Urban Border
Architecture design for the transformation of an old glass factory
- Category
- Architecture
- Year
- 2013
- Location
- Shenzhen [CN]
- Size
- 2.000m2
- Program
- Entrance and main exhibition hall
- Client
- China Merchants, SHHK Biennale
Basic City was a part of an international matchmaking team, that made the design for the transformation of the Guandong Float Glass Factory into a new creative hub for the city of Shenzen. Shared principles for the approach to the site were: co-creation, close-reading and a step by step development of the site. First step in the process was adjusting the current site for the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture.
Our specific task was to transform the entrance and the main factory hall into representative exhibition space, a new destination at the city scale.