01. Wuhan Yangchun Lake Business District

Location: Wuhan, China

Architect: Sasaki

Area: 4450 Acres

• Smaller urban blocks promote walkability and arcades facilitate pedestrian connectivity to the central park.

• Buildings are organized to take advantage of views and to create landmarks within the district

• Urban blocks that radiate outwards from the central park prioritize pedestrian connectivity, linking the outer neighborhoods to the commercial core.

• Most of the open space are contiguous, linked by a network of pedestrian alleys, arcades, and linear parks. Diverse landscapes within the neighborhoods may include pedestrian food streets, shaded recreational spaces, rain gardens and bios-wales, urban agriculture atop podiums, and community roof terraces.

Inferences

• Different clusters of CBD’s across the area which also connecting each other through a corridor which acts as an landmark within itself and also bifurcates the congestion of traffic and easily accessible from every place.

• Instead of an central green open spaces they have adapted a more organic manner which gives balanced green spaces in all areas easily accessible and creating a natural sponge which prevents flood and ecological balance.

(Source:https://www.sasaki.com/projects/wuhan-yangchun-lake-business-district/ )