Shenzhen, China
In Fucheng street in the Longhua District of Shenzhen adjacent to the Meilin expressway is the 16.8-hectare long park formerly known as Guanlan People’s Park, now called Shenzhen Civil Code Park, designed by PMA (PolyMorph Architects) for Longhua District Municipal Administration.
After taking into account the current landscape resources and structure, the architects proposed the design based on the space anchor of the first year of civil law and organized three international workshops to demonstrate and optimize the plan.
Through the main entrance square, civil law calendar axis, central activity area, outdoor theater, civil law ring and civil law museum, inner lake water system, civil law subdivision, and other landscape nodes, the park creates a multi-level space, while conveying the theme of civil law and providing ample room for public activities.
The Shenzhen Civil Code Park has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The ‘civil ring’ highlights the motif of the circle symbolizing the core spirit of the civil code and is suspended and integrated into the mountain.
While highlighting the theme of civil law, it creates a rich sense of place and sublimates the spirit of the site.
The main statue of the civil law projection center symbolizes the core of civil law protection: civil rights.
Combined with the site features along the way, the circular air corridor exhibits the six basic principles of civil law in different sections, including: the principle of equality, the principle of voluntariness, the principle of fairness, and the principle of good faith, by means of sculpting landscape details and interactive devices.
The civil law museum is located on the north side of the civil law ring.
It is protected under the civil law ring corridor by taking advantage of the mountain’s steep slope and reinforcing it.
The whole building block is divided into two sections by the atrium, which is combined with the transparent glass facade to reduce the pressure on the surrounding environment.
The atrium’s folding staircase is connected to the civil circular corridor, allowing visitors to move freely between the roof floor, inside, and outside.
In front of the building are the park’s ecological lake and outdoor theater.
As the most cohesive hinterland space on the site, it also forms the natural shared living room of the whole Civil Code Ring Park, where citizens can enjoy a variety of leisure activities.
Project: Shenzhen Civil Code Park
Architects: PMA (PolyMorph Architects)
Design Team: Chuan Wang, Xiaoyi Teng, Yujun Zou, Lingwei Wan, Ziyun Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Rui Chen, Qiran Zhang, Ying Mu, Zhao Jiang, Haitao Ma, Jintong Li, Pingshan Qu, Luoluo Li, Ting Xu, Kai Gao, Huan Liu, Guo Miu, Harshdeep Arora, Shail Paragkumar Patel, Zorzi Giovanni, Teskov Filip Svetoslavov, Pilar Menendez, and Chen Chen
General Contractor: China Resources (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Client: Longhua District Municipal Administration
Photographers: Arch-Exist Photography
