Shenzhen Maozhou River Yanji Wings Children's Park

Yanji Zhi Wing is located on the north bank of the middle section of the Maozhou River in Bao'an District, Shenzhen. It is a theme park for children that integrates various functions and landscape sites into a three-dimensional pavilion-frame amusement park combining play, rest, and viewing. Its construction is ingenious: on one hand, the design draws inspiration from the traditional Chinese children's intelligence toy, the tangram, to form the basic configuration of a rocking column system; the tangram was called the Yanji Tu in the Song Dynasty. On the other hand, the structure lightly winds through the site's trees, with two corners upturned like unfurled wings, hence the name Yanji Zhi Wing, or Wing of the Seven Boards. Construction combined with culture: the pavilion adopts an innovative rocking column system, using three columns supporting each triangular face as the basic configuration, growing continuously within a 36-by-40-meter area. The structure has good structural and construction expressiveness and meets the needs of rapid construction. To address vertical support stability, we controlled the length of triangular members within 11 meters and designed spindle-shaped columns of 160-millimeter diameter with 230-by-250-millimeter tapered column caps, dissipating torsional forces and bending moments. The project by TJAD creates a children's playground that is structurally expressive, culturally rooted, and quickly built, demonstrating how innovative engineering can create playful public spaces.