effortless complexity: learning from water-town:
BAU222-2 Shanghai Qingpu Zhujiajiao Commercial
Qingpu, Shanghai, China
Discipline
ArchitectureTypology
CommercialCity
Qingpu, Shanghai, ChinaDate
2005-2007Status
Completed 2007Client
Zhujiajiao Investment Co.,LtdProgram
Retails, restaurants, fresh marketseffortless complexity: learning from water-town
doing more with less
Learning from the local water-town architecture, this design applies one methodology to create an infinite complexity of forms with a minimum of means.
Complex rhythms are formed by repetitive elements such as banded gable roofs that become north and south walls, and white masonry planes perforated with a variety of square openings that become infill walls to the west and east.
dynamic urbanism on a regular structural grids
A riverside promenade, pedestrian only laneways, and a series of community plazas, create a dynamic, legible, and permeable circulation network that maximizes potential for public life. A fresh food market and community centre form the anchors for the otherwise speculative shopping strip.
The entire project grows out of a regular 8.0 x 8.0m structural planning grid to accommodate underground car parking throughout the entire site.
both and
This effortless complexity presents as both a cohesive whole and an assemblage of strong individual buildings.
- Infrastructure
- Public
- Residential
- Healthcare
- Education
- Culture
- Office
- Retail
- Hotel
- Hospitality
- Mixed Use
- Sports
- Planning
- Urban Design
- Public Landscapes
- Private Landscapes
- Playgrounds
- Structures & Pavillions
- Residential
- Healthcare
- Education
- Culture
- Office
- Retail
- Hotel
- Hospitality
- 2023
- 2024
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2005-2010
- 2000-2005
- 1990-2000
Public Landscapes
Playgrounds
2016
2024
2023
Public
Education
Private Landscapes
2015
2020
2000-2005
Structures & Pavillions
2019
Office
2005-2010
2021
Culture
Planning
Urban Design
2013
Retail
Hospitality
Mixed Use
Sports
Education
2018
2017
Office
Culture
Retail
2011
Residential
Infrastructure
Hotel
Hotel
Healthcare
2014
2012
Healthcare
Hospitality
1990-2000
Residential
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