JINSHAN MARINA - SHANGAI
Project’s area is part of Jinshan New Town and develops along a 5.8 km’s long shoreline.
The site is characterized by the presence of a beach area protected by an artificial basin, a railway station connecting to Shanghai city center and by the most ancient fi sherman village still active in Shanghai region.
In surrounding areas there are big industrial sites.
These pre-existing shape the project theme: a new urban identity creation respecting the original site’s characters. The project fi nds and links different areas each defi ned by its own features.
The new shoreline has been drawn according with Italian style: natural forces shape the morphology and city forces try to conquer and organize the space defi ning rational and safety places.
The meeting-clash between natural and urbanity has been reread in a positive key, drawing a new microcosm, vivid and enriched by urban oportunities inspired by Italian landscapes...