VANKE TIMES at Wangjing

24800m²

Beijing

2017-2020

A sense of enclosure and being embraced by the buildings inspired us of a concept – “STAGE”, where activities/programs take places.The design approach is to create multiple platforms like such stage in the plaza for people to exhange views, to contemplate, to perform/observe activities and to celebrate life.The concept has developed into programs, circulations, scale and materiality to work with the physical environment to deliver brand new exprience in an outdoor public realm.The plaza offers multiple seating options to its diverse users. It also provides a generous amount of shade from trees and the opportunity to interact with the textures of the ornamental grass and other groundcovers at a human scale.