Nantong Urban Agricultural Park Scenery Tower // Z-ONE Tech

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In contrast to urban construction, which often uses global grid control, countryside construction usually requires acupuncture intervention. At the time of conceiving landscape tower, we know that the whole park project needs to set up a high point, to activate the south broad space for the field visit, providing the whole ground landscape experience a panoramic view.

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When visitors along the streamline arriving here, without entering the natural world of pure, they can have a place for a nap. The shape of the tower is inspired by a grain of rice, and the circular observation deck at the top adds some surprises to the image and serves as a target clue for the stage.

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When visitors arrive here following the inner spiral steel staircase, the field in front of them and the transparent glass floor under their feet maximizing the richness of the experience. In order to pursue a smoother appearance, we choose to use ETFE membrane air pillow system to wrap it. The material has no size limitation on one side, so that the appearance of the tower body is not divided horizontally from top to bottom, resulting in a very integral effect.

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An inflator hidden under the stairs injects air into the entire system, resulting in a rounded appearance. Thus, a fine industrial manufacturing of the future “rice grain”, was “planted” in the field..

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