New images released for Chongqing Liangjiang innovation zone masterplan in China
More detailed imagery has been created to showcase Chapman Taylor’s masterplan for a new urban innovation zone in Chongqing Liangjiang, central China.
Liangjiang has been chosen by the Chinese government as a developmental ‘new area’ for Chongqing, which has a population of nearly 18 million people and is one of China’s four centrally-governed municipalities.
Chapman Taylor’s competition-winning design for the 6.8km2 site creates a series of campuses and R&D clusters, connected to each other via landscaped walkways, all surrounding a central lake and a collaborative innovation zone called ‘The Centre of Ideas’. The campuses feature university-style courtyards, with a series of public and private spaces semi-enclosed by undulating perimeter walls which imitate the meandering path of the nearby rivers.
A series of hillside and waterfront residential, hospitality and cultural villages will be developed as part of the masterplan, each with distinct characters and spatial characteristics. There will also be retail, leisure, F&B, hotels, cultural and civic buildings – all served by a railway/metro hub, new roads, paths and cycleways, water taxis, electric buses and trams.
Sustainability is a core element of the design, which plans for extensive green space, solar energy production, hydroelectric power, smart technology, geothermal energy use, natural ventilation and a biomass power plant.
The new district, strategically located on the Yangtze River development belt, is designed to integrate sympathetically with its beautiful, mountainous surroundings, providing a high-quality living and working environment for the rapidly growing Chongqing region.
