Pixeland

by | 12 Jun 2019 | Installations & Events, Outdoor, Schools and playgrounds

Public space beautification

Pixeland in Mianyang

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About

Pixe­land by 100architects brings toge­ther a number of diffe­rent outdoor faci­li­ties, inclu­ding play­ground spaces for kids as well as land­sca­ping and enter­tain­ment for adults and fami­lies. Installed in Mian­yang (5.45 million inha­bi­tants), China, the space features a series of multi-purpose ‘pixel’ spaces which create a unique multi-use public plaza. Mian­yang (5.45 million inha­bi­tants) is a key centre for the elec­tro­nics industry located in the northwest of Sichuan Province.

Pixe­land is a public space beau­ti­fi­ca­tion compri­sing a combi­na­tion of diffe­rent outdoor faci­li­ties in a single space, such as land­scape features, play­scape features for kids and leisure features for adults.

The project is inspired by the digital concept of pixels. While a pixel is the smal­lest inde­pen­dent sample of an image with its own RGB or CMYK color infor­ma­tion, it is the combi­na­tion of nume­rous pixels what results in any given digital image.

Architects

100architects
Shanghai

Team: Marcial Jesús, Javier González, Stefanie Schramel, Marta Pinheiro, Lara Broglio, Mónica Páez, Keith Gong

Client

Dongyuan Dichan

Photographs

Amey Kandal­gaonkar

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Pixels

Trans­fer­ring this idea to the spatial orga­niza­tion stra­tegy of the project, 100architects thought of crea­ting a multi­func­tional public space by the addi­tion and combi­na­tion of smaller inde­pen­dent func­tional pixels. While each of the pixels has its own func­tion and charac­te­ristics and could be read as an inde­pen­dent entity, the combi­na­tion of all of them results in a very eye-catching and playful general multi­func­tional public space.

The result is a 1500-square metre public city plaza in a resi­den­tial district of Mian­yang which aims at crea­ting a multi­pur­pose public space.

The main pixel used in the core of the project is a perfect square of 5 x 5 m, as the minimum space to host func­tions suitable for a group of people, while as we get closer to the borders, smaller pixels of 2,5 x 2,5 m and 1,25 x 1,25 m are intro­duced as a modular approach to solve the accesses, the pede­strian circu­la­tion and the land­scape in the border.

Address

Binjiang East Road
Youxian District
Mian­yang City
CN-Sichuan Province

Aerial view

Equipment

Surrounded by small pixels of gree­nery as a border solu­tion to provide privacy and safety confi­ning the play­scape, the plaza is also equipped with lounge resting areas, picnic areas with seats & tables, seating box struc­tures to provide shadow, sunken communal benches, sloped lawns to lay down and small amphi­thea­ters for gathe­rings.

Besides the leisure features, Pixe­land also counts with a wide range of playful features scat­tered around, culmi­nated with a voxel­ated Horse-themed play­ground in the middle of the plaza, for the joy and enter­tain­ment of the younger visi­tors.

The checkered plaza has been deve­loped in a multi­level way, provi­ding an inte­res­ting arti­fi­cial topo­graphy growing in height towards the center, where the voxel­ated horse is stra­te­gi­cally placed on the top.

Opening

2019

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  • Dipl.-Ing. (engi­nee­ring degree) Archi­tect, TU Berlin
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  • Plan­ning of the Prus­sian Stadium in Münster (for groß­mann engi­neers, Göttingen)
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Red Carpet

by | 8 May 2018 | Design, Outdoor, Outdoor

Dream a little dream (of me)

Red Carpet in Shanghai

East Nanjing Road

Red Carpet is located in Shanghai, on East Nanjing road’s Century Square, the most famous and glamo­rous pede­strian street in the “heart” of the city center. The essence of this street is its commer­cial status, which was histo­ri­cally deve­loped as a link between East and West, connec­ting directly the port with the city, ther­e­fore used as the prin­cipal trading plat­form, beco­ming a cultural and social active axis.

These features and its conse­quences on space have remained till now, being today the commer­cial street in Shanghai per excel­lence, constantly recei­ving thou­sands of pede­strians, locals and tourists, enjoying the exis­ting multi­cul­tural mixture and its commer­cial stores. Curr­ently, the Century Square is a flat car-free open area that also contains a small perfor­mance stage rarely used during most of the year. It is the only area with this condi­tion in the whole east Nanjing road but it lacks of an attractor, a land­mark for its urban scape.

Red Carpet

The project offers a diffe­rent rela­ti­onship with the public perfor­mance acti­vi­ties, enga­ging with the original func­tion, but also related with a circu­la­tion corridor and expo­sing its seats as a massive inclined plaza towards Nanjing road.

This produces a very intense segment in the pede­strian Nanjing road. The object’s shape contains the space adding new proper­ties. This action trans­forms this segment of East Nanjing in a highly stimu­la­ting space, enga­ging the proprio­cep­tion of the passersby.

