Architectural conception of Guangzhou international convention and exhibition center

The architectural design of Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center is based on the wind from the Pearl River, highlighting the "floating" personality of the building, symbolizing that the warm wind of the Pearl River blows across the earth, making the Convention and Exhibition Center, a carrier of high technology and modern culture, float on the south bank of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, giving the static building a "floating" formal beauty. It contains the dynamic development and evolution of commodity technology, which makes architecture have multiple meanings of "non-architecture" and brings a new kind of tourism and leisure to Guangzhou citizens. In design, Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center is a modern intelligent building that pays attention to building energy saving and indoor and outdoor ecological environment, and integrates architectural art and modern technology. The streamlined design of "low in the north and high in the south gradually" is adopted. A 40-meter-wide and nearly 450-meter-long "Pearl River Corridor" not only divides the interior of the convention and exhibition center into two parts, but also is a multi-functional channel that harmoniously connects the north and south venues and the upper and lower floors. Walking into the "Pearl River Corridor", people can enjoy the unique palm trees and the scenery on both sides of the Pearl River by leaning against the escalator window, or talk with friends in cafes and leisure areas.

Design concept

Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center has a total land area of 700,000 square meters. The exhibition center project will be built in two phases. The scale of the first phase project has reached the first in Asia and the second in the world. It is a leading building in China, a world-class building and the largest exhibition hall in the world. The first phase of the project covers an area of 410.5 million ㎡, with a construction area of 395,000 ㎡. The total length of the building is 458.5 m, and the total width is 3 18.2 m, including exhibition hall (including south exhibition hall and north exhibition hall), outdoor exhibition hall, Pearl River promenade, driveway, east entrance driveway and other rooms (including dining room, office room and other rooms). The exhibition center has 7 floors, including overhead floor and mezzanine. The raised floor is mainly used in exhibition halls, garages, restaurants and equipment rooms. The first and fourth floors are exhibition halls and restaurants, the second floor is the Pearl River Corridor and business rooms, and the third, fifth and sixth floors are offices and equipment rooms. The total height of the building is 39.5m, the clear height of the first floor exhibition hall is 13m, and the clear height of the fourth floor is not less than 8.5m The internationally accepted 3m×3m is adopted as the minimum basic size of the booth. The design adopts 30 x 30 as the module unit and 90m as the large exhibition hall unit. The exhibition hall composed of each plane is a rectangular plane of 90mx125m. There are 8 exhibition halls on the first floor, 5 exhibition halls on the fourth floor and 3 exhibition halls on the overhead floor, totaling 16 exhibition halls. The combination of exhibition halls can be a flat exhibition space with one or more flexible and non-interfering five exhibition halls. The exhibition halls on the first floor and the fourth floor are respectively connected with the Pearl River Corridor which runs through the east and west in the middle. The Pearl River Corridor is an indoor communication space, with a width of 30 meters and a length of 450 meters, which spans the east and west and uses the Pearl River landscape. It can be used as a place to provide diversified information, provide comfortable internal space and rest environment for the public, and provide people with the main vertical and horizontal traffic channels.