Y-Loft City Changzhi, Shanxi Province Building, Superimpose Architecture China Images, Architect
Y-Loft City, Changzhi, in Shanxi Province
7 May 2021
Y-Loft City Changzhi Buildings
Design: Superimpose Architecture
Location: Shanxi Province, China

Photos by CreatAR
Y-Loft City, Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China
Superimpose breaks with conventional residential planning in Chinese industrial hinterland by creating three towers that reshape the living community for the post 80?s generation.
Superimpose designed three white sculptural residential loft apartment towers for the so-called Y-generation, focused on quality of life and breaking with the conventional residential development typology. Within months, all apartments were sold for 160% of the surrounding residential market value. The towers are situated on top of a non-gated and community orientated retail village and integrated as part of the Changzhi CBD masterplan, also designed by Superimpose.
The fifty thousand square meters mixed-use development is located in a new CBD district of Changzhi, a fourth tier industrial city in Shanxi Province which is facing rapid urbanisation and has around three million inhabitants. Most often this urbanisation process leads to a cookie-cutter residential typology referring to surrounding precedents instead of focusing on genuinely improving living standards and/ or striving for urban and contextual integration.

Superimpose convinced client and government to deviate from the standar...