Like a river where you could not discern if a stone is there because the water shaped that way or the flow is moving in a determinate path because it is adapting to the stone's geometry. People flow and the designed geometry will have this similar mutual relationship. 

Huafa Square Planning

TYPE Offices, Retail, Residential, Mixed-use
STATUS Competition
LOCATION Zuhai, China
YEAR 2016
CLIENT Private

DESIGN TEAM Vittoria Bellassai, Eva Castro, Ulla Hell, Holger Kehne, Giulia Mariotti, Giovanni Murgia, Pietro Scarpa, Chuan Wang

Surrounded by residences, the commercial podium will be the main attractor for the population needs.
Commercial Podium is chronologically the first element encountered by the user. The people attracted by this series of monolithic volumes would start moving towards them. They would gradually have the feeling of becoming part of them. This is happening because the flow of people is the element that shaped this geometry and produced the cuts.

The elegance of the towers takes inspiration from the natural world. A plant that gently climbs up by twisting and wrapping around an existing element. In the same way, a skin system of lamellas has been developed: by twisting around the towers, it embraces them in a gentle movement enhancing the geometry and the verticality.
The tallest tower forms the central element of the complex. It follows the concept of a mineral growing up from its own sediment layer: like a stone transforming into a diamond.