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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. Chengdu Bo’ya City Plaza in China by AedasSeptember 15th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Aedas Chengdu Bo’ya City Plaza designed by Aedas, is set at the heart of Tianfu New District in Chengdu. Boasting distinctive elevations, it is considered a landmark of Chengdu “Xinchuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park” jointly founded by China and Singapore. The project functions as an urban hub that connects main roads and transit systems within the city, establishing itself as a gateway to the overall community. Right from the beginning of design stage, Aedas Directors Chris Chen and Leon Liang have been determined to instill local features to this project with international visions.  Image Courtesy © Aedas
 Site location, Image Courtesy © Aedas  Adjacent traffic network, Image Courtesy © Aedas  Image Courtesy © Aedas In line with the concept of “porosity”, “connectivity” and “integration”, which Aedas has put into practice in its devotions to urban city development throughout the years, Chris and Leon have created a design that ensures efficiency, convenience, and living quality for the community. Porosity, connectivity and integration has been interpreted through a myriad of architectures in high-density cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore. City dwellers are invited to enjoy work-live-recreate dynamics, as social economy evolves. In this project, Aedas has shaped a porous community, by maximizing use of space on ground floors, to allow welcoming entries along the main roads in the area. Designers create public decks extended from the interior spaces, to connect the project to multiple transportation hubs, and to encourage connections for people and the city. To prioritize experience of diverse visitors, multi-level communal spaces seamlessly link retail and offices functions housed on different floors. Image Courtesy © Aedas “The architecture shall integrate, influence and improve its surrounding environment, and the way the city and community interact.”, Chris explained. The project comprises four office towers, a retail center and a three-storey commercial podium. Two towers are placed on the south of the plot, while the other two on the east. Designers flexibly adjust tower orientations and sensibly reduce height of a certain floors, to ensure optimal views and maximise distance between towers. On the ground level, the project provides multiple entries along the main roads, and the entrance of inner streets easily leads to a public square. Visitors are thus encouraged to chill and relax in the abundant green spaces. Tower volumes are carefully sculpted, to allow inner streets to stretch at a human scale. Multiple internal parks are enclosed to meld with the urban landscape north of the plot.  Inner streets with proper scale, Image Courtesy © Aedas  Open blocks, Image Courtesy © Aedas  Frontage entrance on ground floor, Image Courtesy © Aedas  Public square at the entrance of inner street entrance, Image Courtesy © Aedas “We should not only integrate global visions, but also local characteristics for our design”, according to Leon. Layout of the towers and podium space was inspired by the unique landscape in Sichuan province, while varying layers of floors simulate the undulating Min Mountains well-known in the region. Podium and public space echo with the multi-colored ponds in different sizes and shapes at Huanglong, a famous scenery north-west of the Province. The sky bridge linking different towers takes cue from the ancient Shu Road around deep valleys and steep mountains, while the public landscape to the north is reminiscent of the watercourse in Dujiangyan city. The overall design converts natural sceneries in Sichuan into an immersive spatial experience, which is rooted from local landscape, history and culture.  Podium and public space that simulate the multi-colored ponds, Image Courtesy © Aedas  Contours that simulate Min Mountains, Image Courtesy © Aedas The towers are closely connected by multi-level sky gardens which combines greening, empowering a fully accessible experience, and forming social spaces for visitors and tenants alike. Abiding local regulations, designers introduce recessed terraces to reiterate a coherent architectural statement.  Overall façade design, Image Courtesy © Aedas  A/C unit storage spaces are concealed by decorative fins on façades , Image Courtesy © Aedas  Exterior balconies designed with vertical greening, Image Courtesy © Aedas About Aedas Aedas is the world’s only local and global architecture and design practice driven by global sharing of research, local knowledge and international practice. Our 1,400 creative minds with design studios across the globe create world-class design solutions with deep social and cultural understanding of the communities we design for. We create world-class design solutions that are tailored to the needs of cities and communities around the world.
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Categories: Garden, Mixed use, Office Building, office Complex, Office space, Offices, Plaza, public spaces, Retail, Tower |
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