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The Vortex Garden was the Bao'an district garden at the 2021 Shenzhen Bougainvillea Flower Show, designed by Atelier Scale as a temporary but deliberately sustainable exhibition garden. The studio's broader research treats flower shows with a critical eye: they celebrate horticulture and public beauty, yet they generate enormous waste because most built elements are demolished after a single use. The Vortex Garden therefore pursues a prefabricated, disassemblable, and modular construction strategy, so that the vast majority of materials can be recovered, transported, and rebuilt on another site after the exhibition closes. The site was a portion of the Bao'an exhibition grounds, and the design is credited to Atelier Scale with a team led by Yan Qin, Chen Xiang, Wang Fan, and Ye Xing, for the Bao'an Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, and built by Shenzhen Sensi Environmental Art Engineering. Visitors entering the space encounter a landscape organized around a vortex or spiral theme that draws the eye inward and through the garden, framing the featured bougainvillea displays along a meandering route. The vortex geometry produces a sequence of tight and loose spaces that guide circulation while offering quiet pockets for resting and viewing. Modular steel and timber components are used throughout so that the entire structure can be unbolted, stacked, and re-erected elsewhere, demonstrating that even a temporary show garden can be designed for reuse rather than disposal.