
Toni Nachev
Thomas Peter-Hindelang

Visualization
Toni Nachev

CONSULTANTS

Coordination
Yiju Ding

Structural engineering
Bollinger+Grohmann

Rough sketch of cross-hatched pyramids rising from a barren desert plain.

Concept sketch

Aerial view of a forest resort with glass-roofed buildings along a winding waterway; Greenhouse, Tea House, Restaurant, Wedding/Conference.
Glass pyramid pavilion in a park beside a pond; a person with backpack walks along a path toward it.
Two abstract, translucent polygonal-panel structures around a central axis; left stacked, right crossed by blue lines.

Crystal / Canyon

Two diagrams: left shows abstract geometric shapes with orange lines; right shows a map-like land parcel with a red looping path inside a black boundary.

Crystal Landscape / Natural Landscape

Indoor glass-domed conservatory with tropical palms; visitors stroll along a path beneath a soaring glass atrium.
Cross-section of a glass-roofed pavilion with an indoor garden and trees; visitors walk through the space.

Section AA

Aerial architectural site plan of a modern building complex with landscaped courtyard and a winding river.

Floor plan level L1

Site plan of a multi-level angular building with terraced gardens and winding paths beside a river in a wooded landscape.

Floor plan level L2

Top-down site plan of a multi-wing building with angular roofs, surrounded by trees; a river lies to the right with red dashed circulation paths.

Siteplan Greenhouse

Modern architectural complex across a pond, with a wooden deck and fire-pit seating; people relax under a shaded pergola beside water.
People on a spacious wooden terrace in front of glass pyramid architecture, with a timber-clad building on the right.
Visitors walk and socialize in a modern outdoor campus plaza with wooden buildings and trees.
Glass pyramid building with triangular panes in a grassy plaza; people walk a central path toward low modern structures, trees, and open field.

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