Located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, Haimen is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the East and the Yangtze River in the south, facing Shanghai across the river. Its name came from the “The Sea and River Gateway”. Haimen is the hinterland of Wu Yue culture and the hometown of Chinese rice culture.
Haimen Yungu Agricultural Exhibition Hall is located here. Like a large number of investors and architects who have poured into the countryside in recent years, the design team of this project is also faced with the historical choice of returning to the native land or making innovation.
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The Agricultural Exhibition Hall is located at the southernmost end of Haimen Spring Breeze Lantian Town, the first ecological farm in China. It is surrounded by crisscross paths, dense water networks, and unique landscape resources. The Agricultural Exhibition Hall is also the leading architecture and spiritual center of the town. The architectural motif is derived from the “warehouse” image of agricultural civilization. Its appearance is like a square box lying in the field, simple and atmospheric. The inner core is a circular silo, which means “square warehouse and round yard”. It not only implies the Legalist concept of “knowing etiquette in a warehouse, knowing honor and disgrace insufficient food and clothing”, but also conforms to the construction of spiritual civilization in the new era.
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The scheme breaks the conventional...