Tengyuan Design's Rizhao Ocean Park unfolds from an elevated aerial vantage that reveals the masterful integration of architectural forms with coastal landscape, presenting a sweeping panoramic compos

Tengyuan Design's Rizhao Ocean Park demonstrates a sweeping architectural composition photographed during the blue hour, when the sky presents a gradated field of cobalt and cerulean deepening toward

Tengyuan Design's Ocean Park presents a commanding architectural composition captured through a dramatic low-angle perspective that emphasizes the soaring verticality and dynamic geometric interplay o

Crystalline curtain walls rise in rhythmic waves, their modular glazing panels reflecting cerulean sky and verdant foreground in a composition balanced between architectural monumentality and environm

Tengyuan Design's Ocean Park demonstrates an architectural composition of exceptional geometric sophistication, where a dramatic faceted canopy of translucent white membrane panels rises in angular, c

Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2020

Rizhao Ocean Park

by Tengyuan Design

A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Awarded April 15, 2020
CLIENT: Tengyuan Design
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About Rizhao Ocean Park

Rizhao is an ocean park that combines an aquarium with a plant and bird park. The design was inspired by the golden sea surface at sunrise. A non-linear parametric method shapes soft patterns that recall ripples on the water. The aquarium facade is clad in golden perforated aluminum panels, while the plant and bird park is enclosed by a glass curtain wall. A spherical single-layer grid skylight with a span of 40 meters crowns the aquarium, and natural light reaches more than 60 percent of the water body. Visiting routes and pools are interspersed to create varied exhibition spaces.

Tengyuan Design's Ocean Park represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary recreational architecture, demonstrating how visionary design can forge meaningful dialogue between built environment and natural coastal setting. The complex appears to engage with traditions of organic architecture and parametric design that seek forms resonating with natural geometries while employing advanced structural systems. The elliptical latticed pavilion suggests inspiration from marine organisms, perhaps evoking the protective architecture of shells, coral formations, or the skeletal structures of sea creatures, translating biological logic into architectural expression. Adjacent to this, the cylindrical aquarium tower with its warm metallic banding and transparent glazing creates a complementary formal counterpoint, its rounded form echoing the curvilinear vocabulary that unifies the composition. The landscape architecture demonstrates thoughtful integration, with verdant planted areas, water features visible as blue accents, and circulation paths that invite exploration and discovery. The siting along the coastline positions visitors in direct relationship with the ocean environment the complex celebrates, while the infrastructure of parking and access roads accommodates contemporary visitation patterns without compromising the experiential journey. Technical accomplishment is evident in the complex structural engineering required for the spanning lattice dome and the precision cladding systems of the cylindrical volume. The chromatic relationships between architectural surfaces and natural environment suggest careful material selection that acknowledges regional character while asserting contemporary identity. One might consider how such complexes serve as threshold spaces between urban life and marine ecosystems, inviting contemplation of humanity's relationship with oceanic environments.

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Unique Properties: It is the first new-type marine park that integrates the aquarium and the plant and bird park, which has a huge exhibition pool with a volume of 5,000 tons and a spectacular sky flower sea. A novel biological exhibition method is adopted for the Sunshine Aquarium. In the Aquarium, more than 60% of the water body is covered by natural light, which is rarely seen in the entire world.
Dimensions & Packaging: Rizhao Ocean Park is located within the Olympic Water Park, with the East China Sea on its west. It covers an area of 161.7 mu, and a total area of 49976.58 square meters and has a total investment of 900 million yuan. It is a leading tourist project of Rizhao, and comprises the Sunshine Aquarium and Four Season Flower and Bird Park as two highlights, and Bird Theater, Waterfowl World, Children's Kingdom and many other interesting outdoor sightseeing spots.
Tags: Architecture, Ocean Park, Culture Center, Exhibition, Oriental Elements, Natural
Production Technology: The virtual interaction of different modules is introduced into the aquarium design, so as to express the remarkable tension of the sea waves. In terms of surface treatment, golden perforated aluminum plate has been chosen. The plant and bird park is mainly made of glass curtain wall. The architectural elements on the external facade are like veins of a leaf, and the entire plant and bird park is like a leaf lying silently a beach with plenty of sunshine.
Design Challenge: A number of water bodies of various shapes and forms are complicatedly correlated. In order not to obstruct line of sight and the flow line, cantilevered stairway and large cantilevered stands are provided in different places within the aquarium. At the entrance of the aquarium, there is a Z-shaped post and batter post and other unconventional structures, so as to exhibit the purity of the facades and indoor spaces, and achieve a unity between architectural innovation and structural innovation.
Project Duration: The project started in October 1, 2015 in Rizhao and finished in July 20, 2018 in Rizhao.
Operation Flow: The visiting route and water body within the aquarium are interspersed, creating a diversified exhibition space with rich content. Its top side is a skylight of the spherical single-layer grid structure with a span of 40 meters. Furthermore, ground assembly and one-time hoisting and installation are allowed.
Research: Rizhao Ocean Park is a comprehensive cultural tourism project integrating tourism, leisure and entertainment and business. The parameter-based non-linear design has been adopted to form tender graphics, which look like the ripples on the surface of the sea when a breeze blows over. The resultant aquarium looks vivid and lifelike in terms of its form, structure and appearance as waterfront buildings.Copyrights belong to Name Surname, Year.
Inspiration: The Project is located in the coast area in each China, where the sun sheds its first light onto the earth. It is also the cradle of sun culture of China. The concept of the Project is inspired by the golden sea surface when the sun starts to rise, and the Project is designed as a salute to the generosity of the ocean, and as a respect to the energetic marine life with the language of architecture.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Chen Chen, Top View, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Chen Chen, Sunshine Aquarium, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Chen Chen, Sunshine Aquarium 2, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Chen Chen, Four Season Flower and Bird Park, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Chen Chen, Architectural Appearance Details, 2018.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Tengyuan Design, 2018.

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