Haishang Plaza Primary Function: Fausaga Fa'aaogaina Fefiloi by Nonchi Wang and Luoya Tu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Fausaga Fale Competition Category.
ArioFausaga Fale· 2020
Haishang Plaza Primary Function: Fausaga Fa'aaogaina Fefiloi
Client: Archimorphic
A' Design Award Ario Winner in Fausaga Fale Category
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About Haishang Plaza Primary Function: Fausaga Fa'aaogaina Fefiloi
O le Haishang Plaza o se fausaga fa'aaogaina fefiloi o lo'o tu i se pitonu'u tuai o fale nofoia i le a'ai o Zhengzhou. O lenei galuega e tu'ufa'atasia ai olo o le Soho ma le Loft, o se maketi fa'atau i totonu ma se malae tele o le olaga i fafo. O le fausaga fa'asauniuni e solo i tua i tulimanu, ma fa'atupu ai faitoto'a manino ma ave ai le foliga o fafo i lalo i se fua fa'aletagata. O atigipusa lanumeamata o lo'o tu'u i le va o olo ma alalaupapa mo tagata savavali e fai ma avanoa fa'asoa ma fa'aali. O mea faitino e aofia ai le kulū fa'amalosia i alava tioata ma le sima, papatioata alumini ma tioata puipui fa'apa'u. O lo'o aofia ai fo'i se faiga o le taualuga lanumeamata.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Ario
O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Haishang Plaza Primary Function: Fausaga Fa'aaogaina Fefiloi, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Haishang Plaza Primary Function: Fausaga Fa'aaogaina Fefiloi e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Haishang Plaza Primary Function: Fausaga Fa'aaogaina Fefiloi o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Located in an old residential district of Zhengzhou city, Haishang Plaza is intended to be a premier shopping and entertainment destination of this area.
The design incorporates a mixed-use program including SOHO, LOFT towers, an indoor shopping mall and a large outdoor lifestyle plaza, is committed to bringing vitality to the community and creating a new business model. - Dimensions & Packaging
- GFA: 175,708 m2
Program: Mall 69,491 m2 ; Lifestyle Retail 29,401 m2 ; LOFT 36,693 m2 ; SOHO 36,472 m2 ; Office 3,651 m2
FAR: 3.5 - Tags
- Mixed-use, Shopping malls
- Production Technology
- Gfrg: glass fiber reinforces gypsum
Gfrc: glass fiber reinforced concrete
Curved etfe system
Aluminum panel
Glazing systems: curtain wall
Sustainable green roof system
Low-carbon transportation - Design Challenge
- This concept was selected by the client for several reasons.
Primarily, this model was selected because it offers a more suitable business model for the client’s needs. In this option, there are more sellable spaces, with three residential towers: West SOHO, North LOFT, and East LOFT. By adding permanent residential program to the mixed use development, the client is able to presell the residential units before breaking ground. The sales of these units is what allows our client to finance the construction of the project and reduce their own financial investment.
This design is more pedestrian friendly. By breaking down the enclosed corners, pedestrians are more freely able to enter the retail space. By stepping back the retail levels into terraced tiers, the volume of the facade steps down to a more inviting human scale.
This design also offers a larger variety of program. Among the specialized program, is an additional overarching typology of Lifestyle retail. This new type of 24/7 walkable retail was a vital requirement for the client. This Lifestyle retail has to be street accessible, which the other concept did not offer. - Research
- Neighboring the site are 5 programmatic sources that influenced the precedence for the client’s desired program. This Mixed Use project looks to condense this urban fabric into a new architectural typology of live/work/shop destination.
The design also includes family oriented entertainment complexes that are geared toward all age groups. Combined with customized and branded retail and restaurants, this venue serves as a destination for families in the future. Various theme restaurants are scattered around the mall. All of which create an unprecedented experience for local citizens of Zhengzhou, a northern city with dry climate, giving the building the highest degree of originality.
The overall result of concept is an interconnected community grounded in tradition, but poised for the future. - Inspiration
- Haishang Plaza is very much like a cruise ship to set sail, it creates a new local landmark. Green boxes were embedded as a connection between the SOHO and LOFT towers and the pedestrian corridors and as communal/display spaces for people who live and work in the towers.
- Project Duration
- Fengqing Road Dongfeng Road Junction, Zhengzhou city
2014 – 2019 - Operation Flow
- This terraced massing design focuses on drawing pedestrians into its spaces by stepping back its corners and breaking down the urban fabric to human scale. This gesture creates prominent entrances into the plaza, while increasing street frontage visibility of the main shopping mall and the lifestyle retail. The addition of residential towers allows the client the ability to presell units to finance the construction of the mixed-use project. Soft horizontal lines of the swooping facade formally tie the towers to the podium, as well as visually encourage movement throughout its pedestrian streets.
- Team Members
- Architect In Charge: Nonchi Wang
Design Team: Luoya Tu
Ying Tao
David Rodriguez
Dennis Roney
Nicholas Poulos
Brennen Huller
Yixin Liu
Carey England
Scott Wu
Kisung Nam
Daphany Shen
Peng Jiang
Caroline Liu
Jacquelyn Hu
Michelle Lozano
Nedi Dimova-John
Charles Liu - Image Credits
- Photographer: Zhongzhou Ke
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