The Blue Ribbon
LifeHub | Daning lu | Shanghai, China
 
It is an urban intervention in a commercial district of Shanghai. It is located in the LifeHub, a retail street in the heart of Shanghai
 
 

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The ribbon shape bends and turns over generating ergonomic shapes that can be used for many different group ages as well as for different activities such as climbing, seating, lounging and more.
 
 
Youtube Video | 100architects Channel
Blue Ribbon Video

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It is a public space intervention in an outdoor space just at the intersection of two pedestrian streets.
The project is a circular object that by bending and turning it creates shapes that facilitate interactions among people.
 
 

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A single ribbon that creates shapes for playing, climbing, seating and much more.  On the other hand, it encloses a space for a playground. It is one ribbon that bending and folding create spaces and positions for kids and adults alike.
 
There are also some yellow boxes as seating features for the pedestrian to rest protected from the extreme summer conditions of Shanghai.
 
 

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The Blue Ribbon is a creative public space intervention designed to foster interactions among kids and adults in a virtually enclosed space.
 
 

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Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest commercial areas in Shanghai, due to its condition of open-air retail street.
 
 

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The installation was intended to generate a meeting point for families within a safe and enclosed area. A space for fun and interaction of kids and adults.
 
 

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Therefore, the circle was selected as the universal symbolic shape of unity, inclusion, wholeness and perfection. It implies the idea of cyclic movement as a perpetual motion.
 
 

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The basic circular shape was bent creating different functional topographical profiles, granting the look of a Ribbon.
 
 

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Those bends create openings for accessing the central space, seating features, mini-amphitheaters, ramps, slopes, etc.… encouraging the gathering and interaction of people.
 
 

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The resulting enclosed area is rendered as a playground, filled with basic geometric objects as soft pillows to be colonized by kids.
 
 

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A green flooring surface serves as informational and directional canvas, displaying information at the same time as it enhances the perception of being within the circle.
 
 

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Taking advantage of the highest bends of the ribbon, yellow functional boxes were plugged-in as platforms for adults to rest and have a break, as chatting capsules with a certain degree of privacy.
 
 

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The Blue Ribbon not only creates a playful cyclical platform as a challenging path to be traveled by kids by jumping, climbing, sliding and crawling up and down.
 
 

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It also provides with different shapes to host different activities.
 
 

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During the summer period, the Blue Ribbon became the truly meeting point at Life Hub @ Daning’s open-air retail street, gathering kids and adults alike, and successfully increasing the pedestrian circulation at the pedestrian intersection.
 
 

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Youtube Video | 100architects Channel
Blue Ribbon Video

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CREDITS:
 
Project Name:Design: 100architects (Shanghai)
Design Team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Anshuman Roy
Production: Hong Yang Advertising
Client: Life Hub @ Daning, (Chongbang Group)
Location: Daning Road, Jing’An District, Shanghai, China
Area: 350 m2
Completion: June 2018
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar