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Urbanitarium [ Urbanism ]

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Spatial Forces

The Sci-Loop

A new generation of Science Park in China.

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August 5, 2020

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Loop Sci-Port is our proposal for this project. It faces the challenge of proposing new answers to three questions from three key visions:

1. Sociopolitical vision: How can a new Shenzhen-Hong Kong community that promotes collaboration be created?

2. Scientific Research vision: How can a new research hub that will become the innovation engine for the Greater Bay Area be created?

3. Urbanistic vision: How can a new spatial strategy be developed that enables a symbiosis between city and nature?

A complex structure on a matrix of lab disciplines, programmed as wet and dry labs:

-Wet labs: Life (biomedical technology) & Matter (microelectronic technology & new material technology).
-Dry labs: Data (Robotics, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence, and Financial Technology).

The basic unit of the project is the grid, created by blocks and patios. Blocks, organized starting from a basic module, have a variable width of between 20 and 30m and the patio has an average size of 36 x 36m. Rising in perpendicular blocks, individual buildings and a mixed 3D grid which combine them where a multi-layered park links the canal, labs, shared spaces, boulevard, and the riverfront.

The science and tech park is embodied through the aggregation of a module: shared knowledge, proximity to nature, commercial activity, neuron clusters, and crossroad meet-up zones. All these scientific and commercial elements are combined with local traditions and nature processes, from the city to the river and from the ground to the sky.

Project Team

This project is in collaboration with Guallart Architects

Guallart Architects
Vicente Guallart, Yang Lei, Honorata Grzesikowska, Firas Safieddine, Elisabet Fabrega

Project Development: Alaa Baroudi, Pablo Fuertes González, Aditi Udupa, Aditya Setalvad, Ran Shabtay, Mahmoud Ragab

Animation team: Firas Safieddine, Elisabet Fabrega, Leon Guallart
Rendering: Firas Safieddine, FRONTOP
Video production and Music : Leon Guallart Díaz
Water Management Consultants: Jochen Scheerer
Graphic Designer: Lina Salamanca

Zhu Tao, Tao Zhu, Cheung King Man Zoe,Ye Dongliang Don, Lu Jierong, He Mu Clara, Lam Hiu Ki Karen, Bao Yuchen Jennie

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