Ningbo Industrial Design Center

Ningbo

2007
7.8 ha
160,000 sqm

Ningbo Industrial Design Centre is an integrated, holistic and creative urban project. The Centre has an excellent location in the waterfront area of Ningbo. Our conceptual design is mainly based on two considerations.

In the information age, production, consumption and trade acting at a global scale bring changes to the functions of the urban centre, moving it towards the productive services industry. Due to the excellent quality of life, information infrastructure and public services, the urban centre attracts professionals and agencies with knowledge, skills and new technologies. The urban centre thus becomes the centre of knowledge and creation, serving the region.

Making use of the site’s open public spaces, Subsidence Square and Water Plaza, we aim to organize architecture and landscape in a way that forms an interface space for buildings and users, integrating the riverside landscape with the cultural landscape. The building is thought of as a flexible, open and sustainable new Design Centre for world-wide creative companies. The waterfront is designed as a green belt public space, serving as a connector between the natural landscape and the new urban design. The program is structured to provide all the facilities that such a Design Centre requires to maximise creativity, innovation and exchange of ideas.