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Zixuan Zhang

Zixuan Zhang

New York, NY, US

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XINQIAO SMART & INNOVATIVE CITY

The key urban renewal unit in the eastern part of Xinqiao is the largest comprehensive industrial land renewal project initiated by Shenzhen. It gradually promotes the popularizing model of industrial land upgrade and transformation in the context of the Great Bay Area. In this international competition, Swooding was shortlisted independently and competed with eight design institutions or consortiums such as Rogers, KCAP, Hassel, CAUPD, UPDIS.

Swooding started space strategy with the model unit of "Transformation Between Intelligence & Industry" supporting future manufacturing evolves with a new proposed policy - Mx, on mixed-use industrial land. The mixture of the Industrial Transfomation model and the Mx policy resulted in a duplicatable "Xinqiao Innovative Mode", which was named "Xinqiao Intelligence-Industry Convert Chain City".

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Location: Shenzhen, CN
My Role: sectional design and rendering; conceptual design; market analysis; 2D diagram drawings.