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Urban Design
Urban design matters. We see urban design as the opportunity to synthesize our analysis and research on various urban issues. Building upon our expertise as analysts as well as designers, we take actions through design proposals that are based on factual evidences, sound reasoning, and innovative thoughts.
Shanghai Columbia Circle Master Plan
Shanghai, China
2016 - Present
Status: Design Development
Team: William Qian
Located along Yan’an West Road, Shanghai’s main East-West artery, Columbia Circle is a historically important site, including preserved colonial monuments and former industrial buildings. Originally the social hub for Shanghai’s American community, the once rural complex is now concealed behind a perimeter of tall modern buildings.
Zunyi Auto City
Shanghai Pudong New District, China
Site Area: 199,895 m²
Built Area: 358,099 m²
2017
Design Lead: John Rong
Commercial Street, the Sun Town
Guiyang, China
Site Area: 75,601 m²
Built Area: 528,117 m²
2017
Design Lead: John Rong
Chongqing Zhujiang Zhaojia Wharf Commercial Complex
Chonqing, China
Site Area: 105,935 m²
Built Area: 484,650 m²
2011
Design Lead: John Rong
Cite de la Securite Sociale Luxembourg-Gare
Luxembourg
2015
Design: Alain Fouraux, Helena Rong
Community Design in Sophia, Guyana: Neighborhood Upgrading for Productive Public Space
Georgetown, Guyana
2018
Design: Helena Rong, Will Wu
Design consulting delegated by Inter-American Bank (IDB)
Guyana is known as the land of many waters, and Georgetown the main city is defined by water. Colonial-era sugar plantations were built along
the fertile coastal plain and left behind a network of irrigation and drainage canals that created Georgetown’s fragmented and often inundated
urban grid. The design response sees the reserves as the focus of community of development, using infrastructure to improve resiliency to flooding and creates a public realm that could be created by transforming the reserves as places for community development and engagement.
Havana Grand Metropolitan Park Urban Renewal
Havana, Cuba
2016
Design: Helena Rong
This project re-envisions the Metropolitan Park in Havana, a 700 hectare urban forested
green located along the last 9.5 kilometers of the Almendares River. In the status quo, most of
the park has virtually become an urban hinterland, characterized by a mixture of fragments -
unoccupied interstices in between untendered green, post-industrial venues, quarries, precarious
residential settlements and zones of recreation.
The topography is manipulated to expand the
course of the river and to create braided bars
that allows for seasonal flooding.The park is inaccessible to the city due to a dramatic elevational change. The design proposes
for extensions of roads that formerly end
at the edge of the park, into the landscape as programmed bridges informed by surrounding contexts, and the earth excavated from the
river will be used to unify these bridges
through an elevated bermed park.
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