Anderson Anderson, China

Anderson

Design Concept: "Wuhan Blue Prototype"

A highlight of the concept is its integration with the local neighbourhood.  The building and site planning will be coordinated with the existing planned facilities with a great lawn leading up from the community entrance toward a community gym and shopping centre. The Blue Sky Prototype itself is planned as an open-air network of pedestrian streets and public gardens at ground level winding up to vertical floor plates. The front doors of each unit will open to wide open-air streets and the sky.

The basic element of this simple structural design is a prefabricated moment frame box assembly containing all of the complicated structural connections and all of the plumbing, mechanical systems, architectural interior-exposed steel and casework. The buildings' dramatic exterior is testament to the creative potential of steel as a structural material.

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