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Olympic Park's South Edge Masterplan

This is a project by KCAP Architects&Planners and it is located at Beijing, China. There are five images for Olympic Park's South Edge Masterplan.

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Designer's statement

KCAP Architects&Planners has won the prestigious masterplanning competition for the development of a 50 hectares site at the southern edge of the Olympic Park in Beijing, China. Together with its local design partner, the Beijing Institute for Architectural Design (BIAD), KCAP proposed a large scale development which is embedded in the urban context of the city and connects the site to the emerging transport nodes along the newly built metro line.

The new city quarter introduces new uses to the area. It will house a variety of functions ranging from mainly residential and office spaces to retail and other commercial functions, two public transport hubs with bus interchange and metro station, and a series of hotels as well as cultural and community facilities. The proposed urban lay-out respects Chinese traditions of spatial organization and translates them into the larger scale of the development. The result is a highly flexible and adaptable plan which will be further developed in the coming years.

The heart of the scheme is formed by a large scale urban park acting as a bridge building with commercial functions in an east west direction below a large landscaped roof. It bridges a tunnel which will connect to a an important north-south axis of the urban grid of Beijing. The landscaped heart of the plan intermediates between all parts of the site and forms the central element of the scheme.