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Collective Courtyards, Jiaxing
Residential, (875 units)
Commercial and Office
Total 100,000sqm
Schematic Design: Spring 2017

Traditionally, housing in China is strongly rooted in the notion of the collective. From the Beijing hutong, to the Fujian Tulou and Shanghai Lilong, collective space to meet and interact is an intrinsic part of residential design. This element has been strongly overlooked in contemporary Xiaoqu developments – where collective spaces is the remaining landscape between high-rises.

Can we find new ways for contemporary living in China, that foster collective experience as a threshold between the scale of the city and of the individual unit?

Collective courtyards connects collective spaces to contemporary lifestyles – catering to health, culture, the young family or nightlife…

Team:
Daan Roggeveen, Robert Chen with
Pedro Martins, Lina Peng, Andrea Mendoza, Mengyao Han, Emilio Wang, Jean-Loup Tscheulin, Mari Moldre

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