Yangtze Star | Shanghai | China | Sparch

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

Macau Studio City | Macau | China | Sparch

Location: Macau, China
Project Status: Feasibility Study
GFA (sqm): 613.000
Client: Cyber One Agents Ltd

The casino serves as a hub for the whole complex. All other programmes are directly linked to and can be accessed from the central casino space. The typology of the hangar serves a model here for an internalised environment that affords spatial excitement, incites a sense of exploration and provides orientation within the complex. The TWA terminal at JFK, and Ken Adam’s film sets for James Bond are relevant precedents to such a space.

The casino, retail, hotel facilities, theatres, and exhibition centre are enveloped by an undulating roof surface that forms an accessible park. This park provides an elevated urban space, high level linkage between the programmes, as well as the hotel’s outdoor facilities.

The hotel and apartments towers connect to the shopping mall and casino below through a dramatic 150 meter tall twisting void. This void both provide light deep into the lower retail spaces as well as creating, physical and visual links between the conventionally disjoint towers and the podium.

The roof structure of the landscape is supported by depressions within the surface forming circular groups of columns. The “eyes” within the landscape provide light down to the podium spaces, and may serve as outdoor courtyard spaces.....more

Zhang Jia Bang Culture Street | Shanghai | China | Sparch

Location: Shanghai, China
Project Status: Design Proposal
GFA (sqm): 13.180
Client: Good Faith Enterprises Limited

Zhang Jia Bang - Street of Culture is a positive fusion of architecture, landscape and urban design into a new landmark destination in Shanghai that serves as a fitting memorial to the creative inspiration of the internationally renowned artist Chen Yifei who commissioned the project.

The design proposal strives to find a balance between the large scale residential developments to the west of the site and the landscaped green environment of the river running parallel to the project. In its essence, the architecture and landscape of the Street of Culture act as a foil between the adjacent development and the river, creating a protected, calm and transformed environment for pedestrian users of the site. Artists’ workshops and cultural institutions are located in a number of smaller pavilions with aspect to the river....more