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Jiangmen City Centre
Client: Mingtai Investment and Development Co., Ltd.
Status: Concept
Credits:
Design: Samer Hout & Adam Blakeley, with MHKW
Description:
The site is a virgin terrain envisioned as part of a future commercial and residential hub directly adjacent to the Jiangmen city centre. Diagrammatically, the form was directly inherited from the shape of the site; two bands of urban intensification that converge and diverge as they follow the site's edges. Between the two bands, a lush green space with a large body of water capitalizes on the subtropical climate of the area. The two bands respond to very different edge conditions; while the Northern band contains high-rise residential towers over a podium of retail facing a major arterial road, the Southern band is a free flowing arrangement of urban courtyards formed by lower and smaller building blocks that sit on a plinth, creating a continuous strip of landscape.
A second proposal focused on intensifying and enlarging the retail component to create a shopping street that stretches the entire length of the site. We proposed to divide the site into two contrasting and mutually exclusive conditions; hard and soft. The southern half would be a lush green environment with restricted car access, parking underground and towers above. The northern section of the site is comprised of shopping blocks modulated to allow pedestrian traffic to infiltrate from the main arterial road into the main spine of this shopping strip. Retail blocks are then shifted, stacked, manipulated and variably sized to allow for maximum flexibility and variety.
Status: Concept
Credits:
Design: Samer Hout & Adam Blakeley, with MHKW
Description:
The site is a virgin terrain envisioned as part of a future commercial and residential hub directly adjacent to the Jiangmen city centre. Diagrammatically, the form was directly inherited from the shape of the site; two bands of urban intensification that converge and diverge as they follow the site's edges. Between the two bands, a lush green space with a large body of water capitalizes on the subtropical climate of the area. The two bands respond to very different edge conditions; while the Northern band contains high-rise residential towers over a podium of retail facing a major arterial road, the Southern band is a free flowing arrangement of urban courtyards formed by lower and smaller building blocks that sit on a plinth, creating a continuous strip of landscape.
A second proposal focused on intensifying and enlarging the retail component to create a shopping street that stretches the entire length of the site. We proposed to divide the site into two contrasting and mutually exclusive conditions; hard and soft. The southern half would be a lush green environment with restricted car access, parking underground and towers above. The northern section of the site is comprised of shopping blocks modulated to allow pedestrian traffic to infiltrate from the main arterial road into the main spine of this shopping strip. Retail blocks are then shifted, stacked, manipulated and variably sized to allow for maximum flexibility and variety.
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