Qianhai Floating City
QIANHAI FLOATING CITY
People's Architecture Office
ARCHITECTS
People's Architecture Office
PROJECT TEAM
He Wang, Pengfei Gao, Zhenghua Li, Jiaqi Xu
PRINCIPAL
Zhe He, James Shen, Feng Zang
CO DESIGNER AND COORDINATOR
Dongxiying Studio CCDI
THE CLIENT
2020 Qianhai Future Urbanism/Architecture Exhibition
PHOTOGRAPHS
Chao Zhang
YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Shenzhen, China
CATEGORY
Public Space, Installation
The Qianhai Floating City activates a barren site with the use of an open spatial framework.
Conceived and realized during the Covid-19 pandemic, a time of heightened uncertainty, the project is an expression of how urban space can quickly adapt to changing needs.
The project is a flexible framework comprised of rented scaffolding. This structural system can be easily constructed, altered, and disassembled without waste.
Qianhai Floating City served as the "Instant City" section of the 2020 Qianhai Future Urbanism/Architecture Exhibition.
This show explored new models for city planning based on public participation and bottom-up practices.
Such approaches are in contrast to the top-down urban planning that is the convention in Shenzhen, where Qianhai is located.
The design of the Qianhai Floating City was a collective effort and the result of discussions between exhibition participants.
The structure hosted a range of shifting programs, including movie screenings, lectures, workshops, and other public events.
Visitors could traverse the Floating City’s colorful pathways to explore various embedded artwork.
And guests were offered to encompass views of the city as they inhabited the three-dimensional grid.
