UABB Birdview. Image © Chao Zhang

UABBBirdView。形象，赵章

架构师提供的文本描述。中国深圳市中心的南投古镇，始建于1700多年前的金代。在过去的一个世纪里，古镇逐渐消失，而村庄却在不断扩大。深圳城市化进程的加剧，导致了嵌入在城中的历史城镇的复杂格局交织在一起，再次被城市包围-“城中村，村中城”。

Text description provided by the architects. The Nantou Old Town in the city center of Shenzhen, China was founded as a city over 1,700 years ago starting from the Jin Dynasty. In the past century, the ancient town has gradually vanished, while the village was constantly expanding. The exacerbation of urbanization in Shenzhen has resulted in an intertwined layering with complex pattern of the historical town embedded in the urban village, which is again encircled by the city—“village in city, city in village”.

 Baode Square B4 Surrounding Street. Image © Chao Zhang

保德广场B4周边街。图像(赵章)

 Baode Square B3-3 Surrounding Street. Image © Chao Zhang

保德广场B3-3周边街。图像(赵章)

2016年初，乌尔巴纳斯的设计研究团队开始参与南投文物保护改造工程，得出结论认为，只有尊重历史的真实性，珍惜每一段时间的文化层次和历史痕迹，才能形成一个植根于当地历史文化的永恒活力的城市社区。

At the beginning of 2016, the design and research team of Urbanus started to be involved in the Nantou Preservation and Regeneration Project and concluded that only by respecting the authenticity of the history and cherishing the cultural layers and historical traces of each period of time can we shape a timelessly dynamic urban community rooted in local history and culture.

 Nantou Concept Axon

南头概念轴突

今天的南投不是传统意义上的古镇，而是一座传承了近两千年历史文化的历史文化名城，它保存了深圳各个历史时期的空间、社会和文化遗产。这是深圳城市文化的唯一宝贵样本，它既展示了千年文化遗产，又展示了中国近30年来快速城市化的全部光谱仪。

We see today’s Nantou not as an old historic town in the traditional sense, but as a historical heritage town, which carries on the history and culture of nearly two thousand years, and which preserves the spatial, social and cultural heritage of Shenzhen across every historical period. It is the only precious sample of Shenzhen’s urban culture that displays both the Millennium culture heritage a long side all optical spectral juxtaposition of China’s rapid urbanization over the last three decades.

 Baode Square B3 Surrounding Street. Image © Chao Zhang

保德广场B3周边街。图像(赵章)

 Section of Cross Street Zone

横街地带

 Baode square. Image © Chao Zhang

保德广场。图像(赵章)

在对南投进行初步研究的基础上，乌尔巴纳斯提出了在干预的指导下促进古城复兴、以文化活动促进古城复兴的发展模式。随后，经过充分的实地调查、前期的城市设计和研究工作，我们提出了将南投作为2017年UABB的主要场馆在双年场馆选择过程中的构想。

Based on the preliminary study on Nantou, Urbanus proposed a development model of promoting the rejuvenation of the ancient city with the guidance of the intervention, promoting the revival of the ancient city with cultural activities with the gradual activation from point to surface. Later on, after sufficient field investigation, urban design and research work in the early stage, we came up with the idea to propose Nantou as the main venue of 2017 UABB in the biennale venue selection process.

 Factory Zone Vego Plaza. Image © Qingshan Wu

工厂区VIGO广场。形象：吴青山

双城城市双年展(深圳)(简称UABB)以城市为主题，差异不断增长.对南投历史文献的进一步实地调查和研究，有助于我们找到一条空间更新与展览实施高度吻合的叙事线。根据UABB的城市设计策略，在为UABB定位展览空间的同时进行保护和更新，我们试图重建一个在南投非常罕见的公共开放空间系统。作为一种展览路线，该系统由建筑空间和室外场地在现场分布组成。

The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen) (shorted as UABB) is themed with Cities, Grow in Difference. Further field surveys and research into Nantou’s historical documents helped us to find a narrative line on which spatial renovation and the exhibition implementation could highly coincide. Following the urban design strategy of preservation and regeneration while locating exhibition spaces for UABB, we sought to reconstruct a public open space system which is very rare in Nantou. Serving as an exhibition route, this system consists of both architectural spaces and outdoor venues in the spot distribution.

 Factory Zone. Image © Chao Zhang

工厂区。图像(赵章)

 Axon of Main Venue

主会场轴突

 Factory Zone. Image © Chao Zhang

工厂区。图像(赵章)

展览场地由北向南、向东、向西延伸为五个区：A.工厂区、B.交叉路区、C.南门区、D.历史建筑区、E.春京街区。整个展览空间叙事由“引论、阐释、过渡、结语、集聚、开放与隐逸”七大主题交织而成，即中国文学或戏剧的开创性、发展性、变迁性和终结性与高潮结构的升华与落落。UABB的城市干预与旧城重建计划高度一致，实现了从一个到另一个的平稳过渡。

The exhibition venues are in five zones from north to south and extending out toward east and west: A. Factory Zone, B. Cross Road Zone, C. Southern Gate Zone, D. Historic Buildings Zone, and E. Chunjing Street Zone. The whole exhibition spatial narrative is formed with “Introduction, Elucidation, Transition, Conclusion, Agglomeration, Openness and Seclusion” seven interlocking themes, like the opening, developing, changing and concluding with rising and falling climax structure of Chinese literature or drama. The urban intervention of this UABB is highly consistent with the old town regeneration plan, making a smooth transition from one to the other.

 Factory Zone After Renovation. Image © Chao Zhang

厂区翻新后。图像(赵章)

在主会场的翻新过程中，设计团队挑选了大量不同的空间，并为之量身定做，其中包括嵌入在城市、街道、广场、住宅建筑、历史建筑和公园中的村庄内的工厂建筑。我们希望通过对展览空间和建筑的改造，通过有组织的活动干预艺术，为南投老城的再生和城市村庄的总体改造带来一个替代的实验机会。以“城市组织展览”的方式干预当前的城市更新进程，是一项逐步改善城市空间和提高城市生活质量的长期战略。

During the renovation of the main venue, the design team selected a great variety of spaces and tailored to, including factory buildingsin village embedded in city, streets, squares, residential buildings, historical buildings, and parks. We hope through renovation for exhibition spaces and architecture, art with organized events interventions, to bring an alternative experimental opportunity for the regeneration of Nantou Old Town and the renovation of villages in urban in general. Intervening the current urban renewal process in the way of “urban organized exhibition”, is a long-term strategy for the incremental improvement of urban spaces and the quality of urban life.

 Baode Square B4 Surrounding Street. Image © Chao Zhang

保德广场B4周边街。图像(赵章)

Architects URBANUS

Location Nantou Old Town, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Urban Design Stage - Lead Architect Yan Meng

Urban Design Stage - Project Manager Yilin Lin

Urban Design Stage - Design Team Congyi Li, Kan Liu, Xuejuan Zhang, Wendy Wu | Yanfeng Wang | (Internship) Lin Tian, Na Zheng, Yifan Wang, Siying Han

Site Area 282,637 ㎡

Floor Area 34,070 ㎡

Landscape Area 65,788 ㎡

Façade Renovation Area 25,700 ㎡

Client Nanshan District Government, Shenzhen Design Union

Project Year 2016

Photographs Qingshan Wu, Chao Zhang, Yan Meng, UABB

Category Buildings