Suzhou Resilience

In the context of Shanghai Green City 2040, we have extended the principle initiated by the revitalization of the Suzhou Creek concluded in 2012, and this on the most urban part of the river, the last seven linear kilometers along the water, in between the central station and the mouth on the Huangpu and Pudong district. The revitalization refers as much to the ecological and qualitative aspects of the water, but also to the fact of putting back the river in connection with the city which had turned away from it. 
With the objective of bringing the river back to life, an action plan has been set up, with a short, medium and long term strategy. Four different themes were approached: the (re)development of the river banks, the river edges and infiltration, mobility (river station and inter-modality) and, finally, depollution and re-naturalization.
At the mouth of the river, at the junction with the Bund and facing Pudong, a symbolic building with a cultural program (garden, opera, theater, conservatory) has been installed. The architecture, as well as the garden, have been staged using Chinese cultural codes (notably fengshui, pathways, framing, etc.)