mini-city of culture:
BAU590 Nanjing Pukou Haiqiao Community Service Center

City of Culture
Like a miniature city this project promises something for everyone.
Like a city, it is public and permeable and open to everyone.
Like a city, it is in flux, constantly reinventing itself.
Like a city, it has active street edges with shop fronts, food and beverage, and city services.
Like a city it is practical, efficient, flexible and legible.
City of culture is an urban design; its architecture will be resolved in detail after the brief is developed, finalized and confirmed.

Galleria
The City of Culture has a sensational galleria, a spine linking all of its parts together.
The galleria provides shelter from rain and filters the sunshine in summer.
The galleria will be a place of events such as community markets of goods, food, cultural festivals and more.
The galleria is a grand urban artifact, a memorable landmark experience, a place worth visiting the district to see.

Lanes
The lanes are intimate human scaled places.
More like lineal plazas because they are wide and free of traffic.
Life thrives in lineal plazas, particularly where cafes, restaurants and bars can spill out into them.
The lanes are safe because only service vehicles use them.

A Place for Each Program
Commercial functions link to the metro and face the city intersection.
Health and retirement functions have a quiet location facing the garden park.
City Market fronts the western street edge.
City Sports is adjacent and connected to the sports park.
City Library + Culture Centre is adjacent and open to the events park.
Police are located in the south-west, along the western street edge.
Administration and a hotel float high above it all, yet have street addresses.

Sustainable City
City of Culture utilizes state of the art energy efficiency and environmentally sustainable thinking.
This miniature city has its own Combined Cooling, Heating and Power plant (CCHP), situated in the basement.
CCHP Power is created by burning natural gas; all excess heat is used to heat and cool the buildings. Excess heat, such as the byproduct of supermarket refrigerators, is used elsewhere on the site for cooling, heating, or specific uses such as heating the swimming pool for example.
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) include rainwater collection, rain retention ponds, and a combined grey water system for all buildings.
Healthy Interior City thinking, air replenishment and non-off gassing, is essential to this project, particularly its public buildings, and particularly the health facilities.
Public lighting on the site is powered entirely by solar PV farms on the building roofs.