Architect

100 archi­tects
Shanghai

Author

100 archi­tects

Dream of fame

The Red Carpet is a space plat­form that incor­po­rates the dream of fame and reco­gni­tion into the exis­ting social dyna­mics in East Nanjing road. It is an open amphi­theater, where the show is massi­fied, invi­ting passersby to enjoy vibrant shows in a surreal atmo­sphere of design, jewelry and glamour. The red land­scape offers strong iden­tity and ther­e­fore remar­kable expe­ri­ences. This atmo­sphere is achieved through the aesthe­tics of the project, which resem­bles a red carpet of giant propor­tions, folding from the store­fronts of the buil­ding at the north, top to bottom gene­ra­ting a cavity in the same commer­cial axis.

The covered space on the south, under the seats struc­ture, has two diffe­rent uses. A more exposed area in direct contact with the passersby, works as an open market using the struc­ture itself as suns­hade protec­tion. While the inner area under the struc­ture is used as a small bar, with public toilets and others amen­i­ties.

Space and structure

The struc­ture is made of metal trusses that gene­rate the support for the precast concrete blocks that build the hori­zontal seating, while the other elements are built on red wood and red metal panels.

In the front part, the vertical metal struc­ture is cove­ring the buil­dings with perfo­rated metal panels allo­wing plenty of light and air flows from the exte­rior, which enables to gain this massive surface for public amuse­ments, projec­tions and back­ground for perfor­mances.

In the first 2 levels there are openings provi­ding acces­si­bi­lity to the exis­ting retail, even incre­asing its market value.

Thus, the project serves as a unified plat­form for socia­liza­tion, where the common dream of a luxu­rious life becomes true; trans­forming common expe­ri­ences into parti­cular desired ones. The Red Carpet can modify social dyna­mics, trans­forming tradi­tional spaces into parti­cular valuable ones.

Dawn Bridge in Zhujiajiao

by | 17 Feb 2018 | Design, Design, Outdoor

Bridge with grandstand

Dawn Bridge in Zhujiajiajiao

Site

The site of Dawn Bridge lies between the old town of Zhuji­a­jiao and new resi­den­tial deve­lo­p­ments, between the exis­ting crossings of the Fang­s­heng Bridge (a land­mark since 1571) and the Qingpu Bridge (a low-key modern road bridge). Zhuji­a­jiao is a water town on the outskirts of Shanghai, and was estab­lished about 1,700 years ago. Archaeo­lo­gical findings dating back 5,000 years have also been found. 36 stone bridges and nume­rous rivers line Zhuji­a­jiao, and many ancient buil­dings still line the river­banks today.

Lightness and elegance

Given that Dawn Bridge should estab­lish a rela­tion with the histo­rical and calm surroun­ding, the height of cons­truc­tion is kept inten­tio­nally low. The vertical alignment defines the sense of light­ness and elegance of a bridge. MVRDV aimed at provi­ding a graceful low curve above the water to blend with the land­scape. Beyond blen­ding, the aim is to provide a bridge for ever­y­body. By keeping the vertical alignment to a max and a slope of 8%, the bridge becomes acces­sible to all people whether on foot or on wheels (bicy­cles and wheel­chairs).

Architect

MVRDV bv Achterklooster 7 NL — 3011 RA Rotterdam

Client

Zhujiajiao Municipality

Team

Design MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries
Design Team Wenchian Shi, Marta Pozo, Lorenzo Mattozzi with Wenzhao Jia, Cosimo Scotucci, Jose Sanmartin, Enrico Pintabona, Chi Zhang, Artemis Maneka, Cai Zheli, Ray Zhu, Jammy Zhu and Alice Huang
Visualization Antonio Luca Coco, Davide Calabrò, Giovanni Coni and Pavlos Ventouris

Author

MVRDV

Photograph

© MVRDV

Aerial view

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Delicate surrounding

The bridge further estab­lishes a rela­tion with the deli­cate surroun­ding by absor­bing its palette of colours and mate­rials. The grey roofs are recalled by the grey asphalt, while the white walls are expressed by the white bridge struc­ture. The reddish wood of houses and boats becomes the cover of the pede­strian deck and landings. Finally, the green of water and nature appears in form of trees on top of the deck as in the Fang­s­heng Bridge.

The bridge favours the view over the old town of Zhuji­a­jiao and maxi­mizes the space available for pede­strians. While giving prio­rity to pede­strians, the bridge also considers the driver expe­ri­ence as it winds slightly to provide ever-chan­ging perspec­tives of the surroun­ding.

Grandstand

To mini­mize the noise and air pollu­tion coming from the road bridge, the middle truss is cladded and covered by a new struc­ture: the flat deck morphs into a tridi­men­sional struc­ture and becomes a tribute. The grand­stand provides a viewing plat­form and a gathe­ring place over­loo­king the water.

