| Background

In the past ten years, Chengdu have continued to grow southward, and various public buildings and houses have been built along with the development of new districts, including various landscape greenways that are also expanding at the edge of the city. This project is located in the greenway of the core area of Chengdu Tianfu New District. A land art in the greenway is constructed through parametric design.

Cloud shadow gallery is located in the Tianfu New District of Chengdu, in the Luxi wisdom valley Greenway next to Xinglong Lake, and is the core landscape node in the wisdom valley Greenway. The main structure of the cloud shadow gallery is a steel structure with a length of 300 meters and a width of 4 meters, which flow among grass, woods and wetlands.

| Design Concept

The cloud shadow gallery spans in a eucalyptus forest. This linearity is an artificial intervention in nature, but the intervention is gentle. It is very difficult to acquire a balance between “impact” and “micro-intervention”, so “restrained intervention” is our design ethics for understanding this place and project.

The concept of light origami is adopted in the design, cutting openings and bending on 1150 wing panels to form fish scale dynamics, traveling through forests and wetlands in a relatively quiet, light and biochemical form, and forming gradual landscape leakage and shelter.

| Material and Technology

The guardrail also adopts digital design and production. The snow-capped mountains around Chengdu is pixelated. The laser-engraved abstractly formed panels are transparent and has better strength and weather resistance. Digital design runs through the whole process, forming the cutting production drawing and laser carving pattern of the wing plate, and guiding the whole process of installation and positioning.

Illumination design uses spotlight, stack lamp, wall wash lamp, spotlight from the inside of the wing and guardrail, forming a warm paper lantern texture, strengthening the dynamic change of the wing, and the image of the guardrail snow mountain.