Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
BKK led this competition scheme in collaboration with Realm Studios for China’s Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities.
It is a Water Demonstration Park in a former agricultural area that is subject to a high groundwater table, which is typical of the Jiangsu Province and the Yangtze River Delta.
The site’s primary function is an infrastructure corridor accommodating high-voltage power lines and gas pipeline easement. It contains two sets of four steel towers in a row.
The architectural concepts build on the water-based theme applied to the site planning. We used the concepts of spatial addition and subtraction to determine the shapes.
This approach gives primacy to the landscape: it considers the architecture as an urban-realm element among the open spaces, water bodies, landscape and courtyards.
