Project Site: Chengdu
Project Area: 16,000 m2
Project Type: Commercial
Design Date: 2022.11
Team Role: Full Service Design
Project Architect: Minyan Li
Team: Jingxue W, Yan W, Yuling G, Qi Z, Jiayang L, Bingxiao Y
Landscape Architect: YZSCAPE
Lighting Design: NOUMENON
Visual Identity: ItMoment
OAK Sensory Park is an renovation project that locates at the edge of Chengdu downtown district.Originally serves as a food-hub sunken retail square for the nearby residential towers, the new client that purchased the property aims to re-design this retail center to be a creative, and “One of A Kind” modern shopping experiences that combines food, entertainment and city-pop sports, such as surf skating. The design scope of this project includes re-design of the sunken retail plaza, the street level plaza, and also two of the three existing towers that sits on the site: two of the towers are retail-orientated, which the client purchased.
The architectural interventions focus on the design of the OAK Monolith and Vector Square: which is a sculptural skylight cover and a new circulation path curved out from existing retail areas that features a central skylight. In addition, sculptural forms for the circulation stairs are designed to replace the existing boring, straight stairs that used to feel out of the place. The skins of the architecture, as well as the open ceiling beneath the roof of the first floor to the sunken plaza are renewed as modern looking, white perforated metal panels, that integrates lighting design.
The landscape interventions focus on the renewal of the landscape stairs that connect the streetscape and the sunken level, as well as the systematical renew of the landscape planters and pods. Special combinations of landscape elements and surf skating equipment are also considered in the design scheme. To enhance the sensory experience of the space, a gate-like water-spraying sculpture installations are designed to mimic the entanglement of quantum.
The interior design that are integrated to this architecture-based project are to provide a special coffee shop that provides surf skating club memberships, and also themed bathrooms that evokes party sensory for the visitors at night. The coffee shop, named C10, features an interior grand stair that faces the pro-training surf skating equipment.
This project remains un built.
