City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks by Ning Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Competition Category.
BronzeUrban Planning· 2023
City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks
by Ning Zhang
Client: Shanghai Zhenru Urban Sub-center Development and Construction Investment Co., Ltd.
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Urban Planning Category
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About City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks
City Archipelago is an urban district plan for a 15 hectare site in the Zhenru Subcenter of Putuo District, Shanghai. The plan turns a former brownfield area into a mixed district of office, residential and digital innovation functions. Water and green areas work as green infrastructure that helps manage storm floods and improves daily life in the city. Green buildings are arranged in a loose pattern to form islands. Business service facilities along the city trunk road reduce noise and visual distraction.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Ecospace in concentrated urban areas holds lasting appeal for locals and entrepreneurs and breathes new life into the region.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 15 hectares
- Tags
- Brownfield transition, green infrastructure, low-carbon streets, innovation center
- Production Technology
- No distractions
Business service facilities on one side of the city trunk road provide an organic defense against noise and visual distractions to optimize biophilic experience. - Design Challenge
- Water and green are key to urban islands. They serve as green infrastructure to help manage storm floods and improve citizen experience, and are the brand-new epitome of urban brownfield transition.
- Research
- AIntention of dynamic islands
The green buildings arranged in a casual manner highlight the intention of biophilia and vitality. - Inspiration
- Ecology as a catalyst
Water and green are key to urban islands. They serve as green infrastructure to help manage storm floods and improve citizen experience, and are the brand-new epitome of urban brownfield transition. Ecospace in concentrated urban areas holds lasting appeal for locals and entrepreneurs and breathes new life into the region. - Project Duration
- The project is located in Zhenru Subcenter, Putuo District, Shanghai. The design started in March 2021 and completed in August 2021. The construction is in full swing.
- Operation Flow
- Blend and economy
A blend of office, residential and digital innovation functions maintain the streets' vigor. Transit-oriented development in the east is economically balanced with large open space in the west, thus enabling the project to progress. - Patents
- N/A
- Team Members
- Zhang Ning, Huang Yao, Shen Lu, Xu Ming, Li Zhenguo, Liu Jinpeng
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Ning Zhang, Designer, 2022.
Image #2: Photographer Ning Zhang, Designer, 2022.
Image #3: Photographer Ning Zhang, Designer, 2022.
Image #4: Photographer Ning Zhang, Designer, 2022.
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