Yangtze River Delta Roadshow Center
The project renovates the former Shanghai 7th Silk Factory, where silk was printed, and the plantation beside it.
- Type
- Competition won
- Status
- Delivered
- Completed
- 2019
- Client
- Shanghai Construction Group Jinshan Development Co., Ltd
- Program
- Retail, Offices, Convention Center
- Built-up area
- 15,400 m²
- Certification
- LEED-NC v4 Platinum (Fengxi Conference Hall, 2019; White Buffalo Hall, 2020), LEED Gold (2018)
- Awards
- RICS Regeneration Project of the Year 2020, WAF China Excellent Design Award 2020, AFEX 2020, CREDAWARD Silver 2019–2020
- Architect
- AND Studio
About
The site lies south-west of Fengjing town in Shanghai, with river channels on three sides.
Across its 118 acres, a sequence of different kinds of public space keeps the district in use. The design works with industrial forms and materials, brick and expanded metal among them, to make a centre for technology and industry built around maker culture.
A multi-purpose theatre opens the arts and humanities to the public and brings the different cultures and industries on the site together.
Sustainability
The project keeps the brick buildings, chimneys and water towers of a former silk-printing factory and gives them new uses, saving the carbon already spent on their structure. The landscape collects and reuses rainwater and cleans the river channels around the site, and photovoltaic panels supply part of its energy. Two of its halls are certified LEED Platinum.