To provide a passage along the river­front, the landings become stair­cases that allow pede­strians to cross on top. In addi­tion, the landings them­selves become a place for obser­ving and reaching the water. By connec­ting directly to the water, the bridge connects with the river and the network of canals that form and iden­tify Zhuji­a­jiao. The inau­gu­ra­tion of the bridge will start a virtuous process of brin­ging life and acti­vi­ties along the river banks.

Living room

The Fang­s­heng Bridge is already a land­mark and a tourist attrac­tion. The new link will be striking in its own right, without overs­ha­dowing history. It will serve the purpose of appre­cia­ting the surroun­ding: not just a link, but a new urban item.

The bridge eleva­tion is a new horizon and the tribune a new light rising from it: they will reflect the first light of every morning in Zhuji­a­jiao. The Dawn Bridge will be will a living room and an active part of the commu­nity, allo­wing people to gather, cele­brate and contem­p­late the river land­scape.

Zhangjiang Future Park

by | 28 Jan 2018 | Design, Sports Centres

Social Catalyzer

Zhangjiang Future Park in Shanghai

Location

Zhang­jiang Hi-Tech Park is located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was estab­lished in 1992 as a site for busi­ness enter­prises, R&D compa­nies and educa­tion insti­tu­tions who operate within the world of high-tech­no­logy and inno­va­tion. Over time many national and inter­na­tional compa­nies have chosen to settle there and today there are appro­xi­m­ately 4,000 compa­nies and over 100,000 workers in the area.

Besides being a busi­ness and indus­trial park, Zhang­jiang Hi-Tech Park is also a resi­den­tial neigh­bour­hood for the workers’ fami­lies. The Zhang­jiang commu­nity is ther­e­fore mostly consti­tuted by highly educated people who work and study in the area. The goal of Zhang­jiang Future Park is to provide the commu­nity with public faci­li­ties that are lacking in the area: a social centre where people can meet, gather, talk, learn, play and enjoy each other’s company in a high-quality and beau­tiful setting.

Architect

MVRDV bv
Achterklooster 7
NL-3011 RA Rotterdam

Zhangjiang Future Park

The MVRDV project for Zhang­jiang Future Park aims at inser­ting a new urban complex that on the one hand expresses Zhangjiang’s current character and on the other hand expresses its future ambi­tions. Zhang­jiang Future Park will be located on an island, at the cross­roads of valuable green areas and water bodies. The concept stems from a combi­na­tion of nature, culture, enter­tain­ment and sports.

A smart combi­na­tion of these aspects is at the core of the proposal. High-quality public space and leisure acti­vi­ties are inte­grated in a park setting. The proposal combines the rela­xa­tion coming from a natural setting with the intense exci­te­ment of a city centre. Zhang­jiang Future Park consists of a vertical laye­ring of the two condi­tions. Park lawns and urban plazas are set at two diffe­rent levels and have very diffe­rent and reco­gnizable charac­ters. They are strongly connected by multiple paths that allow visi­tors to easily move from one to the other. Toge­ther they form a new hybrid morpho­logy which responds flexibly to the needs of the Zhang­jiang commu­nity at any time of the week.

Team

Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries
Wenchian Shi, Marta Pozo Gil with Marco Gazzola, Lorenzo Mattozzi, Enrico Pintabona, Chiara Giro­lami, Shengjie Zhan, Cai Zheli, Cosimo Scotucci, Wenzhao Jia, Emma Rubeillon, Chi Zhang, Ray Zhu, Chi Li
Antonio Luca Coco, Paolo Mossa Idra, Costanza Cuccato, Davide Calabrò, Pavlos Ventouris, Tomaso Maschi­etti

Master plan

Integration

The buil­ding volumes gently blend into the land­scape and provide the park with acti­vi­ties. Multiple access points converge towards the main central square, provi­ding each a diffe­rent percep­tion of the site. The design proposal forms an intri­guing silhou­ette, a reco­gnizable coll­ec­tion of buil­dings that emerge from the park: a crack in the land­scape that produces urban life. People are able to walk not just around the buil­dings, but even on top of them, ther­e­fore expe­ri­en­cing radi­cally diffe­rent perspec­tives of the site. The green roofs programme is as lively and diverse as the park programme and strongly inte­grated with the buil­dings’ func­tions.

Zhang­jiang Future Park is formed by four large public buil­dings, a library, an art centre, a perfor­mance centre and a sport centre. Toge­ther they offer an outstan­ding array of cultural and enter­tai­ning services within a very short walking distance in between them.

Client

Zhangjiang Group Co. Ltd.

Author

MVRDV bv
Achterklooster 7
NL-3011 RA Rotterdam
AXONOMETRY

The sports centre

The sports centre offers two main acti­vity areas, one related to water sports and the other to ball games. A common entrance leads to both, the olym­pionic swim­ming pool and the multi­func­tional sports hall. The 10,000 m² of sport faci­li­ties will be exposed to the land­scape and the natural light, making an indoor match feel like an outdoor event.

Address

Zhangjiang District
CN-Shanghai

Aerial view

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