CHUNXI Marketplace, NEXUS

Shanghai, China

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CHUNXI Marketplace, NEXUS

Shanghai, China

Firm

Atelier Z+

Type

Commercial › Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2023

SIZE

300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft

CHUNXI Marketplace is located at the southwest corner of the main community Intersection, it integrates everyday shopping, casual dining, coffee and bakery, and other community leisure consumption, creating a refined yet vibrant gathering space full of local life and social cohesion. The community advocates near-zero, low-carbon values by fostering a green ecological environment, promoting low-carbon construction techniques, and advancing the use of passive ecological technologies, to support the realization of future lifestyles.
At CHUNXI Marketplace, we adopted a strategy of internalizing urban space—beyond bringing the street and plaza indoors, we introduced a courtyard to create a lush, plant-filled green atrium. This not only enriches the indoor social environment but also brings nature inside. The modular shops and stalls, reminiscent of traditional market booths, combine with diverse community cultures to create distinct experiential settings that can be continually refreshed and updated over time.
CHUNXI Marketplace spans approximately 3,000m2 over two floors. Measures were taken to alleviate its imposing presence on the surrounding streets and alleys by implementing scale control strategies focused on the roof, street-facing façades, and interior interfaces.
The staggered roof ridges articulate the double-pitched roof into multiple segments separated by high-side windows. This breaks down the overall massing and controls gable height. On the exterior façade, standardized portal-style shop units are rhythmically arranged at ground level. The second floor is set back to form staggered terraces under the eaves, providing outdoor seating for upstairs shops. Beneath the main roof, each restaurant unit features an inward-facing "roof-within-a-roof" canopy. It maintains a human-scale clear height of about 3 meters, creating an intimate environment and fostering the ambiance of an indoor street that wraps around the second-floor atrium.