Baoshan U World
Mixed Use for CIFI Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd.
The team adopt a penetrable perimeter block for the site. Continuous building facades along city roads defines an active public sidewalk, while multiple paths and small plazas invite people to the site’s heart, an energetic courtyard. This porous layout enhances visual linkage and optimize surrounding riverfront greens. The main functions of the ground floor are community facilities and entertainments to maintain streets alive. Creative office and apartments are located along the side, embracing a community service building at the center of the courtyard, as the social and fitness hub.
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Unique Properties
The team adopt a penetrable perimeter block for the site. Continuous building facades along city roads defines an active public sidewalk, while multiple paths and small plazas invite people to the site’s heart, an energetic courtyard. This porous layout enhances visual linkage and optimize surrounding riverfront greens. The main functions of the ground floor are community facilities and entertainments to maintain streets alive. Creative office and apartments are located along the side, embracing a community service building at the center of the courtyard, as the social and fitness hub.
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Architecture, Office, Facade, Vibrant Community Center, Construction Techniques, Suburb, Shanghai
Production Technology
Structurally speaking, this project selects steel to apply to the whole construction in order to satisfy the proposing purpose. However, the main designing difficulty and innovation point is the combination of steel and window-wall system, especially the protruding window. Another feature of this project is the speeding process, it only takes 4 months to start from planning idea to out-facade material selection, which can be regarded as a more challenging requirement for design and all the specialized teams. The design team chose red brick tile with gray aluminum panel as the major material palette, together with carefully crafted details, to bring a warm and sophisticated urban campus feel to the project.
Design Challenge
The Baoshan U-World project is located in Luodian, Baoshan – a sprawling outer suburb of Shanghai. Although there are many residential neighborhoods nearby, the overall urban planning is the typical suburban model which emphasis automobile efficiency rather than pedestrian convenience. Very wide road red lines and large building setbacks overpower human scale and discourage pedestrian activities. How can a new development generate positive impact to change the status quo from the urban scale? How can the design team give the local community their much needed vibrant public space in this suburban context?
Project Duration
Completion: 2017 Location: Luodian, Baoshan, Shanghai
Operation Flow
The Baoshan U-World has become a successful experiment on infilling mixed-use development in suburban location. With urbanism design approach, the design team have brought more dense, dynamic and quality experiences and helped to reshape the identity of the community.
Inspiration
This project has been developed from the design team critical thinking about the relations among traditional communities, commercial buildings, its users and the nature. It has become a successful experiment on infilling mixed-use development in suburban location. With urbanism design approach, it have brought more dense, dynamic and quality experiences and helped to reshape the identity of the community.
Image Credits
Image #1: Xiu Huo Image #2: Xiu Huo Image #3: Xiu Huo Image #4: Xiu Huo Image #5: Xiu Huo
Project Overview
Baoshan U World Mixed Use has been a Silver winner in the Construction and Real Estate Projects Design award category in the year 2020 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Silver Recognition
Aico Ltd was recognized with the coveted Silver A' Design Award in 2021, a testament to excellence of their work Baoshan U World Mixed Use.
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Baoshan U World: Aico Ltd's Award-Winning Mixed-Use Development in Shanghai
Aico Ltd's Baoshan U World project, completed in 2017, is a successful experiment in infilling mixed-use development in the suburban location of Luodian, Baoshan, Shanghai. With an urban design approach, the project has brought denser, more dynamic, and higher-quality experiences, reshaping the identity of the community.
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