‘The 500 square meter project, designed by Vector Architects, is a temporary ‘green’ technology showroom for one of CR Land’s residential projects in Beijing. The idea of the ‘floating garden‘ is to develop the concept of ‘temporary’ from an more meaningful angle, to design something rather like a piece of installation floating in the garden. The vertical grass wall and roof not only assist to reduce the heat gain/loss, also visually harmonize the temporary structure with the existing garden with so called ‘classic Spanish’ Style.’

The green-roofed structure’s steel frame is covered with a vertical grass walls envelope its, maintaining heat efficiency and minimizing rainwater runoff.

Set for deconstruction in 2011, the steel frames will be salvaged for future projects and the grass panels will be moved to a permanent home on an adjacent fence at the residence compound.