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Haishang Plaza: Redefining Mixed-Use Architecture

Located in an old residential district of Zhengzhou city, Haishang Plaza is intended to be a premier shopping and entertainment destination of this area. The design incorporates a mixed-use program including SOHO, LOFT towers, an indoor shopping mall, and a large outdoor lifestyle plaza, committed to bringing vitality to the community and creating a new business model.

The terraced massing design of Haishang Plaza focuses on drawing pedestrians into its spaces by stepping back its corners and breaking down the urban fabric to human scale. This gesture creates prominent entrances into the plaza, while increasing street frontage visibility of the main shopping mall and the lifestyle retail. The addition of residential towers allows the client the ability to presell units to finance the construction of the mixed-use project.

Neighboring the site are 5 programmatic sources that influenced the precedence for the client’s desired program. This Mixed Use project looks to condense this urban fabric into a new architectural typology of live/work/shop destination. The design also includes family-oriented entertainment complexes that are geared toward all age groups. Combined with customized and branded retail and restaurants, this venue serves as a destination for families in the future.

This concept was selected by the client for several reasons. Primarily, this model was selected because it offers a more suitable business model for the client’s needs. In this option, there are more sellable spaces, with three residential towers: West SOHO, North LOFT, and East LOFT. By adding permanent residential program to the mixed-use development, the client is able to presell the residential units before breaking ground.

Located in an old residential district of Zhengzhou city, Haishang Plaza is intended to be a premier shopping and entertainment destination of this area. The design incorporates a mixed-use program including SOHO, LOFT towers, an indoor shopping mall, and a large outdoor lifestyle plaza, is committed to bringing vitality to the community and creating a new business model.

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