Heart Beating

Shanghai Wuzhou International Plaza by SDA Synthesis Design

The contemporary urban planning develops multiple small points of attraction, wich are full of life: it can be an impressive skyscraper (with inner life) or a plaza like this project. They beat all the time, they rule the city, it´s a never ending rythm.

´´A : the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole´´ can be a description for a city. In this case, is one of the principles of SDA Synthesis Design, an international architectural office, who is responsible for the 1^st prize for Shanghai Wuzhou International Plaza competition.

The fragmentation of elements were born from the tension between Yin&Yang, a chinese philosophy wich believes there´s two opposite energies, with inner lights, darkness and lightness, wich guide us. When one of this energy rich it´s limits, inside it manifest the opposite.

There´s a crush between these two energies, the space is indefined, it can be a mixture of tones, with special realities, a space for all emotions: opposite, similarities. Life develops through and after this tension.

The highers buildings (office building, hotel) crushed and the smithereens offer many opportunities for new connections, different views, nice walkings; a ´´plaza´´ with full of streets and green elements. The fragmented buildings are a place that are not necessarly to darkness or lightness, they are other reality, with a bright skin. Each volume is organized as a collection of two 30 story mid-rise towers connected by a four story retail podium, the buildings have movements, seems they are dancing. They became unique, as it´s form, as it´s vibrations.

This is a contemporary place, the buildings are sculptures, the forms are irregular. This project is right inside the third ring of the urban metropolis, today the urban planning offers a lot of so called ´centres´ hearts beatings. People moves in the city in all directions,

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