Wuhan Optics Valley National Bio-Industry Exhibition Center (i.e. Wuhan Bio-City) is located in Wuhan East Lake National Innovation Demonstration Zone, which is the second national industrial base built by China Optics Valley with the idea of "100 billion industry", focusing on biomedicine, biomedical engineering, bio-agriculture, precision diagnosis and treatment, intelligent medical care, bio-services and other fields to build a bio-industry new city integrating R&D, incubation, production, logistics and living. It is a new bio-industrial city integrating R&D, incubation, production, logistics and living.
As the landmark building in the center of Optics Valley Biopolis, the exhibition center integrates external display, promotion, investment, negotiation and office functions, and is located between the entrance square and the central lake. In order to express the strong symbolic meaning of the building in the limited land area, we adopted the architectural design technique of highlighting the overall sense and enlarging the scale of the building, and introduced the concept of sculpture in the shape and texture to shape the strong visual perception of the landmark building.
The overall volume of the exhibition center is a multi-faceted hexagonal shape, which presents a changing visual appearance when viewed from different angles. The small square on the west side is raised by one level to increase the volume of the building and to create a sense of upward movement. In addition, we designed a series of inclined surfaces in the roof and overhanging spaces to make the whole building "float".
A light beige wood-grained stone finish is used throughout the building, which is hung diagonally at 16° to form a geometric shape inside the facade, with slit joints between the facades to wrap the building in a sculptural and powerful way.
We also designed open glass curtain walls on the west and south sides of the first floor to break the cold, solid shell of the building and make the "big floating box" slightly softer, allowing the circulation of indoor and outdoor spaces and views, creating a connection and dialogue between the building and its surroundings and the central lake.