The Horizon High Land Park & Civic Center is a historic structure undergoing rehabilitation. The project is situated near the Beiyang Railway Branch Line, a railroad that passes through Shanghai’s downtown, in Gaojing Town, Baoshan District, Shanghai. It is built on an abandoned railroad freight station. Road traffic intersects the land, dividing it into an unutilized, forgotten area within the city.
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The New Horizon High Land Park & Civic Center’s Design Concept
It is necessary to encapsulate the existing building before beginning construction. Folding, twisting, and tightly enclosing the historic building, we abstract the earth’s natural state into the building’s original enclosed skin space. The two interfaces that make up the skin are the interior and outside, and they can merge into one another when the skin rotates. © CreatAR Images
The fifth facade of the entity is the extension and enlargement of the park interface; the vertical interface of the roof park slope naturally forms the linear lighting window of the lower exhibition hall. The internal wrapping space, formed after the enclosure, is the solid part of the entire exhibition space, the generation of the entity and the park in one go. The original concrete floor is broken.
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The roof’s path reshapes the original site’s public space, and the building’s piercing path at the base links the broken-up urban area that the structure or...