The Guangzhou Sun Plaza ——广州太阳系广场

The Guangzhou international biology island is a new science and technology development zone led by biological industry. Sun Plaza is an integral part of the technology and service system on the island, which greatly promotes the general environment image of the biology island. Situated at the island center near Guanshan watercourse, Sun Plaza is on the same axis with the campus city across the river. The site area is 107,076 sqm in all, and the building area is 73,000 sqm.

Sun Plaza is the center of the sceneries, meetings, exhibitions, technologies, and services on the international biology island, and it will make another landmark for Guangzhou city by the time of completion. Considering the existing situation of Sun Plaza, we seek to enhance the function of architecture with innovative design which allows the nature and human activities to connect to and interact with each other. Sun Plaza is designed to resemble an undulating surface, where meetings, exhibitions, technologies, and services center are linked up and formed an integral construction.

The architecture floats on the island, making full use of the open space while protecting three ancient ancestral temples in this area: Chengong temple, Huadi temple and Chenshi Dazong temple. The architecture is no longer deemed as an obstruction to the space, in fact, it has developed an open space where the new architecture and cultural relics co-exist in perfect harmony. Sun Plaza consists of nine core tubes, offices, business, meeting, exhibition, scientific research function area, where the concept for independent building is overlooked. The 3-dimensional organization makes it possible for the outdoor open space to be shared while retaining the independence of each single unit. Moreover, the building creates two layers vertically: the ground-level natural landscape system and the upper structure of urban scenery platform. The sceneries and various facilities create a huge garden-like architectural space. People could enter Sun Plaza from all around to experience and enjoy the sharp contrast posed by the old architecture and the new ones, the natural and the artificial sceneries.

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广州国际生物岛是一个以生物产业为主导的高新科技开发区。太阳系广场作为广州国际生物岛技术及服务支撑体系的主要构成部分，有力提升了生物岛的整体环境形象。太阳系广场建设基地位于生物岛中部，邻近官山水道，与广场大学城中心区处于同一轴线上，两者隔江相望。太阳系广场总用地面积107,076平方米，其中广场约占40,000平方米。

太阳系广场是国际生物岛的景观中心、会议展览中心、技术服务和生活服务中心，建成后将成为广州市又一地标性建筑。我们设计的太阳系广场像一片流动起伏的水面，将会议展览中心、技术服务于生活服务中心衔接成一个连续的整体. 太阳系广场由九个核心筒以及办公、商业、会展、科研四大功能区组成，单体建筑的概念在这里被淡化了。

这是一个立体的组织方式，不但在平面上实现了各自的独立和室外公共空间的共享，而且在立体空间关系上创造了两个层面：地面的自然景观系统和上层的城市尺度的建筑景观平台。建筑以开放的姿态漂浮在基地之上, 最大限度的保护和利用了地面原本自然美好的开放空间. 对基地内的三个文物建筑祠堂，观生陈公祠、华帝古庙、陈氏大宗祠不仅仅是简单的保留，更是对古建筑所生存的空间的最大的尊重和继承.建筑不再是空间的一种隔离, 他让地面公共空间最大限度的联系在一起了. 使新老建筑和谐共生。自然与人工景观的紧密结合，同时融入商业及其他附属设施，形成了一个巨大的公园式建筑空间。市民可以从任何方向进入太阳系广场，随时享受所有新旧文化, 自然和人工等带来的强烈对比和反差的多重体验.