weihai,China

239,970M²

Client

The overall design idea is to create a small new city (“city in the city”), which would be composed of diverse building styles and urban spaces. In Weihai, diverse building styles reflect the city’s history. There are traditional brick-structured houses accommodating typical fishermen’s life. Buildings of British or Japanese styles provide evidence of past foreign settlements in the city. Besides, modern buildings present a modern city. Fisherman’s Wharf would be designed to bring back fishermen’s life and reflecting various themes of the sea. The buildings should be in line with this design idea as well as the city’s fundamentals. Another guideline for design is to show diverse building styles. Design should relate to navigation, indicating intercourses with overseas cities and cultures. Different cultural elements brought here by seamen would help the wharf to become a modern recreation and entertainment park, thus enhancing Weihai’s status as an international city. Tourists would experience different building concepts and get to know how various cultures are embodied in building spaces and styles. They would find all types of architectures, as if they were in a theme park. The buildings here are grouped into 8 areas with the style and intention characteristic of the wharf.