River Heights Residences, Taiyuan by PAO

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三千渡住宅小区位于太原北郊一片荒芜的城市环境中，约1万人会居住在这个60万平米的小区里。它的规模接近纽约洛克菲勒中心，却空降在这偏远的郊区。小区由数个成组的“迷你塔楼”组合而成，为尚未开发的城市郊区带来都市化的生活环境。通过集群化的“迷你塔楼”形象，构成连续统一的天际线，呈现出大都市的景象。

In a context of emptiness, 10,000 people are housed in 600,000sqm of residential development. The River Heights Residences, approaching the size of New York City’s Rockefeller Center, are located in an undeveloped suburban plot on the outskirts of Taiyuan, China. The project is an assemblage of mini-towers that promotes urban living and achieves a ‘metropolitan’ presence in a tabula rasa environment. By privileging collective form over the individual tower, the River Heights Residences express a unified and articulated skyline of mini-towers.

▼ 三千渡住宅小区，River Heights Residences

这一独特的集群化形式使得小区在提供良好居住舒适度的同时，获得比周边小区更高的密度。一个建筑塔楼由6个“迷你塔楼”组成，它们前后、高低错落，顶部形成屋顶花园。每个迷你塔的错动位置都经过精心调整，确保每个户型获得最优的通风、采光与视野，而无需减少容积率。最终，“迷你塔楼”群体自组织形成了像都市天际线一般的整体轮廓。

This unique form facilitates higher living standards and a higher density than neighboring projects. A bundle of mini-towers is in fact one building that has been sliced into portions, shifted in both plan and elevation, and then topped with roof gardens. The amount of each mini-tower’s offset is finely tuned to achieve maximum cross ventilation and natural light without reducing density. The resulting silhouette of River Heights materializes like the self-organizing form of a city’s skyline.

▼像都市天际线一般的整体轮廓，form of a city’s skyline

在中国，住宅建筑完工面积约占所有建筑物完工面积的70%，然而人们依旧买不起新开发的住宅。看似高端的三千渡社区售价却低于太原房产整体均价。这得益于在设计中去除了一切不必要的装饰；通过调整“迷你塔楼”的高度与位置获得较高的容积率；开发更小面积的户型，把更多功能放进更小的空间。

Residential developments comprise of 70% percent of all new building construction in China, but new apartments still remain unaffordable for most individuals. While the River Heights Residences resemble high-end developments, apartments at the sold-out complex are priced below the average cost of housing in Taiyuan. Affordability is due in part to density and the elimination of decorative frills. Importantly, small 3-4 bedroom apartments that pack as much function into as small an area possible comprise the bulk of units at River Heights.

▼ 立面细节，Facade Details

中国的住宅常以设计质量差著称，普遍利用建筑风格或无谓的装饰来体现价值感，却忽略了简洁的设计所能带来的真正价值。通过立面的重复与严格控制，三千渡的建筑强调了整体的一致性，而非差异性。外立面的阳台、外窗、空调外挂机位等被严格控制在一个网格系统内，统一为整体，大量的重复进一步放大了这种戏剧化的效果。整体的形式在地面高度上看时尤为明显，建筑物后退为背景，绿化景观、下沉广场以及人们的活动被突显出来。三千渡项目表明，高密度的城市生活在新的郊区发展中是适用，甚至应该被推广的。

Residential towers are notorious for their poor design quality. In China, such developments often use architectural tropes or unnecessary adornments to represent value instead of considering the value of simplified design. Through repetition and highly controlled façades, River Heights emphasizes sameness rather than the imitation of difference. Ornament at the residences is restricted to a relentless grid that organizes glazing, balconies and A/C units into a unified whole, further exaggerating the play on scale. The appearance of unity is most effective on ground level where buildings recede to the background, highlighting the surrounding open green spaces and sunken plazas. The River Heights Residences show that dense urban living is practical and even desirable as a new suburban development.

▼分析图，Diagram

▼鸟瞰图，Bird’s Eye View

▼总平面，Master Plan

▼平面图，Floor Plan

▼立面图，Elevation

客户 : 千渡地产
地点: 山西太原
面积: 600,000平米
完成时间：2016
设计主持：何哲，James Shen（沈海恩），臧峰
项目建筑师：张明慧
项目团队：刘秀娟、张燕、李佩瑶、梁劭肄、刘倩倩、鲁静、陈轶璇、王伟、任炜、杨冰、林天泉、张朕、蔡文欣
摄影：众建筑

Client: Heights Properties Co., Ltd.
Location: Taiyuan, China
Area: 600,000sqm
Completion: 2016
Principals: He Zhe, James Shen, Zang Feng
Project Architect: Zhang Minghui
Project Team: Liu Xiujuan, Zhang Yan , Li Peiyao, Liang Shaoyi, Liu Qianqian , Lu Jing, Chen Yixuan, Wang Wei, Ren Wei, Yang Bing, Lin Tianquan, Zhang Zhen, Cai Wenxin
Photographer: People’s Architecture Office

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