Tekuma Frenchman was awarded 1st place for a new science city in Shenzhen.

We are excited to announce that “The Self Assembly City”; our masterplan proposal for Guangming Science City in Shenzhen, China’s first district dedicated to scientists and researchers, was awarded the first place competing with over 120 international companies. Finalists included AECOM, HASSELL, ISA Internationales Stadtbauatelier, NIHON SEKKE, HOK Beijing and schneider+schumacher. Last January, a jury of nine international and domestic experts gathered in Shenzhen, and our design was selected. The project was recently reviewed by local officials and the good news is finally official!

“Rather than imposing a spatial structure on the city, organic principles that leverage transportation and ecology are proposed, becoming a place where city and nature are interlaced. With this framework, the objective is to identify and design the points of interaction between urban, green, and mobility. That is where the nodes are, from which the self-assembly city organizes and grows. In total five nodes spurt the development of the district, each with distinct themes and roles. At the heart of the project is the Central Science Park, a prominent green space that knits the five nodes and their urban edges together. While most of the park is programmed with recreational and cultural amenities, layered with the most cutting-edge technologies, its center is an ecological preserve home to native species and rich biodiversity.”

We thank our consortium partners INGAME Architects (their team shown above with Kun Qian and Tengjia Liu from Tekuma Frenchman) and L&A Landscape Architecture, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which was our inspiration for the project. For more information, see the official competition release here.