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Ningbo Yongjiang Innovation Centre News
29 July 2020
Ningbo Yongjiang Innovation Centre Building
Architects: RMJM RED

RMJM RED win competition for Ningbo-based Innovation Centre
29th of July 2020 – RMJM RED have won a competition for a mixed-use development that will become the Ningbo Yongjiang Innovation Centre. The studio?s design is a response to the unique setting that is at a threshold between the urban and the natural. The site is framed by Zhongshan East road to the south and Houtang River to the north.

The team envisaged the development as an archipelago of islands rising out of and energised by the river. The arrangement of these building ?islands? encourages unrestricted movement around the development at the ground level and offers a unique street-level experience.
The masterplan is organised as an urban oasis with sheltered communal spaces nestled between the North and South buildings. Through the East-West orientation of the development are public spaces and parks to ground the buildings in their natural environment. All the elements are tied together by a feature platform on the second level which provides a vehicle-free connection between the towers and offers access to elevated views out towards the Houtang River, Ming Lake and surrounding parks.

?The challenge was to find the balance between privacy and permeability, between creating a development that sat ha...