The proposed master plan gets its inspiration for a modern & livable Chinatown from one of China’s important element of its culture, the Chinese Gardens. The Chinese gardens are made for reflection and escape from the outside world. They create an idealized miniature landscape, which is meant to express the harmony that should exist between man and nature.
A typical Chinese garden is enclosed by walls and includes one or more ponds, rock works, trees and flowers, and an assortment of halls and pavilions within the garden, connected by winding paths and zigzag galleries. By moving from structure to structure, visitors can view a series of carefully composed scenes, unrolling like a scroll of landscape paintings.
The master plan is envisioned as a healthy, sprawling urban oasis. The use of direct and indirect elements from nature throughout its residential, office, hospitality, education, and retail developments are intended to alleviate stress while increasing productivity, creativity, and overall well-being.
WTA’s whole vision for the proposed “New Chinatown” is to make its architecture merge with its landscape intention, realizing the perfect balance between the structures and its environment. The silhouettes of the buildings will be an interpretation of towering mountains and other elements Chinese landscape paintings. Materials for the proposed edifices and landscape features will used natural color schemes which will take traditional Chinese architecture to a modern approach.
WTA’s proposal is designed to incite thought about how architecture can be integrated with the proposed landscape intention to provide natural habitats for wildlife and recreation space as well as places to live, shop, play, learn and work for its users.
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