Super City Portal in Shenzheng North Station

Shenzheng, China

Masterplan

Architects: IAPA PTY. LTD.

Location: Shenzheng, China
Year: 2017
Team: Paul Peng彭勃, 杜明芳, 刘约君, 刘彦姝, 叶嘉威, 敖卓毅, 张星, 曾祝希, 聂聪, Jeremy, Nicolas, Rosa

When we started to think about how to create a new world-class landmark city, a 600-year-old Chinese landscape painting became the original source of inspiration. The landscape painting depicts high mountains, dramatic rock peaks and concisely portrays the spirit of Chinese traditional culture. Combined with modern design concepts, we used the spirit of the Chinese landscape painting as the principle behind our design of space and architectural form.

From the concept of “mountain fortification” the design starts from the existing urban design, whilst considering building functionality, layout, height control, and introducing vertical stacking, mixed layouts, sky gardens, and two-story corridors. By carefully integrating building forms, a group of ultra high-rise buildings with a deliberate and powerful shape is finally produced