Songshan Lake Science + Technology Convention Center

Role: Planner, Designer

Type: Culture, Experience Design, Tech + Innovation Center, Performing Arts, Convention Center, Hotel

Morphosis

Description

The Songshan Lake Science and Technology Convention Center represents the new “renaissance” campus, weaving art, science, technology, nature, and business together to spark the next century’s breakthrough ideas. The proposal for the campus begins from this concept, exploring the theme of a contrasting interplay between art and performance, landscape and building, and man-made and natural. Nestled within the natural topography of the lake island, the campus emerges through a choreographed series of views to nature and architectural form, framing the Songshan Lake and surrounding landscape as a dramatic stage for high-ranking conferences, international meetings, and events. This celebration of nature is also reflected in the performance goals of the campus; as much as possible, the natural landscape is undisturbed and protected, with design strategies that enhance the purity of the surrounding water, air, and soil. As a result, the campus elevates Songshan Lake Science City to an international level, offers a new model for global innovation hubs as sites for aspirational relationships between nature, culture, and human achievement.