Shekou Mid-hill Apartment
Location: Shenzhen Time:2005-2007
Size:21540sqm
Client:China Merchants Real Estate Co.,Ltd.
Located at the base of a hillside in Shekou, Shenzhen, the total area of the site is roughly 13,200 square meters, with 25,100 square meters of building area programmed as residential apartments and a hotel. The project returns to fundamental ideas in Chinese living as expressed by the saying “hills outside hills, and gardens inside gardens,” an idea referring to a continuous and occasionally repeating rhythm of space and form found in many traditional villages and mountainous landscapes. The relationship between nature …

Location: Guangdong Time: 2005-2008
Size: 12,000 sqm
Client: Shenzhen Vanke Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Tulou is a dwelling type unique to the Hakka people. It is a communal residence between the city and the countryside, integrating living, storage, shopping, spiritual, and public entertainment into one single building entity.
Traditional units in tulou are evenly laid out along its perimeter, like modern slab-style dormitory buildings, but with greater opportunities for social interaction. Although this type is very much suitable for low-income housing, simply copying the form and style of the tulou would not be a …

Dafen village lies in Buji Township of the Longgang District in Shenzhen. The town is best known for its oil painting replica workships and manufactures; yearly exports to places around Asia, Europe and the Americas bring billions of RMB to the area.
Our concept focuses on reinterpreting these urban and cultural implications of Dafen Village, which have long been considered as a strange mix of popular art, vulgar taste and commercialism. A typical art museum would be considered out of place in the context of Dafen’s peculiar urban culture. The question …

Urbanus is under the leadership of partners Liu Xiaodu,Meng Yan and Wang Hui,Urbanus is a think tank providing strategies for urbnism and artchitecture in the new millennium.The name of”URBANUS”derives from the Latin word of”urban”,and strongly reflects the office’s design approach:reading architectural program from the viewpoint of the urban environment in general,and the ever changing urban situations in specific.
Urbanus is committed to the Modernist belief that architecture is a pivotal force for a better life,and hence architects should push the boundary of their traditional role and be a progressive force in …