Stellar Isle | SpActrum
Stellar Isle (Xing Yu) is the largest and most remarkable cultural leisure building in the Chaichanglong (Fairy Li) urban regeneration and reconstruction region in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China. Chaichanglong is the first organic urban regeneration area in Shaoxing’s old town, located directly across from the historic home of revolutionary legend Qiu Jin, with Xianheng Hotel to the east and Pagoda Hill to the north. It has become a full cultural, commercial, and residential complex after five years of rehabilitation and renewal.
© Shengliang Su
During the first visit to the site, the SpActrum team noticed that Chaichanglong was a complex where residential and production buildings from various eras coexisted in an unorganized yet authentic manner. SpActrum thinks that history is a continuous process, not just in time but also in space. As a result, they did not rely simply on heritage markers to choose whether to preserve or demolish. Instead, they saw both conventional and “heritage buildings” as essential components of the site. The only trustworthy text was the site’s material existence, allowing the site’s sense of time to emerge as a continuous and ongoing geological environment, similar to sedimentation in geological layers. © Shengliang Su
Stellar Isle’s Design Concept
Stellar Isle is located on the southern axis of Chaichanglong, where a four-story brick-and-concrete structure once dominated the whole site. However, structu...
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