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Zixuan Zhang

Zixuan Zhang

New York, NY, US

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TECH-ART STUDIOS

Shenzhen Bay port, a significant nodal located on the border connecting both Hong Kong and Shenzhen, has a great number of visitors passing by everyday. However, there has been plenty of underutlized parking space left due to the deviation estimated initially, with almost 70% of the land left idle here. What we aim to do is to bridge SZ and HK functionally, extending people activities from city to the coast. Bringing together places to live and work with high-tech incubators, art galleries, cafes and restaurants. 

Shenzhen Bay Port always looks out of place in its neighborhood. Due to its single function and oversized scale, people have no reason to stay here. Thus, our big idea is to create a merging port on the border, bridging the city to the coast unconsciously. We propose walkability in blocks to make a more friendly interface facing the city. Pink axes are going to become the main vibrant street going through the entire site and closely integrated with the neighborhood. The inserted high-tech cultural facilities adopt a curve form different from the traditional rectangular building, making it a new landmark of the port.


 
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Status: School Project
Location: Shenzhen, CN
My Role: group leader; conceptual design, master planning, public space and lanscape design, rendering and modeling, social analysis