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Shenzhen Guangming International Equestrian Center
Shenzhen Guangming International Equestrian Center
Shenzhen, China
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Shenzhen Guangming International Equestrian Center
Shenzhen, China
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
Guangming International Equestrian Center, located in Guangming Subdistrict, Guangming District, Shenzhen, serves as the main venue for dressage and show jumping events of the 15th National Games. The project occupies a site area of 50,018 m², with a total floor area of 44,600 m². Its functions include the main arena, indoor and outdoor training grounds, competition facilities, and equine housing, accommodating up to 120 horses.
The site slopes significantly from the urban road on the west to the natural mountain on the east. The design leverages these conditions by placing a stilted parking garage along the road and elevating the main activity spaces to minimize excavation and preserve the mountain landscape.
The main arena’s design concept, “A New Realm of Timber, Shared Eaves, Shared Views”, adopts a full glulam (glued laminated timber) structure. Its form draws from the traditional Chinese sloped roof typology—retaining the archetypal timber frame while projecting unconventional volumetric presence. The resulting densely layered, radiating beam system reveals the logic of architectural structure and reinterprets timber aesthetics in a modern context, expressing both structural clarity and cultural depth.
The venue is designed to be open and inviting, encouraging user interaction and exploration. It transforms guided viewing into immersive experience, supporting active engagement with equestrian culture. The spatial arrangement creates a series of connected yet independent courtyard-like zones that evoke the history of Lingnan’s vernacular architecture.
At ground level, various corridors of different scales connect spaces across multiple elevations. Light, wind, and landscape penetrate the building through these openings, allowing serendipitous encounters between people and the elements. This interplay reinforces a Chinese cultural atmosphere and creates a rich, multi-sensory experience. The design emphasizes emotional resonance and cultural expression, reinterpreting tradition to meet contemporary cultural needs.
The architecture integrates form and structure, achieving transparency and interaction between interior and exterior. The continuous, lightweight façade accentuates the hovering eaves, reinforcing regional cultural identity. Beneath these shared eaves, the mountain, wind, light, shadow, people, and horses coexist—symbiotic and perceptive, in harmony with nature.
The site slopes significantly from the urban road on the west to the natural mountain on the east. The design leverages these conditions by placing a stilted parking garage along the road and elevating the main activity spaces to minimize excavation and preserve the mountain landscape.
The main arena’s design concept, “A New Realm of Timber, Shared Eaves, Shared Views”, adopts a full glulam (glued laminated timber) structure. Its form draws from the traditional Chinese sloped roof typology—retaining the archetypal timber frame while projecting unconventional volumetric presence. The resulting densely layered, radiating beam system reveals the logic of architectural structure and reinterprets timber aesthetics in a modern context, expressing both structural clarity and cultural depth.
The venue is designed to be open and inviting, encouraging user interaction and exploration. It transforms guided viewing into immersive experience, supporting active engagement with equestrian culture. The spatial arrangement creates a series of connected yet independent courtyard-like zones that evoke the history of Lingnan’s vernacular architecture.
At ground level, various corridors of different scales connect spaces across multiple elevations. Light, wind, and landscape penetrate the building through these openings, allowing serendipitous encounters between people and the elements. This interplay reinforces a Chinese cultural atmosphere and creates a rich, multi-sensory experience. The design emphasizes emotional resonance and cultural expression, reinterpreting tradition to meet contemporary cultural needs.
The architecture integrates form and structure, achieving transparency and interaction between interior and exterior. The continuous, lightweight façade accentuates the hovering eaves, reinforcing regional cultural identity. Beneath these shared eaves, the mountain, wind, light, shadow, people, and horses coexist—symbiotic and perceptive, in harmony with nature.
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