The Oval Partnership Limited
香港灣仔告士打道50號馬來西亞大廈14樓
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chrislaw@ovalpartnership.com
Chris Law
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Completion: 2008
Beijing Sanlitun Taikoo Li is the realization of our new approach, billed as an Open City concept and consisting of two components: Open Urban Quarters and Open Architecture. The master plan comprises 16 buildings fused around alleys, lanes, courtyards and squares. The buildings are designed as open architecture components that can adapt and change over time. It is an approach that reinforces the benefits of diversity, inclusivity and adaptability.
Completion: 2014
Consisting of an open-air retail precinct, Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu is interlaced with walkable fine-grained streets and lanes permeating carefully proportioned low-rise structures. Set in the context of the historic Daci Temple dating back some 1,600 years, the development accommodates the temple’s six traditional courtyard structures site have been carefully preserved and adaptively reused. The culture of Chengdu with its byword ‘play fast, live slow’, was the inspiration behind the development’s innovative retail planning concept: ‘Fast Lane—Slow Lane’. Artfully blending the old with the new, Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu recaptures the vibrant spirit of city life and is a model of our public shared urban future.
Completion: 2018
Situated in the National Cultural Industry District in Qujiang, Xi’an, Qujiang Creative Circle provides 527,000 square metres of mixed-use space including office, retail, residential, entertainment, recreational and public amenities. The essence of the project can be defined as a bridge between past, present and future, nurturing a spirit of creativity, and ultimately becoming a new destination for cultural and creative industry endeavours. It also articulates the ongoing research that The Oval Partnership pursues in envisaging a prototype that speak to the new generation’s desire for an urban fabric that is pleasurable, vibrant and conducive to innovation.
Completion: 2018
Qujiang Creative Cultural Centre is a state-of-the-art multifunctional theatre that hosts a diverse palette of cultural performances, concerts, educational events and exhibitions. Inspired by the traditional Chinese ‘Lian Lang’ — a connecting structure between buildings — a modern interpretation has been composed in a spatial arrangement of 8,000 pieces of bronze metal flutes, finely honed and detailed using local craftsmanship. These sculptural flutes are suspended from the ceiling; cantilevered from the walls; and rise from the floor. In the centre of the space, a 13m long metallic draping veil provides a contrasting softness and juxtaposes the verticality of the flutes.
Completion: Ongoing
Located at the Houhai district of Nanshan in Shenzhen, Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza is poised to become a world-class culture-led mixed-use development in the Bay Area. The project comprises a dozen of land parcels dissected by major thoroughfares. The design concept is to stitch these pockets of land and surrounding urban fabric back together, bridging the hinterland with a new coastline the Bay, connecting transit and culture, landmarks and open spaces, places and people.
Completion: Ongoing
The Oval Partnership adopts a ‘scenario planning approach’ in this 460, 000 square metre creative and lifestyle destination in Shanghai that places people at the heart of the masterplan design. This new urban narrative forms an organic continuation of the city fabric. The users are the placemakers and walkability is the primary objective, with permeability, high quality public realm and pleasurable pedestrian experiences taking the lead. Civic plazas, urban parks, streets, lanes and alleys are carefully orchestrated to create a rich network of public spaces, with human scale and experience guiding the design.
Completion: 2020
1 Hotel Haitang Bay's captivating design takes cues from local geographical characteristics as well as the cultural and scenic backdrop of Hainan, while committing to the principles of sustainable travel. Local vernacular architecture and passive environmental design guided the overall approach and aesthetics of the development. This is emphasized by a series of external shading devices and green landscaping, presenting a spatial experience that is both rich in texture and mesmerizing in detail, heightened by the interplay of light and shadow. Warm timbers and weather resistant metals form a harmonious composition alongside locally sourced lava stones, celebrating the beauty of humble, natural materials.
Completion: 2003
This eco-town occupies a naturally vegetated site adjacent to the International Horticultural Expo, on the north-eastern fringes of Kunming city. The project comprises four intelligent and green houses and a 2,000 sqm visitor centre on a five hectare site, conceptually showcasing a vision for the adjacent 255 hectare development of some 2,000 houses. One of the key ambitions is to establish a platform for active research and the evaluation of new technologies in both real-life utilization and real-time visitor responses. The project also played an important role in the education of the general public, school children, home buyers and real estate developers in raising awareness of environmental issues.
Completion: 2011
This eco guest house is conceived as a village for travelers, with 17 guest suites in a cluster of four L-shaped structures linked by natural trails and courtyards at varying levels. Densely landscaped with many retained trees, the timber clad building with reconstituted bamboo decking is a simple arrangement of forms largely devoid of decoration. Primary sustainable technologies applied include passive design to maximize day lighting and natural ventilation, site watershed conservation, solar thermal hot water, rainwater recycling and grey water reuse, a highly insulated envelope, reconstituted bamboo with low embodied energy, habitat preservation and intelligent building control.
Completion: 2012
The exhibition explored the context of the regeneration of South East Kowloon in Hong Kong, the redevelopment of which became feasible following the departure of Kai Tak Airport in 1998. As curators we became ghostwriters, threading stories from past, present and future through real and speculative propositions for the South East Kowloon development area and beyond: cutting and pasting, juxtaposing and re-contextualising, time-shifting. We saw this as a way of recreating the complex, partial, fragmented experience of passing through a city full of competing voices and spaces.
