FUZHOU RONG QIAO MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT

The mixed-use development, done in collaboration with the largest developer in Fuzhou, Rong Qiao, sits on the final prime location on site. The client’s brief called for an iconic and meaningful design to uphold the legacy of the Rong Qiao group. The project comprises high-end residential apartments and a lifestyle mall with some office components for the Rong Qiao headquarters office.
Key to its effective and sustainable retail strategy, the design offers an integrated duality of the conventional enclosed mall flanked by a semi-porous pedestrian street mall that is peppered with cafes and gardens. Escalators and corridors were used to bridge shops on the second floor to the first.
Moving away from the typical residential and commercial split in programmatic planning, the apartment towers are placed above the retail podium so that users can have easy access to podium roof deck facilities and to the mall below.