Integration systems. Yangpu district zero carbon park by AS+ and Atelier L+
04/04/2023.
[Shanghai] China
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Architecture studios AS+ and Atelier L+, in collaboration with TJAD engineering, have completed the first phase of the project for a large central park in a large-scale space around the Yangpu Bridge, in an important area in the memory of the city of Shanghai for being considered the area where China's industrialization process began.
The project is the first phase of the winning proposal of an international competition designed by AS+ and developed in collaboration with Atelier L+ and TJAD engineering, which has a second phase, already in process, into which the Archi-Union and Atelier Deshaus studios have been incorporated.
The project is the first phase of the winning proposal of an international competition designed by AS+ and developed in collaboration with Atelier L+ and TJAD engineering, which has a second phase, already in process, into which the Archi-Union and Atelier Deshaus studios have been incorporated.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Site plan, ground floor plan and sections. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Sections. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Pole detail, section. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Context diagram. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Red diagram. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Rendering. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Rendering. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Rendering. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Rendering. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Rendering. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Model. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
Model. Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+.
The park designed by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos and Atelier L+ has been built on the banks of the Huangpu River, 400 meters wide through which an intense fluvial traffic of raw materials circulates with the city of Nanjing, the ancient capital of China has been proposed as an Environmental System that proposes to efficiently organize five complementary and integrated subsystems: the Green System, the Memory System, the Water System, the Knowledge System and the Infrastructure System, a set of ideas that want to convert the area in the first self-sufficient large urban sector of Shanghai.
The project is considered an activator that facilitates the best nature-city integration, facilitates the decarbonization of the area and recovers the memory of the city and the relationship with the river, taking advantage of the best solar orientation, the best views of the bridge, the river, and the downtown Shanghai skyline.
A natural space that will be the centre of urban development of two million square meters of new construction, and the restoration of another half million square meters dedicated to cultural and leisure uses.
The park project is completed with a transport connection area, ferry-metro-bus-taxi-parking organized by means of a gallery in which a leisure and commerce program (theatre, restaurants, shops, etc.) is developed.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
Description of project by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos and Atelier L+
The project marks the first phase of a transformation process that will affect a large-scale plot around the Yangpu Bridge. The project entails the creation of a Central Park and, revolving around it, the urban development of two million square meters of new construction and the restoration of another half million square meters dedicated to cultural and leisure uses, intervening in the industrial buildings that are located facing the Huangpu River, whose 400-meter width is still dedicated to the fluvial traffic of raw materials with Nanjing, the ancient capital of China. It is a strategic project in the memory of the city since the industrialization process of China began here with the implantation of warehouses for the textile industry (and the incorporation of women into the world of work). The entire project has been thought of as an Environmental System that efficiently organizes five complementary and integrated subsystems: the Green System, the Memory System, the Water System, the Knowledge System and the Infrastructure System, so that the whole it will become the first self-sufficient large urban sector in Shanghai, designed from the point of view of nature-city integration, decarbonization and enhancing the memory of the city and the river.
Yangpu Bridge Riverside Area by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Atelier L+. Photograph by Zhang Yong.
The construction of the Park represents the first phase of the project that won an international competition carried out by AS+ and developed in collaboration with Atelier L+ and TJAD engineering. The project overlaps two sectors, the Intermodal that consists of a ferry-metro-bus-taxi-parking connection organized through a gallery with an amenities area (theater, restaurants, shops…), and the park itself that serves as a leisure area and expansion to the new tertiary and cultural center to be built, in part rehabilitating the historic building, as well as serving the large residential area to be built in the immediate surroundings. The location of the park takes advantage of the best solar orientation and the best views of the bridge, the river and downtown Shanghai skyline.
Second phase Carbon Park
Changes in the political structure during the COVID break have affected the following phases with which they will end up incorporating the park project into the new sports infrastructure aimed at increasing the inclusion of ice sports and slightly rethinking other programs, also incorporating into the design team to architects such as Liu Yichun (Dehaus) and Philip Yuan (Archi-Union), with which we have the honor of working with one of the best representatives of contemporary Chinese architecture, keeping TJAD as the main engineering.
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Architects
Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos.- Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz.
Atelier L+.- Linxue Li.
Archi-Union.- Philip Yuan (Second phase).
Atelier Deshaus.- Liu Yichun (Second phase).
Atelier L+.- Linxue Li.
Archi-Union.- Philip Yuan (Second phase).
Atelier Deshaus.- Liu Yichun (Second phase).
Project team
Jerónimo van Schendel, Teresa Casbas, Andrea Vallés, Sofía Lens, Tania González, Carlos Pascual, Vincenzo Cannata, Simin Tao, He Meiting.
Collaborators
Heritage.- Plácido González, Nuria Enguita, Vicente Todolí.
Facilities.- Aleksandar Ivancic, Oriol Gavalda (Aiguasol).
Engineering.- TJAD- Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and
Design Institute (Second phase).
Facilities.- Aleksandar Ivancic, Oriol Gavalda (Aiguasol).
Engineering.- TJAD- Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and
Design Institute (Second phase).
Area
Green Space.- 24,353 m².
Built Facilities.- 21,400 m².
Built Facilities.- 21,400 m².
