The project is located in the planned 12 sq. Km??Jiashan High Speed Rail New Town. As the origin location of water street core, the importance is self-evident.

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Architects: Lacime Architects

Location: Jiashan high-speed railway new city, Jiaxing city, Zhejiang, China

Lead Architect: Zhiguo Ren

Design Team: Yong Yang, Guozhen Lin, Na Li

Area: 2200.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Qianxi Zhang

Landscape Design: HWA co.ltd

Interior Design: Interscape co.ltd

Curtain Wall Design: Shanghai Action Facade System Consulting Co., Ltd.

Construction Drawing Design: Zhejiang Hongzheng Architectural Design CO.,LTD.
Client: CFLD.co.ltd

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Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in the planned 12 sq. Km??Jiashan High Speed Rail New Town. As the origin location of water street core, the importance is self-evident.

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The new Water Street rivals the old streets of Xitang. The images of the entire new area are the traditional Chinese-style, Jiangnan ancient architecture. A folk culture center?as iconic architecture, was built using modern construction methods and structural nodes to interpret the spiritual core of the traditional Jiangnan Water Village, so that both the shape and spirit can be achieved.

Analysis

The architecture preserved the space lay...