SHANTOU RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND

2022, Shantou [CHN] _ competition

In collaboration with YiChuang program: residential towers, commercial strip and kindergarten

This project is the result of an open competition. It is a typical chinese residential development project with a commercial strip on the south (with possibility to convert the shops into single family villas in the future) facing the lake and a kindergarten in the north of the site. My involvment is related to the design phase, as a main designer, leading the team to the successfull completation of the competition.

2020, Shenzhen [CHN] _ on going

In collaboration with Cube Station / competition 1st prize 1st program: expansion of an existing middle school in Futian

This project is the result of a competition. We win the first prize and the developing phase is on going at the moment. The project is the expansion and connection to an old and not anymore reponding to the school needs. The main carachteristic of the new campus is the integration between fidderent spaces for the students allowing them to have proper spaces for individual study, group works and big meetings. All these moments respond to the growth and the development of young students and all these moments have been incorporated in the design of the school.

2020, Shenzhen [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station / competition 2nd prize 2nd program: archive center / offices / public facilities data sheet plot area: built volume: budget:

The project site is located at the north side of the intersection of Xin'an First Road and Fanshen Boulevard, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, close to the Bao'an Central District and Qianhai Cooperation Zone, close to the main axis of Baoan District and on the green axis of the Qianhai landscape. The perfect geographical position along the city axis allow the building to become the new icon of this area. Without a doubt, a building of this size affects the community next to it. Unlike the general urban archives, the Baoan Archives is located the densely populated residential areas of the city. As ’the good neighbour' therefore, its design encourages active interaction and those values which make a neighbourhood enjoyable. In addition to satisfying its own basic functions, the archives acts as the hub of this area, integrating broken urban resources and creating high-quality public spaces.

The long and narrow land choosen as a competition site is both a restriction and an opportunity. It provides sufficient public interface facing the city and has the opportunity to create a rich urban public space, which is connected with the water corridor to form a whole urban park. So we decided to develop a 3d park digging holes at the ground floor giving direct connection to the B1 floor. This solutions is also adopted to obtain climate advantages for the underground areas. The spaces at this level are constantly in the shadow, giving the interior spaces a cooler temperature.

This situation is increased by the use of the vegetation creating underground gardens that bring in this way not only climatic advantages but also psycological ones.