Subject: REMINDER, BSA Urban Design Com Mtg, Thurs. Oct 18 5:30pm @ BSA
BSA Urban Design Com Mtg, Thurs. Oct 18 - 5:30pm @ BSA 52 Broad Street
Manuel Sanchez-Ruiz, Principal at Sasaki Associates will present:
Nov. Urban Design meeting on Wednesday Nov 14 noon at Build Boston
Sign up for meeting # B26 (no charge but you must register) –
Please put this date (Nov 14) in your calendar
This month:
Caohai North Urban Shore, Kunming, China
Caohai North Urban Shore, Kunming, ChinaReminder Regular Day + LocationManuel Sanchez-Ruiz, Principal at Sasaki Associates - will present:
BSA Urban Design Committee Meeting,
Thursday Sept 18, 5:30pm @ BSA 52 Broad Street
This is our usual 3rd Thursday meeting
We will meet at the BSA offices this month
52 Broad Street, 5th floor, Boston
Yes! Once again we invite you to hear an interesting topic;
catch up on the Urban Design activities in
Boston and have a FREE supper.
Please call the receptionist at the BSA - 617 951-1433 x221 to RSVP
so we will have enough food
Thursday Oct. 18 Don't miss it !
Known as China's "eternal spring city," Kunming has a temperate climate year
round, picturesque scenery, and a population of 4.5 million people. As it
emerges as a gateway to western China and countries to the south such as
Thailand and Vietnam, Kunming is poised for major growth. As part of three
major projects in the city, Sasaki undertook the urban design for this
comprehensive high-end residential, cultural, and entertainment development
on the north shore of the city's nearby Dianchi Lake.
Sasaki and client Shui On applied sustainable principles to the planning and
design of the complex project on 485 hectares. The plan integrates native
vegetation and open space with an environmentally responsive transportation
infrastructure connected to the city and region's existing roadways. It
dedicates about 87 hectares of the total site to a mix of high, medium, and
low-density housing and about 29 hectares to cultural facilities such as
museums, theaters, an amphitheater, and an artists' community. It also
envisions a "retail village" featuring a pedestrian street with narrow
canals and small alleys lined with shops. Other uses include an office park,
a research and development campus, hotels, recreational areas, and a golf
course.
One of the key elements of the plan is to thoroughly restore Dianchi Lake,
which has been severely polluted. The plan calls for a short-term strategy
of creating a lake "cell" isolated from the rest of the lake and filling it
with clean water. Once the lake has reached a level of recreational
cleanliness, the lake cell and the lake will be combined. This ecological
regeneration is aimed, ideally, to parallel the urban rebirth caused by the
Caohai North Shore urban planning initiative.
Manuel Sanchez-Ruiz is an Urban Designer with over twenty years of
experience in large land-planning and urban master planning projects, both
domestically and internationally. His expertise in design includes new
communities, mixed-use districts, campus plans, and waterfronts. Manuel
previously worked in architectural and urban planning capacities in his
native Colombia and in Mexico, and with another Boston firm. He joined
Sasaki in 1996.
Manuel's practice has included a visionary framework for the urban center of
Foshan, a historic city in China's Pearl River valley; a canal district in
Puerto Rico; the Stamford, CT waterfront; Caohai North Shore in Kunming
China, where he is overseeing the transformation of one of the world's most
polluted lakes into a vibrant, mixed-use urban neighborhood; and Thu Thiem,
a 700-hectare peninsula located just across from Ho Chi Minh City's central
business quarter. He also master planned Southwood, near Tallahassee,
Florida, a major new community that combines proximity to university and
research facilities with a celebration of Florida vernacular architecture.
Nov. Urban Design meeting on
Wednesday noon at Build Boston
Sign up for meeting # B26 (no charge but you must register) –
Please put this date (Nov 14) in your calendar
