"Water + Bridge"——Shanghai Baoye Center

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Architects: LYCS Architecture

Location: Shanghai, China

Project Team: RUAN Hao, ZHAN Yuan, Gary He, LI Yan, TONG Chaochao, JIN Shanliang, Devin Jernigan

Architect Of Record: Zhejiang Baoye Architecture Design and Research Institute SINOBAU

Area: 27394.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

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"Water + Bridge"——Shanghai Baoye CenterShanghai Baoye Center is part of the phase-2 urban development scheme for the new Central Business District in Hongqiao, a rapidly developing piece of western Shanghai. The location of the project puts it at the center of car, train, and jet transportation, and is in fact the last building one sees before entering the busy Hongqiao High-Speed Rail Terminal from the south by bullet train, granting the project a significant urban presence.The site has several challenging conditions: sandwiched by two city-designated temporary green spaces into an L shape, with a 60% frontage ratio requirement to the east, west and south, and a 24m tall highway overpass running adjacent to its north face, the building must respond to a maximum FAR of 1.60 and a height of 24m.
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In dealing with these conditions, There are many attempts within the design process, it’s more like finding breakthroughs within the limitations...