Jiaxing Island, Shanghai Mixed-Use Building, Chinese Architecture Development, Images
Jiaxing Island in Shanghai
Mixed-Use Development, China ? design by MORE Architecture and AIM
16 Feb 2017
Jiaxing Island Mixed-Use Development
Design: MORE Architecture and AIM
Location: Jiaxing Island, Shanghai, China
Jiaxing Island: Challenging Conventional Chinese Urbanism

Shanghai-based Dutch design firms offer bold alternative to repetition and large scale

With their design for the mixed-use building Jiaxing Island the Shanghai-based offices MORE Architecture and AIM Architecture challenge the conventional notions of urbanization in China. By interpreting the assignment for a clubhouse into a small village, the architects shaped a human scale environment with public space at the heart of the project and created a truly people-oriented architecture.
On the fringe of quickly urbanizing Jiaxing, a one million-inhabitant city between Shanghai and Hangzhou, this complex finds itself in a ferociously dynamic context. The radical transformation, from countryside to densely built environment, had an immense impact on the scale of the urban fabric: from S to XL in less than a decade.

Jiaxing Island challenges a couple of the classic urban concepts in China, such as the enormous scale, the north-south orientation, the car-dominated streets, and the square as an expression of power. This project offers a car free urban village with multi-layered functions and emphasis on public space.
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