The Zhengzhou Nature and Culture Center will be an art, performance, and recreational amenity for a rapidly urbanizing new part of the city. As a counterpoint to the newly developed urban context, the City government desires for the building program to embody the Chinese idea of the harmonious existence of people and nature.

The landscape design integrates the building program with the landscape to achieve this goal through carefully nesting the building into a constructed hillside made up of wetland terraces that purify water to maintain a habitat pond. The historic landscape uses are referenced in the agricultural and informal riparian forest plantings that embrace and buffer the park site from the urban surroundings.