Bao’an Coastal city Shenzhen [CN]

KCAP has won the 3rd prize in the Shenzhen Bao'an G107 competition. KCAP, in cooperation with Lay-Out from Shenzhen, developed a strategic framework for the self-evolving incremental regeneration of new urban commons in Shenzhen's economic corridor. G 107 is a national Chinese highway which will be transformed into UBG 107 - Urban Breeding Ground 107 - a varied and urban concourse, a comprehensive assemblage of tunnels, boulevards and various green and water spaces with dedicated diversity in its transport organization, appearance and urban integration. Combined with a new public transport network it provokes the development of rich and complex urban networks of the entire zone. Where the existing highway is a ‘vector line’, UBG 107 becomes a ‘pixel’, a smart and intelligent breeding ground for urbanity. Where the existing highway is a ‘lifeless line’, UBG 107 is a lively line staging a rich variety of places, centres, connections and networks. It allows the city, communities and landscape to coexist and overlap, to breath and be present in the future. The present distinctive strengths will be the starting points for its future. Building on its special assets, attributes and advantages the concept combines those with a strategy of ‘platforms’ and ‘ecosystems’. Platforms are public urban environments which offer new possibilities for collaboration and exchange, creating new starting points for a future economy, e.g. in information technology, biotech, digital media or robotic production. Transforming the existing industrial pieces on the site into larger industrial ecosystems of linked (innovative) activities will make the integration of new starting points more effective and also result in more economic resilience in the various clusters. Rethinking G 107 implied progressing the function, the shape and structure of its ‘economy’, to unveil its distinctive strength and to find new starting points for its future economy and existing industries ...

KCAP has been selected as 1 of 6 international teams for the Shenzhen Bao'an G107 competition. The designated area strechtes 30 km along national highway G107 and is one of the most important axes in Shenzhen city. As the golden corridor it connects Guqngdong and Hong Kong and the heartland for development of Great Pearl River Delta. The task is to take G107 and Bao'an Avenue and Metroline 1 as the skeleton. The Golden Development Belt will be constructed into a highland to lead regional industrial transformation and upgrading, a scientific and technological innovation service zone on Pearl River Delta, as well as an important economic growth engine for Bao'an District. KCAP teams up with Lay-Out from Shenzhen with whom we successfully cooperated on the Shenzhen Bao'an Coastal City Masterplan in 2014. The 6 participants are: KCAP + Lay-Out Planning Institute Shenzhen Planning Institute + OMA + Shenzhen Transportation Institute Zhubo + ISA Germany + HongDa Transportation Institute Shenzhen Planning and Development Research Center+ NIKKEN SEKKEI China Planning Institute + MLA+ +Shenzhen Infrastructure Planning Institute Guangzhou Planning Institute + AP Germany + Shanghai QianTian Industry Research Center

Bao'an Water City Shenzhen by KCAP in cooperation with LAY-OUT and Atelier Dreiseitl published in current World Landscape Architecture magazine WLA24.

KCAP Architects & Planners in cooperation with LAY-OUT Shenzhen and Atelier Dreiseitl Beijing has been awarded in the international conceptual design competition Bao’an Coastal city Masterplan in Shenzhen, China. The design is the result of the second round of the competition in which Team KCAP participated as one of 8 shortlisted participants out of more than 90 international submissions. The award included 1Million RMB price money and a position in the further development of the project. Bao’an Coastal zone is located along the Pearl River delta. The area already contains many new developments including Shenzhen Bao’an Airport, major ports, terminals, new railways and roads and QianHai, a new city district around a new bay. ‘Due to the ‘hard and fast’ developments much of this landscape has vanished, the original coastline has already moved up by sometimes 5 kilometers and the development up until now has led to a harsh urban landscape dominated by large scale infrastructure and poor urban and landscape qualities,’ says Ruurd Gietema, urban planner and partner of KCAP. Baoan sits along the large Pearl River Delta but used to be a delta in itself with 45 different creeks and rivers streaming through the area.  ‘Our project embraces this ‘forgotten’ supply of fresh water’ continues Ruurd Gietema. ‘Via ‘REPAIR BY DEVELOPMENT’ we transform it into an fresh water network which complements the salt water coastline with an extensive network of fresh and brackish water and green spaces’. The water network consists of different character and water features: the salty sea water, various biotope zones for river purification, lakes as water reservoir, fresh water bays, mangrove banding zone as brackish water mixed with sea and fresh water, various canals and streams, water detention parks and so on. The fresh water network also position an agenda for regeneration of the wider territory together ...