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Liu Jiang New City (2011)

Liu Jiang New City (2011)

Project Data
 
Site Area:   15.000.000m2
Total GFA:   21.000.000m2
Location:   Liuzhou, China
Land Use:   Entire New City
Features:   Unique rural-urban identity integrating flood control, social patterns and local economy
Scope:   Urban Design, Master Plan, Regulatory Planning Consulting
Status:   In construction
 
Project Summary
 
Most of the New City area is a current swamp with numerous waterways and regular flooding. At the same time, the district is situated in a wide valley plain with stunning views to the surrounding world famous Caster Mountains of Guang Xi Province. This new development will expand and complement the existing main city, Liu Zhou, around 10km to the north.

The Urban Master Plan is developed along 5 interrelated steps which generate a unique identity of the new city area and guarantee making the best use of the site’s potentials and inherent qualities:
 
  • Existing waterways linked up and embedded in larger landscaped flood plains throughout entire site and beyond
  • This results in a low-level continuous ECO-Network undisturbed by roads, linking entire community and adjacent city
  • The open, un-built ECO-Network provides a blueprint to generate View Corridors to mountains within and beyond the site
  • CBD and Public Centers are placed like islands, connected by a rigid road grid contrasting the organic ECO-Network
  • ECO-Network is used as main space for high-performance public transport connection for entire district

Based on this strategy and the positioning of Liu Jiang as the “Backgarden” of Liu Zhou, an entire catalogue of building typologies has been developed in parallel to the land use and zoning design. Most notably, these categories span from conventional functions such as “residential”, “office” etc. to open spaces, public spaces and infrastructure, such as bridges. It also includes distinct hybrid categories which emphasize and encourage more direct relations between living, working, daily necessity and vivid civic life.
 
New Transportation Strategies developed in cooperation with Department of Industrial and Transportation Design, University Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany.
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