▲ Project Overview
The 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Expo Park spans 960 hectares along the Guihe River in Beijing’s Yanqing District. Within this vast space, the Shanghai Exhibition Park occupies 2,850 square meters in the China Horticultural Exhibition Area, neighboring the China Pavilion and Beijing Exhibition Park.
▲ Project Location
Representing Shanghai’s horticultural excellence, Shanghai Garden embodies the city’s finest garden design. Its theme, “Auspicious Clouds,” symbolizes blessings and prosperity, conveyed through landscape gardening that evokes the imagery of “auspicious clouds bringing good fortune and rain nourishing all life.” The garden is divided into six main zones: Yunjie, Yunying, Yunshang, Yungang, Yunchao, and Yunwu. Beyond showcasing horticultural achievements, the park reflects Shanghai’s distinctive garden culture and local character.
▲ Site Plan
▲ Overall Bird’s-Eye View
The layout of Shanghai Garden is thoughtfully designed to meet the needs of exhibition visitors. The space transitions from dense, closed areas to open landscapes, from outdoor to indoor environments, natural to artificial elements, and flat to three-dimensional spaces, creating a variety of distinctive landscape experiences.
Visitors can explore three different levels of pathways, including ground-level trails, aerial cloud bridges, and cloud ravines, offering diverse perspectives of the garden’s beauty. This design immerses visitors in a sea of flowers, enriching their experience throughout the park.
▲ Aerial View Above the Entrance
The park features a series of distinctive scenic spots, including “Cloud Steps,” “Cloud Clothing,” “Cloud Hill,” “Cloud Nest,” “Cloud Dock,” and “Cloud Shadow.” Enhanced by misty atmospheric effects, these elements create a unique experience of “living in and strolling through the clouds.”
▲ Entrance Theme
▲ Garden Entrance
▲ Entrance Night Scene (BIM Work)
▲ Overall Bird’s-Eye View
▲ Partial Garden View
The design of Shanghai Garden draws inspiration from traditional painting techniques such as blending, ink splashing, pointillism, smearing, and brush withering to depict diverse textures in ground cover plant landscapes.
It also incorporates newly cultivated, high-quality horticultural varieties unique to Shanghai, organized into nine distinctive plant display areas. These areas, centered around key backbone trees, showcase continuous flowering periods and form the garden’s core highlights.
▲ Cloud Stage
▲ Yunshang
▲ Cloud Robe Overlooking Cloud Nest
▲ Cloud Edge Seating
▲ Yungang
▲ View of Yungang from Yunshang
Vertical greening techniques are extensively applied to recreate Shanghai’s iconic skyline along both sides of the Pujiang River using living plants. This design not only symbolizes Shanghai’s urban identity but also represents the harmonious dialogue and integration between past and present, East and West.
▲ Flower Display
▲ Sculpture in the Park
Succulent wall displays and hanging greenery enhance both indoor spaces and outdoor railings, enriching the visitor experience and showcasing Shanghai’s distinctive green planting techniques. The entrance is accented by pine tree forms, reminiscent of bonsai in classical gardens, harmoniously integrated with modern floral mirrors and ornamental grasses to reflect a fusion of Eastern and Western garden art.
▲ Cloud Nest
▲ Inside the Cloud Nest
▲ Yunwu
▲ Yunwu and Yungang
▲ Cloud Shadow
▲ Cloud Shadow Steps
Project Information
Design Company: Huajian Group Architectural Decoration Environment Design and Research Institute
Location: China Horticultural Axis East China Group C30 booth, Yanqing District, Beijing, China
Category: Exhibition Hall
Lead Architects: Shi Hao, Wang Qing
Design Team: Yang Chenchen, Qiu Jijin, Chen Min, Huang Jialing, Wang Yuchen, Liu Li, Xu Xin, Tang Fengjuan, Chen Zhiru, Wei Pinyou, Qiu Chenlu, Qian Dong, Li Xingqiao, Yu Chao, Fei Jingbo
Construction Party: Shanghai Greening Management Guidance Station
Building Area: 2,850 square meters
Project Year: 2019
Photographer: Cui Xufeng
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