Landscape Design of Hony Tower / ASPECT Studios
Landscape Structure of Hony Tower / Aspect Studios
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Textual content description supplied by the architects. Part Studios has knitted a Shenzhen skyscraper into the urban material of the city’s Qianhai district by making an urban retreat comprising a lush landscape and an lively city boundary.
The undertaking sets a new normal for business and residential environments in Shenzhen, by emphasizing the encounter of its end users, somewhat than grandeur and spectacle. The HONY Tower City Retreat is a specific, tactile space that stimulates the senses. Composed of a set of outside areas that have a tranquil, human-scale environment, the park features a biophilic natural environment that insulates people from the active environment by an elevated connection to nature.
The foundation of the style and design is the concept that the landscape is the foundation of the Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates-developed HONY Tower. Where by the tower satisfies the floor, it passes the baton to the landscape, changing the scale of the constructed expertise into a extra human 1. The landscape protects its occupants from the hustle and bustle of the streets by creating a secluded retreat, utilizing new planting to produce a green threshold, defined by comprehensive energetic edges populated with meticulously crafted stone sofas. At the identical time, the municipal roads and new multi-practical community room are built-in with the new landscape, building the place a all-natural extension of the road.
A refined, robust, and unified expression of materiality is used persistently all through the landscape, connecting the horizontal encounter with the architectural expression of the HONY Tower. At the exact same time, these product alternatives do the job to deal with the environmental pressures faced in Shenzhen, wherever summers are warm and humid and beset by typhoons.
Stephen Buckle, Studio Director at Component Studios, mentioned the design and style results in a sheltered, intimate expertise. “The project responds to the community microclimate, the depth of metropolis existence, and a wish to foster a more wonderful-grain relationship to the two superior-increase towers and their urban scale and proportions.”
