Jiahong Community Entrance Space
Shanghai CN
TM Studio
2019
Type
Public Space
Tags
public spaces, urban regeneration, renovations, spaces of encounter, urban thresholds
Visitability
Allowed
Description
The entrance greenbelt of Jiahong Community is located at the junction of the town community and the central industrial development zone. The distortion of urban texture in residential and industrial areas resulted in a triangular urban gap. There is a substation in a walled courtyard, a 2-story Community Office Building, and a star-shaped square. It is a typical fragmented urban space - marginalized, closed, and isolated.The core strategy of the renovation design is to activate the existing spatial resources by the precise interventions on the minimal scale to adjust the current circulations and to discover and stimulate the potentials of the existing elements. As the new element, the corridor is the insertion that forms a symbiotic relationship with the original site’s features. The corridor completes and defines the surrounding activity space. It is integrated into different sections and sometimes become a unique space. As a result, the corridor weaves the scattered and fragmented green space into an organic and related complex, which has stimulated the public life of the community residents, reconnecting the fragmented urban space and restoring the broken social relations.(Description provided by the architects)