Aquaculture Park Agriturismo Education Centre by Siu Man Chan - Urbitect Works |
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| DESIGN NAME: Aquaculture Park PRIMARY FUNCTION: Agriturismo Education Centre INSPIRATION: The project is located in the south of Huizhou city centre on the peninsula of the Pinghai Village. The masterplan strategy proposes to strengthen the character of the existing aquaculture fish farms and creating an adherent relationship between the newly proposed program with the existing landscape. The projects is inspired by the principles of ESD ecological sustainable development which aims to minimize the impact to the existing site. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Rural land and natural vegetation are becoming rare sight for Chinese People in era of rapid urbanization. Future generations are becoming more disconnected and less understanding of food production. The vision of the project is to create a place where families and children can reconnect with nature and understanding its value in providing humans with adequate resources. The existing site for the project is a currently operating Aquaculture farm. The agri-tourism masterplan proposes a new educational centre, recreational centre and eco-house. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The project helps the client to establish an overall masterplan framework to follow through into future detail design of buildings, landscape planting strategy, pedestrian and vehicular strategy and development phasing PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: May - July 2017, Hong Kong SAR, China |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Overall colour masterplan is completed in Adobe Photoshop. The CGIs are completed through a combination of sketchup, 3D Max and photoshop. The diagrams are drawn in adobe illustrator and the report is compiled in adobe indesign. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The project is approximately 23.5 hectare in site area. The existing land use consist of 47.8% area of aquacultural water farms, 20% natural vegetation, 11.3% arable farmlands, 3.7% waterways, 2.8% pathways for pedestrian, 0.3% building footprint and 14% vacant land. The overall configuration of site is 640m long x 380m width and with a 6-12m maximum building height. The overall floor to area ratio (FAR) of the proposal is 0.058 with a total gross floor area (GFA) 13,700 square metres. TAGS: Aquaculture, ecology, agriculture, tourism, recreational, Rural China RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The research methodology for the projects involves studying the Government regional and local urban masterplans. Site analysis also involves studying the surrounding context and also the internal existing landforms, vegetations, buildings, etc of the site. Precedent cases of agritourism projects is also critical part of the masterplan study. Finally, a massing analysis of future building blocks are studied in terms of density, number of blocks, no of stories, building layout and location. CHALLENGE: The greatest challenge of the project is how we approach the treatment and modification to an existing aquaculture farm with a proper phasing and time completion plan firstly to minimize the interference to the current operation, but more importantly to create a strong sense of place for tourism purposes. ADDED DATE: 2018-01-16 23:30:28 TEAM MEMBERS (5) : Leading Designer: Siu Man Chan, Urban Designer: Yuepeng Bao, Intern: Ricky Lip, Project Architect: Zhang Chen and Project Manager: Tang Shen Lan IMAGE CREDITS: Siu Man Chan - Urbitect Works, 2017. |
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NAME: Gamesome PROFILE: Gamesome Design was founded in 2014 by a multi-disciplinary group of architects, planners, interior designers and engineers. The diversified team base in Shenzhen Gamesome is able provides the client with full extend of design consultancy service from architecture, interior design, project management to engineering consultation. Gamesome is dedicated on both innovative design, strong project delivery and project management. |
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Aquaculture Park Agriturismo Education Centre by Siu Man Chan-Urbitect Works is Winner in Urban Planning and Urban Design Category, 2017 - 2018.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Siu Man Chan - Urbitect Works. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Siu Man Chan - Urbitect Works. |
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