Located on the Yangzi River to the north-east of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province, the proposal for the Nanjing ecological and technological island, by AAUPC Agence Patrick Chavannes + G.C.A. Design Consulting, consists of a development strategy for the Yangzi delta and Jiangsu province. The aim is to define a new image for the city of Nanjing, transforming it into an open economy, developing eco-technological industries and modern services, innovating with existing mechanisms and putting in place the local development strategy of ‘crossing the Yangzi River’. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The project is oriented towards the city in order to preserve a maximum of agriculture and green space on the site. This enables us to design a project in which the urbanization is ‘held’ by the landscape. Hence, the urban volumes are positioned on the edges of the island in a way which permits a green swathe to cross it from north to south. The project is thus based on the concept of ‘internal islands’, which open onto the ‘river of fields’, which preserves a view of the new districts to the west of the river from the edges of the existing town.
