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LINKED HYBRID COMPLEX

ARCHITECT: Steven Holl Architects

LOCATION: Beijing, China

YEAR: 2003-2009

STATUS: Completed

PROGRAM: 644 apartments, public green space, commercial zones, hotel, cinemateque, kindergarten, Montessori school, underground parking.

CLIENT: Modern Green Development Co., Ltd. Beijing

SIZE: 221,426 sm

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Contents

01. LIVING FACTS
02. SURVIVOR MARACAIBO
03. ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
04. SELLING LIFESTYLE
05. A FRAME OF MIND
06. LIVING IN CABRINI
07. PLACES, NOT SPACES
08. POINT CLOUDS

CASE STUDY #1. NAKAGIN CAPSULE
CASE STUDY #2. WALDEN 7
CASE STUDY #3. THE UFO HOUSES
CASE STUDY #4. THE WHALE
CASE STUDY #5. LINKED HYBRID

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LINKED HYBRID COMPLEX
CASE STUDY #5


Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the 220,000 m2 pedestrian-oriented project, sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing, aims to counter the current privatized urban developments in China by creating a new twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side.

Filmic urban public space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages through the project, make it an "open city within a city". The project promotes interactive relations and encourages encounters in the public spaces that vary from commercial, residential, and educational to recreational.

The entire complex is a three-dimensional urban space in which buildings on the ground, under the ground and over the ground are fused together.