前海水城 - Qianhai Water City (trailer)

This short trailer is cut from a 10 minute presentation video I created for James Corner Field Operations. 'Qianhai Water City' was awarded First Prize in the International Competition for the Planning of the Qianhai Region of Shenzhen, beating out 10 other invited design teams including OMA/Rem Koolhaas, BLAU Architecture and Urbanism, Bjarke Ingles Group, SWA, and Nikken Sekke among others.

The project site includes 4,500 acres of reclaimed land surrounding Qianhai Harbor on the western coast of Shenzhen. Upon implementation, Qianhai is envisioned to be the financial, logistics and service hub of Shenzhen, and a major new urban center -- a "Manhattan" -- in the Pearl River Delta mega-region, linking Hong Kong to Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The JCFO scheme envisions a new "Water City" for 1.5 million people. The design is dense, compact, mixed, sustainable and centered around the area's most important resource -- water.

For more information: http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/james_corner_field_operations_wins_u...

Music by Ronald Jenkees: http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• James
• Corner
• Field
• Operations
• Richie
• Gelles
• sellegr
• JCFO
• Pearl
• River
• Delta
• Shenzhen
• China
• Qianhai
• Water
• City
• 前海水城
• 深圳
• 中国

[gangzw]

Btw, any chance to see the full 10 min presentation?

[sellegr]

@gangzw Thanks for the comments. The energy and speed of development in Shenzhen is palpable and infectious. The established cities of the west feel ponderous and without direction in comparison.  Unfortunately, not all of the parties involved in the project want the full version of the video shown online at this time, but it may be shown in live presentations or lectures in the future.

[modestgirl1]

Well done. Especially love the diagrams and renderings. It is important to see how projects have a much bigger meaning when put into context and understood in relation to cultural, transportation, and water networks. It is clear how this project impacts the region, and more importantly how it relates to other sites.

[qbobdole]

what song is this, anyone know?

[hallo2006]

the motion graphics are great for transporting the architectual intention-

is it all done in after effects?

[gangzw]

This is damn impressive! Looking at how China is developing its urban areas it makes me wonder where it will be in another 20-30 years and how cities like London, Paris or New York will look compared to Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing which in many ways are already far ahead (or will be in the next couple of years).