Longnan Garden estate in Shanghai wanted to escape the "virus" of boring Chinese housing
Our next Social Housing Revival case study is Atelier GOM's Shanghai Longnan Garden estate, the first social-housing project in China to abandon high-rise towers.
Located in Shanghai's central Xuhui district, the 100,000-square-metre Longnan Garden estate was completed in 2017.
Commissioned by the district's state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission as low-rent housing, it comprises one commercial building and seven residential buildings containing a total of 2,000 homes.
Longnan Garden estate comprises seven residential buildings. Photo by He Wei
Four seven-storey buildings at the north part of the complex adopt a U-shaped semi-enclosed courtyard layout, while the three blocks at the south feature step-down roofs, varying between seven storeys to 17 storeys in height. This approach was a significant departure from the high-rise-tower format that has long dominated China's housing landscape.
Four of the buildings at the north of the site adopt a U-shaped semi-enclosed courtyard layout
Jiajing Zhang, chief architect at Shanghai-based architecture studio Atelier GOM, explained that this prevalence of point blocks in Chinese housing is a result of minimum sunlight requirements.
"In China, all housing must meet stringent sunlight requirements to ensure each apartment unit within a residential complex receives minimum sunlight during the day, which presents a significant challenge when it comes to designing a housing form," he told Dezeen.
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