| Studio 8 Architects |
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95 Greencroft Gardens, London NW6 3PG, UK |
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| Guangming Smart-City: A New Chinese City (2007) |
Shenzhen, China - third prize |
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| Guangming Smart-city covers 7.97 km2 of Shenzhen, China and provides a new urban typology beyond the conventional ‘eco-city’. It aims to provide for 200,000 inhabitants.
Guangming Smart-city continues an agricultural tradition associated with the region, combining urban design and eco-sustainability, arranged into human-scale clusters of housing/farming suburbs in the form of towers and craters conceived as an augmentation of the existing topography. Each suburb is self-sufficient with its own high street, square and individual character. Biogas sky-buses provide a quick hop between urban.
In the centre of the city rests an artificial beach and a canal leading into the revitalised Maozhou River where a reed bed water filtration system is introduced. Lychee orchards border acts as a air filter of the city.
Exhibited at Shenzhen Hong Kong Architecture Biennale (08) + V&A Museum "China Design Now" (08) |
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