Prompted by surging urban growth in many of the nation’s larger cities, the Chinese “Urban Planning Museums” are generally intended to communicate important city planning and development issues to the public. The Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center interprets this concept by way of a forum-like design in which discussions between politicians, professionals and the public may take place. In the new Center, the lines between citizens and decision-makers are blurred; visitors are given rare access to the inner-workings of their city. Our goal has foremost been to create an engaging, accessible public space in the new district, and thereby strengthen both physical and social ties between the local government and community.
Playze, in collaboration with Schmidhuber, has won the invited competition to design the Urban Planning Exhibition Center in Ningbo, China.
Client: City of Ningbo
Architekten: playze, Shanghai
SCHMIDHUBER, München
Local Design Institute: Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design and Research
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