Townhouse on water Shanghai - Pujiang new town
The project consists in the planning of ten townhouses in Pujiang new town, in the suburb of Shanghai.
The urban situation and the functional program suggest to develop these townhouses as a series of individual volumes, in which each unit is developed as a sort of “vertical villa”.
Starting from a monolithic element, the five units are carved into the volume with a deep cut, modelling the units defining transparency through the depth of the house from the entrance to the terraces, shaping balconies and loggias on the upper floors. The “cut” in the volume other than defining the individuality of each house brings light to its interior on different levels.
The two buildings have at the same time a compact character as a whole, because of the monolithic aspect of the volumes, and a friendly and comfortable image of the individual houses due to the reduced scale of the single unit.
The channel in between the buildings results as a central space from which the units have access on the water side.
