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Sunshine Loft and Moon Pavilion mark the entrances to Hongqiao Park, situated within a lush natural setting. Designed with minimal intervention, both aim to blend into the surrounding landscape.
Sunshine Loft features a meandering flow that connects park paths with interior spaces. The building unfolds like a scroll, guiding visitors through shifting spatial layers while preserving the natural terrain.
Moon Pavilion responds to site contours and tree patterns. A looping walkway links a café and exhibition area, forming courtyards, a rain garden, and viewing terraces. Architecture and nature merge into a continuous, immersive experience.
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Facing an open lake and the park’s signature red bridge, Sunshine Loft responds to the site’s natural slope and circular plot constraints with a gently unfolding circulation route. The design draws visitors in from the park path, linking interior functions such as reading and gathering areas into a continuous spatial flow—extending the park experience into the architecture.
Tucked within a dense lychee grove, Moon Pavilion follows the hillside’s contours. Its restrained grey volume contrasts quietly with the distant red bridge. Transparent spatial layers frame open views of the landscape; the architecture recedes from attention, becoming a place for reflection, light, and wind.
Sunshine Loft adopts a long-span structure supported by just three columns, minimizing site impact while allowing natural ventilation into the open-air theater below. The canopy creates a shaded, rain-sheltered space for rest and gathering. Its perforated folded façade helps regulate light and heat, reducing direct sunlight and enhancing the building’s climatic responsiveness.
Moon Pavilion follows the terrain to house two main functions—café and gallery—on different levels. A garden corridor connects the spaces, channeling lake breezes indoors to lower temperatures. It also provides shelter from sun and rain, reflecting a vernacular approach to the subtropical climate of Lingnan.
Sunshine Loft is envisioned as a vertical garden embedded in the park's natural slope. The fully open ground level extends the public pathway into the building, while prestressed arch slabs lift the ceiling and shape a fluid upper volume, offering both structural clarity and visual lightness. The second floor, suspended from the rooftop frame, houses salons and exhibitions with expansive glazing that captures views of the Rainbow Bridge. The rooftop remains entirely open, offering 360-degree views of the park and distant hills. This vertical sequence—open, semi-private, then open again—embodies the concept of a layered, three-dimensional landscape.
Moon Pavilion unfolds as a “garden of crossing paths,” blending trails, architecture, and greenery. Simple horizontal and vertical masses nestle into the hillside, creating an architecture without dominant façades. Paths wind gently along the terrain, linking the café and gallery through ramps, corridors, and steps. Strategically placed window openings frame shifting scenes—stone courtyards, trees, distant water—drawing on classical garden techniques to enrich spatial depth and invite contemplation in motion.
Sunshine Loft and Moon Pavilion were key venues for the 2024 Shenzhen Guangming International Public Art Season, themed “In Nature.” The fusion of architecture and art strengthened the bond between people, nature, and the environment. Sunshine Loft’s winding paths complemented the artworks, while Moon Pavilion’s serene spaces blended with the landscape. Together, they created a poetic and immersive artistic experience.
NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE), founded in 2004 by Principal Architect Doreen Heng LIU, is one of the most influential independent design studios in South China. Based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, NODE has a team of around 20 architects and designers. The studio focuses on urban space and public life, combining rigorous pragmatism with conceptual openness and compatibility. Its design approach emphasizes ontological research, interdisciplinary exploration, and forward-thinking experimentation. NODE’s recent work spans urban renewal, cross-border infrastructure, public cultural and educational facilities, and small experimental buildings. Rooted in the Pearl River Delta, the studio addresses complex urban dynamics through innovative and context-sensitive architecture.
The name “NODE” originally refers to “Nansha Original Design,” and metaphorically represents a dynamic point of intersection—where possibilities and tendencies converge, always in motion and never fixed.
