RDA was one of three finalists selected out of twelve international participants in the international competition for the Guoshen Museum, part of an ongoing campaign to build new landmark cultural projects for Shenzhen. RDA submitted a design that reinterprets Chinese cultural and architectural traditions to offer a world-class contemporary museum for Shenzhen. The approach extrapolates the Chinese courtyard building—a traditional typology for public complexes—in three dimensions, creating a procession of layered spaces that blend interior and exterior spaces.