We develop strategies and masterplans for cultural, tourism and heritage projects. We help define the client’s vision for the project and based on rigorous research. We then create robust feasibility studies, Phased implementation plan that provide answers to their strategic requirements.
Working closely with the client team and subject experts, we develop strategic timelines and capital budgets for projects and study various functional settings and operation modes. To response to client’s requirements, we advise on suitable modes of governance, ownership and management structures and address how cultural, tourism and heritage projects can raise, receive and invest funds.
Finally, we translate the project vision into the aims of urban design, architectural design and organise the next plan workflow.
The characteristic small-town is an innovation and entrepreneurship development platform with clear industrial orientation, cultural connotation, tourism industry and certain community functions. It is relatively independent from the urban and township centre, and usually，it is located in the urban-rural fringe. The planning area is generally controlled in 3 KM2, and the construction area is generally controlled in 1 KM2
Characteristic small-town has different definition with characteristic town:
Characteristic small-town is an innovative and entrepreneurial platform different from administrative town and traditional industrial park，the scale generally covers several square kilometres. It is an ecological space integrating characteristic industry with production and life.
Comparably, the characteristic town is a distinctive administrative town which covers a few square kilometres land and certain population economy scale, as well as characteristic industry.
The pastoral complex is a comprehensive development model integrating modern agriculture, leisure tourism and rural communities, which can meet the new trend of interpenetration and integration of the three industries (primary industry, secondary industry, tertiary industry) .
The pastoral complex is a new attempt to drive the development of new industries according to the reform goal of rural supply-side structure under the context of urban-rural integration.
The pastoral complex is a kind of sustainable model to realize Chinese rural modernization, new-type urbanization and all-round social and economic development through the reform of rural property rights system. The fundamental objective is to solve the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers.
Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns and villages and planning for the provision of municipal services to residents and visitors. In contrast to architecture, which focuses on the design of individual buildings, urban design deals with the larger scale of groups of buildings, streets and public spaces, whole neighbourhoods and districts, and entire cities, with the goal of making urban areas functional, attractive, and sustainable.
Urban design is an inter-disciplinary field that utilizes elements of many built environment professions, including landscape architecture, urban planning, architecture, civil engineering and municipal engineering. It is common for professionals in all these disciplines to practice urban design. In more recent times different sub-subfields of urban design have emerged such as strategic urban design, landscape urbanism, water-sensitive urban design, and sustainable urbanism.
Urban design demands an understanding of a wide range of subjects from physical geography to social science, and an appreciation for disciplines, such as real estate development, urban economics, political economy and social theory.
Urban design is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the creation of places with distinct beauty and identity. Urban design draws these rich and complex information together to create a vision for an area and then deploying the resources and technical demand to bring the vision to life.
With more than 20 years of international experience and over hundreds of projects spanning the globe from North America to Europe and Asia, we believe that great design comes from a deep understanding of the social and cultural context in which we are working, as well as of the clients’ needs and aspirations.
We research and analyse project data such as site, program, urban constraints, context, users’ patterns, etc. to map out a clear strategy of all issues that shape a project.
Through the multitudes of architectural typologies, we excel in designing mixed use, commercial-retail, high rise towers, residential, hospitality-resort, culture, and educational facilities. We strive for highly informed, specific and creative excellence in every single project, no matter how small or big.
Our unique structure allows us to provide world-class global architectural design expertise combined with local practice know-how to deliver design excellence wherever the project may be located.
