First buildings now occupied in Liangjiang Innovation Zone in Chongqing, China
Construction of the 680-hectare urban district in Chongqing continues at pace, with the first buildings completed and occupied. A large proportion of the significant landscaping and infrastructure is also complete. Masterplanned by Chapman Taylor, this “new area” for the city of Chongqing will complete construction in 2025.
Chongqing greater area has a population of over 34 million people and is one of China’s four centrally governed municipalities. Our masterplan for the Liangjiang Innovation Zone creates a unique sense of place to nurture learning and innovation within a natural environment. Sustainability is embedded in the project in many different ways, including using Sponge City systems to manage water, which involved in particular the introduction of a beautiful new central lake.
Chapman Taylor won a major international design competition to create the new district. Our design won based on the careful integration of the existing ecology with a connected series of five university campuses surrounded by R&D clusters and related facilities and services.
The new central lake
Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone will play a key role alongside other new districts in developing and implementing Chongqing’s smart city strategy and will also collaborate with Chengdu Science City on major national science and technology projects under the auspices of the Western China Science and Technology Innovation Centre.
Masterplan and design concept
The zone will also be home to the Chongqing Institute of Hunan University, which will be a key base for technological and scientific R&D and start-up incubation. Meanwhile, the Innovation Sigma Space has attracted ten application testing teams from important universities such as the Beijing Institute of Technology, East China Normal University and Tongji University.