New Pujiang Centre
- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Client
- People’s Government of Pujiang Town and the Minhang District Planning and Natural Resources Bureau
- Expertise
- Urban Design
- Sustainability
- Size
- 5.25 sq km
Proposed as a world-class sponge city, the New Pujiang Centre is a district-level project which forms part of the Minhang 2035 masterplan.
Through the transformation and modernisation of the Mindong Industrial Park, the BDP led consortium with JAE, will strengthen innovative functionality in the area, create a unique public service and deliver a state-of-the-art activity centre, to provide world-leading research and landmark industry-city integration.
Focusing on civilization, development, history and nature, the competition winning design builds a new urban picture, lays out a new industrial blueprint and strives to build a new city in Mindong which supports easier accessibility, diversified cultural tourism and an unrivalled quality of living.
A network of green infrastructure components will collect and purify rainwater, prevent flooding and recycle water resources to become a self-growing and self-improving urban ecosystem. The proposed components comprise the inclusion of green roofs, tree pits, green spaces, floating planting, aeration, attenuation, bio-retention swales, permeable surfaces, rain gardens and filtration beds.
Surrounding transportation and road infrastructure network developments will crucially enhance connectivity to the new city, which will become a bustling and engaging urban community with ecology, health and wellbeing at its heart.
"The core elements of the design bring the riverfront back to life, draw a picture of diversified cultural tourism and weave in an ecological network for greater biodiversity, including a new man-made lake.”