Development advancing rapidly at Chongqing Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone in China
Construction is progressing at pace at Liangjiang Innovation Zone, a new, 680-hectare urban district in the Chinese city of Chongqing, masterplanned by Chapman Taylor.
Chapman Taylor won a major international design competition to create the urban innovation zone at Liangjiang; the district was chosen by the Chinese government as a developmental ‘new area’ for Chongqing, which has a population of over 30 million people and is one of China’s four centrally governed municipalities.
Our masterplan concept is based on the integration of the beautiful natural environment with new technology facilities and creates a connected series of five university campuses surrounded by R&D clusters. The organic form of the campuses follows the undulating contours of the existing site, producing a dynamic combination of urban spaces.
The valley formed by the hills to the east and west perimeter of the site is to become a lake. At the northern end will be a national laboratory and the ‘Centre of Ideas’, a place which is the collaborative heart of the masterplan. The south of the lake is surrounded by beautiful landscape interspersed with social, sports and cultural villages, which are a contemporary interpretation of the traditional villages of the region.
Chapman Taylor separately won a design competition for a 3,000m² Exhibition Centre, which forms part of the first phase of development. The four-level building, which sits at the top of a mountain, contains an exhibition hall, a family workshop, office space, a reading/study/social area, a digital media space, a meeting room and a flexible space for temporary exhibitions, as well as viewing platforms and a spacious café deck.
The overall masterplan is a fully transit-orientated development and provides railway, metro, BRT, electric bus and water taxi connections throughout the site. Sustainability is embedded in the project, which is planned to be self-sufficient in energy needs – using solar, biomass and hydroelectric power sources to help save over 450,000 tons of CO² per annum.
Chapman Taylor separately won a design competition for a 3,000m² Exhibition Centre, which forms part of the first phase of development. The four-level building, which sits at the top of a mountain, contains an exhibition hall, a family workshop, office space, a reading/study/social area, a digital media space, a meeting room and a flexible space for temporary exhibitions, as well as viewing platforms and a spacious café deck.
The overall masterplan is a fully transit-orientated development and provides railway, metro, BRT, electric bus and water taxi connections throughout the site. Sustainability is embedded in the project, which is planned to be self-sufficient in energy needs – using solar, biomass and hydroelectric power sources to help save over 450,000 tons of CO² per annum.