within this network, the main urban space is the street, which is 10 meters wide and flanked by 3-meter wide covered walkways on both sides.Ītelier FCJZ determined that an appropriate block size would be 41.2 x 41.2 meters, comparable to downtown portland in the united states. the offices for tech companies have public or commercial facilities at street level, while some residential elements (rental apartments and hotels) are found on the top floors of the buildings. ‘to achieve urbanity in an office park may be too tall an order, but perhaps we could try to at least invite people to come out and walk around during their lunch break?,’ continues the team.įor the masterplan, the architects proposed a low-rise, high-density configuration with a mix of programming. as an office park is typically suburban and accessed mainly in private cars, the architects were realistic about their goals. When developing the ‘jiading mini-block’, atelier FCJZ began by asking the question ‘how small can a block be?’. in other words, block size has to be reduced to make city both human and clean again.’ when commissioned to design the ‘industry 4.0 demonstration base’, the architects explored ways to bring a human scale to the development. ‘it is urgent then to reconsider the size of a block before more mega blocks are realized in the on-going urbanization. ‘once a city is built based on such inhuman spatial scale, it would be very difficult to remodel it into a livable environment,’ says atelier FCJZ. in contrast to the standard blocks in european cities, this vast scale creates anti-urban environments that prioritize car transport, thus resulting in increased air pollution. approached as an urban experiment, the project reconsiders china’s typical block size, which, for new cities, is currently 500 x 500 meters. Architecture firm atelier FCJZ has designed a research and development park outside of shanghai in the satellite town of jiading.
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