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798 751 Train Street
798 751 Train Street
Chaoyang, Beijing, China
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798 751 Train Street
Chaoyang, Beijing, China
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2026
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
The Train Street is approximately 3,000 square meters in the well-known 798 art campus. Originally a coal storage facility, it was situated between two railways that extended from the former Xinghuo Station, which was included in the Chinese National Industrial Heritage List in 2018. This facility was converted into a empty public plaza on top of a underground parking for the campus parking needs later. The client wanted to activate this empty plaza to a commercial area, with shops, restaurants and bars in the train carts.
To achieve this transformation, the giant and distant plaza's scale was broken down into alleys by the proposed pavilions that form from lightweight modules. Since the existing underground parking structural load and plaza pavement were not to be altered as prerequisites, the proposed lightweight modules does not have foundations. They could be freely combined with the needs of the clients to perform functions like seating, display, screening, shading, greenery, and lighting for the night to create a relax and pleasant commercial vibe. All train carriage facades were unified with silver paint, to give this commercial area a recognizable character. The silver-gray facade complementing with the black steel modules collectively provides the sense of enclosure needed for the street scale in contrast to the huge scale industrial relic context. The added silver metal eaves above the train windows also helped to give visitors with a welcoming gesture. Two freight carts were renovated to restrooms as an infrastructure for commercial activities in this plaza.
A vibrant community based commercial area was created through a careful study of scale, visual characteristic, vernacular context, and flexibility, which has hosted exhibitions, markets, outdoor performances, etc. The proposed design forms a contemporary echo of the historical industrial landscape, and provides a case study to adaptive reuse similar industrial heritage sites.
To achieve this transformation, the giant and distant plaza's scale was broken down into alleys by the proposed pavilions that form from lightweight modules. Since the existing underground parking structural load and plaza pavement were not to be altered as prerequisites, the proposed lightweight modules does not have foundations. They could be freely combined with the needs of the clients to perform functions like seating, display, screening, shading, greenery, and lighting for the night to create a relax and pleasant commercial vibe. All train carriage facades were unified with silver paint, to give this commercial area a recognizable character. The silver-gray facade complementing with the black steel modules collectively provides the sense of enclosure needed for the street scale in contrast to the huge scale industrial relic context. The added silver metal eaves above the train windows also helped to give visitors with a welcoming gesture. Two freight carts were renovated to restrooms as an infrastructure for commercial activities in this plaza.
A vibrant community based commercial area was created through a careful study of scale, visual characteristic, vernacular context, and flexibility, which has hosted exhibitions, markets, outdoor performances, etc. The proposed design forms a contemporary echo of the historical industrial landscape, and provides a case study to adaptive reuse similar industrial heritage sites.
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