Background
Subject to the issue of Great City projecting the situation of China’s mega cities, the block for this competition is given the motif of “Smart Vertical Community,” which seeks creative and smart ideas and solutions to high-rise buildings in terms of efficiency, flexibility, and diversity by echoing values of communication, public service, knowledge exchange, networks, and management.
Competition Project
The competition project is located at Jiangbei New District, Nanjing, Zhejiang Province, China, the International Healthy City Talent Apartment, which covers 22,770 square meters at a height of 100 meters, and is expected to accommodate 450 people. The competition area ranges from the ground to the height of 35.1 meters. The first 15.3 meters is considered as vertical public community, and the conceptual experiment unit for future residence starts from 15.3 meters to 35.1 meters. Themed with “Smart Tree,” it focuses on the whole system and integrated design, unit module integration, and research and development of key technologies and scientific innovation of “Vertical Intelligent Community”.
