Xiongan Urban Vision

Jun 12, 2019 Latest News

Within a team of consortium lead by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Habidatum was determining possible trajectories of future development of the Xiongan city for a hundred years ahead. We collected and analyzed the external factors that may determine the evolution of Xiongan area from the zone of greenfield development through various functional types.

To analyze possible structure of urban activity in the future city of Xiongan – functional modes of various city spaces – we looked at analog cities in China and globally. Using geo-tagged data from smartphone applications as a proxy for people’s mobility, we described areas of different types: central business districts, residential districts, recreational spaces, transport hubs.

The evolution of the project area for the coming century

In order to determine possible trajectories of area’s future development, the external factors are analyzed: its various possible functional types (1) regional administrative hub, connection to Chinese Capital City Beijing; (2) link to Pacific Rim Post-Industrial Economy – connection to Tianjin; (3) Tourist Mecca – connection to Mountains and inner Mongolia; (4) Regional Agricultural Market – connection to the inland agricultural areas north of the Yellow River. All four factors presumably will be influencing the stages of the city evolution throughout the 100-year period that was taken a projection time for this project.

The idea is that the proposed master plan should take into account those key factors in order to be a space of readiness for the external change. Xiongan masterplan thus will be a physical and network system that contains and/or reflects all necessary concepts, instruments and mechanisms of adjustments.

Full analysis here.

This analysis is part of a series of publications resulting from FIABCI's partnership with Habidatum.

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