HANG OUT

Hang Out
Pingjiaqiao lu | Shanghai | China

Hang Out is a creative public space intervention designed for one of the main plazas of a new mixed-use complex located in the New Bund, the emerging international business center in Pudong (Shanghai), with the aim of fostering entertainment & social interactions among new visitors, appealing to kids, youngsters & adults alike. The big hexagonal structure is divided in 6 smaller equilateral triangles. Each of the 6 triangles offers a different hanging function for the public space.

Hang Out Movie 1

Inspired by the triangulation of crystals’ structures, the project is shaped as a huge hexagonal structure from which different fun features are hanging down, creating a suspended public space. This is a particular design approach that has been researched and tested for a while in our office, and has been finally implemented in an outdoor public space.

A hanging public space in which all the functions are provided from above, experimenting with the feeling of gravity added to daily public features. Each of the 6 equilateral triangles is equipped with a different hanging function designed to encourage and foster social interactions among users.

The functions are hanging ball-swings, hammock nets, a hanging picnic, a pipe forest and a hanging lounge. The hexagon arises from the graphics on the floor, combining two of the typical typologies researched in the office: Painted Scapes & Grounded Objects.

It is intentionally designed that way in order to provide a more immersive experience, which starts from its surroundings when approaching the object. The Painted Scape on the floor makes it also more eye-catching not only to passersby, but to residents and workers that from the surrounding towers can have a top visual of the graphics.
The resulting installation is a very stimulating & instagrammable space for having fun, interacting with others, resting, playing and whiling away for some time in an open area.

CREDITS:

Project Name: Hang Out
Design: 100architects (Shanghai)
Design Team: Marcial Jesús, Javier González, Lara Broglio, Mónica Páez, Gong Xun,
Yevheniia Likhachova, Marie Anseaume, Cosima Jiang.
Client: client -ShangHai Renyao Real Estate Co.&ShangHai Renlu Real Estate Co.
Area: 750 m2
Completion: September 2019
Location: Number 36 ,Pingjiaqiaolu ,Pudong new district.Shanghai, China
Photography: Amey Kandalgaonkar

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