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“Cloud Citizen” Awarded Joint Top Honors in Shenzhen Bay Super City Competition

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Cloud Citizen, a proposal for a new high-rise typology by Urban Future Organization and CR-Design, in collaboration with a team of experts at Chalmers Technical University, has been jointly awarded the highest prize in the Shenzhen Bay Super City Masterplan Competition. Their futuristic design features a singular mega building complex that aims to create a hyper dense urban center that gives back to the environment.

- The competition brief required a new 170-hectare financial district for the city, including three high-rise structures, cultural buildings, and a large green space to connect the district to the surrounding city. The hope for the masterplan is to create a new iconic financial district for Shenzhen, reminiscent of places such as La Défense in Paris or Canary Wharf in London. Cloud Citizen, however, proposes a radically different typology for this new urban center.

- The proposed 680 meter tall mega structure offers an alternative to the singular and unconnected high-rises found in most metropolitan areas. The plan also includes features to make the design more ecologically viable. Thus, Cloud Citizen functions as a “continuous metropolis” with public spaces suspended in the air and integrated into the structure itself. --- The enormous scale of the structure is broken down into smaller units to create a variety of spaces to serve public, commercial, and cultural programs. Each public space connects to a large park that acts as a green network for the city and aims to promote healthy and more sustainable lifestyles.

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