Location: Shanghai, China
Project Status: Design Competition
GFA (sqm): 58,696
Client: SIIC Dongtan Investment & Development (Holdings) Co., Ltd.
The Yangtze STAR is designed to reduce negative impacts on the Environment, and enhance the health and comfort of residents and visitors to Dongtan. Our basic objectives are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create a healthy, productive environments. The STAR is a holistic response to our surroundings, a clean building supplying clean energy.
What the STAR offers is a visually stunning campus-park with, at its heart, an energy station able to use a multiplicity of fuels including waste or grown biomass, and waste streams from Dongtan City together with wind-power and solar energy. The energy station will be designed in a future-proofed context, with in-built flexibility to exploit developments in energy technology.
The Yangtze STAR is inspired by the meandering journey of this great river, reflecting the story of China’s History, Culture and Industry. A central ‘River of Energy’ flows through the site, home to the Visitor Attraction Islands and Greenhouse of the Future. Seeds dispersed by this ‘River’ become the Energy Generators, feeding the needs of the new Eco City........more
