Shenzhen, Stock Exchange Gardens, Inside Outside, 2013
Since the cultural exchange between the Chinese and Western cultures in the 16th century and the translation of the great Chinese classics into European languages in the 17th century, Confucianism has greatly inspired western philosophy. This exchange is visualized in the Sino-European garden where European geometry is combined with the studied asymmetry of the Chinese garden. This design considers the Stock Exchange building and its gardens as a place where this mentality of merging cultures and ages could be rendered in a contemporary manner. By interweaving building and garden, interior and exterior, public and private information and art, aesthetics and function the design concept aims to integrate the past, present and future.
