Located in the Future Horticulture Exhibition Area at the main venue of the International Horticultural Exhibition 2024 Chengdu (the EXPO), the Silver Garden is an experimental garden centered around natural perception. Covering approximately 1,000 square meters, it was designed and created by a team from Peking University.

The garden’s main design highlights silver-toned plants. The juxtaposition of silver-toned vegetation with blue-gray steel plate walls creates a surreal and cold ambience. The green native plants on the outer edges serve as the backdrop of the garden, accentuating the silver theme within and creating a stark contrast in terms of both color and form. This emphasizes how design in the Anthropocene era can move beyond local ecology and indigenous plants, provoking reflections on future design trends and ethical considerations.

The garden features representative plant species such as Hibiscus mutabilis, Acacia podalyriifolia, Olea europaea, Jacobaea maritima, Teucrium fruticans, Festuca glauca, and Crossostephium chinense Makino.

In the Internet age, where human-nature connection is increasingly alienated, the garden explores how different spatial techniques can stimulate and promote interaction between people and nature through various experimental installations. At the entrance of the garden, a series of cast-in-place concrete walls, from continuous to discrete forms, creates an engaging sequence that blurs the garden’s boundaries while defining different ways to approach the garden. The various openings in the concrete walls produce intriguing visual features on the garden, sparking visitors' curiosity and guiding them to explore the inner world of the garden. Moreover, the design of the wall openings, garden seating, and installations are symbolic representations of Sichuan Mahjong tiles, subtly hinting at Chengdu people's enjoyment of both refined and popular tastes amidst beautiful scenery.