John McAslan & Partners to design a botanical gardens and research centre China
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 鈥渘atural progression鈥 from the practice鈥檚 concourse at London鈥檚 King鈥檚 Cross station.
A variety of tropical habitats will be disaplayed beneath ethylene tetrafluoroethylene roof panels, based on a two-metre grid.
鈥淭he botanical gardens will provide a constantly changing scenery of habitats, sub-tropical rare plants, ravines, water and sky,鈥 said Skipper.
The scheme, for developer Vanke, was based on 鈥渁 contemporary interpretation of the essential characteristics of a tropical plant leaf structure鈥, he added.
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