Jinwan Aviation City Industrial Service Center

The Jinwan Aviation City Industrial Service Centre in Zhuhai is a public-service and business-incubation hub for the new aviation city, a planned sub-centre of the Zhuhai West Ecological New Area. Landscape architects UP+S, working with client Zhuhai Liangang Investment Holdings, contractor Guangdong Jianxing and interior designers Paring Onions, were commissioned to deliver an integrated landscape-and-sponge system. The site faces Jinshan Lake to the west and Yinghe East Road to the east, surrounded by commercial office and residential plots. The landscape adopts a Southern Cross cross-star layout that mirrors the architectural plan, its converging lines expressing the fusion theme. Six zones structure the design. The main entrance, on Yinghe East Road, uses a mirror pool and stepped cascades to mark the threshold, with stepped planting softening the grade change from the road; grey-and-white paving and layered planting keep sight lines open. The central courtyard is the heart of the scheme, a multi-purpose outdoor room for the entrepreneurial and government tenants who use the centre, where stepped rain gardens provide seating while retaining stormwater, and water, stone and timber carry the fusion theme. Two zigzag outdoor corridors run along the courtyard, offering shaded, rain-protected walking in the hot subtropical climate and linking buildings, courtyard and waterside platforms. Roof gardens and green roofs cover the three main buildings and terraces, following the overall landscape geometry and providing elevated seating, cooling and rain retention. Planting is kept open and legible, with Terminalia and Bischofia as structural trees, flowering Tabebuia and Ceiba as accents, and low-maintenance ornamental grasses as a base; groundcovers and gravel continue the paving lines, and the slightly lowered greenery lets runoff flow back into planted beds. Sponge infrastructure is woven through rain gardens, green roofs and bio-infiltration tree pits, making the centre both an economic platform and a sponge-cell for Zhuhai's rainy climate, and delivering a low-carbon, easy-to-maintain workplace that attracts high-end tenants.