Dongguan City University Campus, Guangdong Building Develoment, New Chinese Building Images
Dongguan City University Campus in Guangdong
19 Oct 2022
Design: HENN
Location: Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Dongguan City University Campus, China
As City University of Hong Kong?s third mainland site, CityU Dongguan will connect top researchers and industry collaborators across the Greater Bay Area Technology Innovation Corridor and create a multifaceted and vibrant university district in the Pearl River Delta region.

CityU will help unify the high-end research facilities of Hong Kong and the manufacturing power of Shenzhen to create a new science and development region in the country. The campus?s close proximity to the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), one of the largest scientific research projects in China, and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, will allow for close collaboration on topics ranging from neutron scattering to wearable technology. Home to the Faculty of Science, Engineering, Business, and Medicine, the 300,000m² campus is organized along a diagonal grid and divided in half by a road running from the north to the south. Harnessing the momentum of this strong central axis, HENN?s design boomerangs across the site and bridges the road with an elevated platform known as the Academic Spine. The Spine organizes the campus physically and conceptually: as the main circulation route through campus, the elevated platform navigates the site?s mountainous topogra...