Baoshan U World Mixed Use by Aico is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Competition Category.
SilverReal Estate· 2021
Baoshan U World Mixed Use
by Aico
Client: CIFI Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd.
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Real Estate Category
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About Baoshan U World Mixed Use
Baoshan U World is a mixed use development in a suburban district of Shanghai. The layout uses a permeable perimeter block. Continuous facades along the city roads define an active public sidewalk, while several paths and small plazas lead into a central courtyard. The porous plan improves visual links to the nearby riverfront greenery. Community facilities and entertainment venues occupy the ground floor to keep the streets lively. Creative offices and apartments sit along the sides and surround a community service building that serves as a social and fitness hub.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Baoshan U World Mixed Use is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Baoshan U World Mixed Use is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Baoshan U World Mixed Use is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Mixed-Use Development and Urban Design Services
We transform suburban spaces into vibrant mixed-use communities that balance commercial success with quality of life. Our award-winning approach integrates retail, office, and residential elements through pedestrian-focused design that reshapes neighborhood identity.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The team adopt a penetrable perimeter block for the site. Continuous building facades along city roads defines an active public sidewalk, while multiple paths and small plazas invite people to the site’s heart, an energetic courtyard. This porous layout enhances visual linkage and optimize surrounding riverfront greens. The main functions of the ground floor are community facilities and entertainments to maintain streets alive. Creative office and apartments are located along the side, embracing a community service building at the center of the courtyard, as the social and fitness hub.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Total Construction Area: 30511 sqm
Land Area: 14555 sqm
Retail Area: 7060 sqm
Office Area: 8400 sqm
Apartment Area: 5590 sqm
Office Building Height: 24m - Tags
- Architecture, Office, Facade, Vibrant Community Center, Construction Techniques, Suburb, Shanghai
- Production Technology
- Structurally speaking, this project selects steel to apply to the whole construction in order to satisfy the proposing purpose. However, the main designing difficulty and innovation point is the combination of steel and window-wall system, especially the protruding window. Another feature of this project is the speeding process, it only takes 4 months to start from planning idea to out-facade material selection, which can be regarded as a more challenging requirement for design and all the specialized teams.
The design team chose red brick tile with gray aluminum panel as the major material palette, together with carefully crafted details, to bring a warm and sophisticated urban campus feel to the project. - Design Challenge
- The Baoshan U-World project is located in Luodian, Baoshan – a sprawling outer suburb of Shanghai. Although there are many residential neighborhoods nearby, the overall urban planning is the typical suburban model which emphasis automobile efficiency rather than pedestrian convenience. Very wide road red lines and large building setbacks overpower human scale and discourage pedestrian activities. How can a new development generate positive impact to change the status quo from the urban scale? How can the design team give the local community their much needed vibrant public space in this suburban context?
- Inspiration
- This project has been developed from the design team critical thinking about the relations among traditional communities, commercial buildings, its users and the nature. It has become a successful experiment on infilling mixed-use development in suburban location. With urbanism design approach, it have brought more dense, dynamic and quality experiences and helped to reshape the identity of the community.
- Project Duration
- Completion: 2017
Location: Luodian, Baoshan, Shanghai - Operation Flow
- The Baoshan U-World has become a successful experiment on infilling mixed-use development in suburban location. With urbanism design approach, the design team have brought more dense, dynamic and quality experiences and helped to reshape the identity of the community.
- Team Members
- Rudan Ye
Jing Zhang
Hucheng Yuan
Yue Huang - Image Credits
- Image #1: Xiu Huo
Image #2: Xiu Huo
Image #3: Xiu Huo
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Image #5: Xiu Huo
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