Yancheng Vertical Forest
Yancheng, China
- Architects
- Ippolito Fleitz Group – Identity Architects
- Location
- Yancheng, China
- Year
- 2016
Sustainable comfort, prefabricated complex forms and a house you can’t see for the trees.
Yancheng lies around 300 km northwest of Shanghai. We have developed a completely new residential area in a growth zone of this prosperous city of 1.7 million inhabitants. The residential complex is state of the art throughout, and aims to be a role model for urban development. In cooperation with our partner CEG Schwarzwald, our concept responds to the specific requirements of the Chinese market. We have created space for a modern lifestyle, which combines the highest levels of comfort with a healthy environment and close proximity to nature. The private residential worlds are embedded within a public area, which serves as a centre for art and culture, and itself aims to become an urban landmark. The future residents of the complex thus become a part of their very own, modern life philosophy.
The architectural concept behind the residential towers was developed by rotating an iconographic storey element. This enabled us to formulate a sophisticated architectural design while attaining an around 80% degree of prefabrication.
Client
CEG Schwarzwald
Status
Project (2016)
Team
Daniel Cano, Gunter Fleitz, Peter Ippolito, Kamil Kaczmarek, Adalbert Kapp, Luca Leardini, Jörg Lonkwitz, Paula Poveda, Robert Pruim, Ziheng Wu
Partner
Drees & Sommer AG
Lifestylegreen
Munitec GmbH
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