LINKED HYBRID

The ground level offers a number of open passages for all people (residents and visitors) to walk through. These passages ensure a micro-
Beijing, China, 2007 urbanisms of small scale. Shops activate the urban space surrounding the large reflecting pond. On the intermediate level of the lower buildings,
Architect: Steven HollArchitects Client: Modern public roofs gardens offer tranquil green spaces, and at the top of the eight residential towers private roof gardens are connected to the
Investment Group. Beijing penthouses. All public functions on the ground level, - including a restaurant, hotel, Montessori school, kindergarten, and cinema - have
Area: 220000 M2 connections with the green spaces surrounding and penetrating the project. The elevator displaces like a "jump cut" to another series of passages
Building Footprint: 15.500 sqm Gros Floor Area: on a higher levels. From the 12th to the 18th floor a multi-functional series of skybridges with a swimming pool, a fitness room, a café, a gallery,
221.000 sq m auditorium and a mini salon connects the eight residential towers and the hotel tower, and offers spectacular views over the unfolding city.
Height: 68 m Programmatically this loop aspires to be semi-lattice-like rather than simplistically linear. We hope the public sky-loop and the base-loop will
Lifts: 34 constantly generate random relationships. They will function as social condensers resulting in a special experience of city life to both residents
and visitors.
Programs: 750 apartments, public green space, commercial zones, To prevent the city within a cry to become an isolated island, Arall moduces the termahan poroty He connects his ideal city with it's contest by
hotel, cinemas, kindergarten, attracting people to the center of linked hybrid. Urban space is enclosed in the heart of the project. On street level podestrians are able to
Montessori school, underground parking move in and out the project. These two themes, city within a city and 'urban porosty are also the basis for Hell's second big housing project in
China, the sliced urban porosity block
OBJECTIVE
To understand programmatic planning of urban space at community
level or
mixed-use habitat at international level

SITE& SURROUNDING
In China, Linked Hybrid is located Beijing. The site is surrounded by
many high rise colonies of same developer.
It is also adjacent to the old city. It has Good connectivity the cities
express way. Hence can attract a many visitors in their city within a
city

The 220,000 square meter pedestrian-oriented Linked Hybrid

complex, sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing, aims to
counter the current urban developments in China by creating a new apartment floor plan
twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the
public from every side. Filmic urban public space; around, over and
through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages
through the project, make the Linked Hybrid an "open city within a
city". The project promotes interactive relations and encourages
encounters in the public spaces that vary from commercial,
residential, and educational to recreational. The entire complex is a
three-dimensional urban space in which buildings on the ground,
under the ground and over the ground are fused together.

elevation elevation Section Section

CONCEPT
Three differant public
entrances connect the
skyrng with the puble
space on ground floor.
These entrances (coloured
red in the floor plan
above) each offer a
different variety of pro-
gram One area for health
SPACE and sport center, one
area for recreational
program opened through
the day and one area for
restaurants opened
during night. The
entrance to the restaurant
is located next to the
access to the cinema
within the heart of the
project. Ground floor plan Typical floor Programmatic floor plan

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