Dates
Ending year (First phase).- 2022.
Location
Shanghai, China.
Photography
Zhang Yong.
AS+. ÁBALOS+SENTKIEWICZ ARQUITECTOS
Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos, AS+. Madrid-based architecture practice was founded and led by Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz in 2006. The practice has local offices in Cambridge (USA) and Shanghai (China).
Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz have taught in prestigious university centres such as GSD-Harvard University, Architectural Association, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and ETSAM, combining academic, professional and research activities. Iñaki Ábalos has been Chair of the Department of Architecture at GSD Harvard University and RIBA International Fellowship 2009 (Royal Institute of British Architects). Abalos is currently Chaired Professor at ETSAM.
The projects and built work of Abalos+Sentkiewicz AS+ are internationally recognized and have been the subject of individual exhibitions and many collective exhibitions in the most prestigious centres: GSD Harvard, AA-London, Pavillon de l’Arsenale-Paris, MoMA-NYC (5 built works in three different exhibitions: Light construction, ON Site, Groundswell), Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, etc. This prestige also reflects in the 40 awards received (25 of them first prizes) in architecture competitions. Another 46 awards have been given to different research and design activities, 19 of them to Built Works. Their professional work has been collected in 12 monographs and their theoretical work has been compiled through 12 books. Critic William Curtis has chosen one work of the firm, the Pavilion in the Retiro Park, as one of the three best works built in Spain during the last 30 years.
ATELIER L+. ATELIER L+
ATELIER L+ is an architecture studio founded in the year 2000, focused on architectural practice in the context of urbanization in China. It is dedicated to the multi-scale construction and innovation of Chinese contemporary architecture.
ATELIER L+ has become an active architecture team during 15 years of practice with contemporary Chinese dynamics as a backdrop. There are more than 30 public projects that have been built or are under construction, including city landmarks, urban regeneration, and various types of architectures such as culture, education, office, sports, complex, skyscraper, etc. ATELIER L+ has built a great professional reputation and obtained several important international and national awards through the sustainable production of high-quality works.
ATELIER L+ has become an active architecture team during 15 years of practice with contemporary Chinese dynamics as a backdrop. There are more than 30 public projects that have been built or are under construction, including city landmarks, urban regeneration, and various types of architectures such as culture, education, office, sports, complex, skyscraper, etc. ATELIER L+ has built a great professional reputation and obtained several important international and national awards through the sustainable production of high-quality works.
Philip F. Yuan. Archi-Union Architects
Archi-Union Architects. Founded in 2003 by Dr. Philip F. Yuan (Professor, CAUP, Tongji University), Archi-Union Architects is a Shanghai-based architectural design firm which is a Grade A design qualification certified by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It provides solutions to architectural problems through a combination of academic research and practice, specializing in architecture, urban planning and interior design. Archi-Union employs more than 60 people of all design and construction disciplines and has successfully completed more than 20 projects in the past decade.
Archi-Union has managed to introduce a design style that is an amalgam of the global trends and the local traditional architectural approach. From this stems the low-tech digital fabrication method ‘Digital Tectonics’ which merges the concepts of tectonic construction and ecology that are catalyzed through a parametric design process, in essence combining digital technology and craftsmanship.
Archi-Union’s projects have been reported by many international and national architectural design media, like T+A, UED, UA, Arquitectura Viva, Abitare China, AD China, Dezeen, Archdaily and METALOCUS.
Archi-Union has managed to introduce a design style that is an amalgam of the global trends and the local traditional architectural approach. From this stems the low-tech digital fabrication method ‘Digital Tectonics’ which merges the concepts of tectonic construction and ecology that are catalyzed through a parametric design process, in essence combining digital technology and craftsmanship.
Archi-Union’s projects have been reported by many international and national architectural design media, like T+A, UED, UA, Arquitectura Viva, Abitare China, AD China, Dezeen, Archdaily and METALOCUS.
LIU YICHUN-CHEN YIFENG ATELIER DESHAUS
Atelier Deshaus was founded in Shanghai in 2001. The principal, Liu Yichun was born in 1969, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1997. The principal, Chen Yifeng was born in 1972, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1998.
While winning the architecture awards such as Business Weeks/Architectural Record China Awards (2006), WA Chinese Architecture Awards (2006&2010), FAR EAST Architecture Awards (2010), Deshaus has been involved recently in major international exhibitions on contemporary Chinese Architecture in Shanghai, Paris, Dusseldorf, Bordeaux, Beijing, Shenzhen, Rotterdam, London, Cincinnati, Brussels, Barcelona, Cadiz, Venice, Prague, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc. In 2011, Atelier Deshaus was selected by Architectural Record to be one of the 10 firms in year’s Design Vanguard.
Deshaus believes that pragmatic solutions related to contemporary architecture in China requires a rational approach that is linked to a personal touch. The rational and personalized attempt is closely related to its reproduction of the poetical tradition. Deshaus begins by contemplating on who they are and where they are, and sharply observes what is missing in the history of Chinese modern architecture and searches for the new understanding of reason (Li) which does not cut off its relationship with the traditional philos of poetics and ethics (Qing). Such an ambition requires the engagement in memory through art from a cross-culture perspective, the fusion of Li and Qing.
