GREEN SKYLINE

Green Skyline
Hengqin | China

With Green Skyline we turned an overbearing coastline walkway into a joyful and stimulating public space for the entire local community, turning a mere underused circulation space into an urban hotspot to stay and socialize.

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Overlooking Macau from Hengqin Island’s Waterfront, the project adds much-needed amenities and eye-catching platforms that promote outdoor lifestyle and social interaction among citizens, while creating a strong visual identity for Hengqin Island.

The intervention features a group of capsules designed with distinctive and attractive silhouettes, creating a colorful skyline visible from Macau. This unique silhouettes also function as engaging handrail with entertaining features such as telescopes, selfie spots, or different seating arrangements.

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While the outer surfaces are intentionally colorful and captivating, the inner surfaces of the capsules are crafted with warm wood finishings, offering a cozy place to spend some quality leisure time. These capsules serve diverse purposes, while some are intended for social gatherings and casual chats, others are equipped with playful installations like swings, seesaws, and slides, offering leisure and entertainment in equal doses.

On the city-facing side, an array of umbrellas with different seating configurations invites visitors to hang out, relax, and socialize under pleasant shadows.

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At night, the project is illuminated with LED strips that accentuate the skyline silhouettes, creating a sublime visual effect. The overall night ambiance is quite enchanting, fostering an immersive experience of rhythm and color under the lit-up silhouettes, and transforming the overbearing surroundings into a human-scale urban landmark.

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Credits

PROJECT NAME: GREEN SKYLINE
DESIGN: 100 Architects (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
DESIGN TEAM: Marcial Jesús, Javier González, Mónica Páez, Lara Broglio, Ponyo Zhao, Keith Gong, Cosima Jiang, Michelle Aldora, Jango Zhang & Yuntong Liu.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM: Matias Hernandez, Jenny Fan & Eva Jiang
SIZE: 651 m2
STATUS: Built
LOCATION: Hengqin, Zhuhai, China

A fun twist of Chinese traditional architecture in deep China.

The design is strongly inspired in traditional Chinese rural architecture, but with a modern twist. The project is a mixture of traditional & modern styles in a boutique hotel immersed in nature, a touristic destination in a rural setting. The entire scheme adopts certain traditional features of Chinese rural architecture into the design.