Kaohsiung Waterfront in Taiwan by Jvantspijker Urbanism

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Kaohsiung Waterfront in Taiwan by Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

February 14th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

The Kaohsiung Waterfront is being made accessible to the city and its inhabitants due to the departure of navy and industrial functions. The project proposes a strategy for waterfront redevelopment by integrating the natural beauty of the adjacent forested mountain, a low density residential/leisure oriented program and heavy central business district program in balance.

Kaohsiung waterfront development – atmospheric impression of the new face of Kaohsiung City : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

Architects: Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture & CULD project
Project: Kaohsiung Waterfront
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Type: Invited competition, 1st prize
Client: Kaohsiung City Government
Partners: EDS, Taipei
Program/Size: 2 km waterfront, 2 million m2 mixed use
Status: Masterplan completed and delivered to client (2009)
Software used: AutoCAD and 3dS Max

Exisitng condition of abandoned warehouses, military bases and industry : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

By developing two banks of the central Love river into very different atmospheres, one low key and low density and one high density with high rise, the two opposites will reinforce each other. Around the central Love Bay an attractive public program will link the two areas around a central water square. The natural landscape rolls down the mountain to form a waterfront park that enhances the quality of the river bank developed in low density.

Master plan drawing : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

Birds’s eye impression of the waterfront in relation to the rest of the city : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

The Love Bay will be the new ‘Water Square’ of the city –a place for events and festivities : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

The center of the proposal is the Love Bay – where the river flows into the waterfront : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

The new developments tie in with the existing urban fabric : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

Urban DNA af new leisure-oriented development on the pier : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

Section of the low rise development and park : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

section of the new High rise development and CBD : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

top-view of model : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

Artist impression from the high rise area towards the water : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

Kaohsiung Waterfront by night : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Kaohsiung Waterfront by night : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Artist impression from the high rise area towards the water : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Model photograph : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: top-view of model : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: section of the new High rise development and CBD : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Section of the low rise development and park : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Urban DNA af new leisure-oriented development on the pier : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: The new developments tie in with the existing urban fabric : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: The Love Bay will be the new ‘Water Square’ of the city –a place for events and festivities : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: The center of the proposal is the Love Bay – where the river flows into the waterfront : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Birds’s eye impression of the waterfront in relation to the rest of the city : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Master plan drawing : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Exisitng condition of abandoned warehouses, military bases and industry : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

: Kaohsiung waterfront development – atmospheric impression of the new face of Kaohsiung City : Image Courtesy Jvantspijker Urbanism Architecture

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Tags: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Categories: 3dS Max, Autocad, Port's public spaces

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