Vers la Mer

Shenzhen Bay Ecological Facility is situated adjacent to the Futian Mangrove Reserve. Challenging conventional museum typologies and anthropocentric attitudes, the design reimagines exhibition spaces through a critical lens inspired by reflections on animal ethics.

It proposes a layered, ramp-connected frame placed directly within the intertidal zone, allowing mangrove flora and fauna to inhabit and flow across its structure according to natural tidal gradients. This infrastructure is designed to be submerged by tides or to serve as an urban pocket park, embodying both a resilience strategy and a manifesto. It critiques symbolic preservation while exploring a new paradigm for ecological exhibition — one that integrates rather than isolates.