圆圈
The Circles
南京金马青年社区是一个面向中国南京青年用户的居住社区。这座三塔式公寓楼有一个开放式校园，这在中国是罕见的（通常有大门和围墙）。这为景观设计师提供了重新想象中国集合住宅社区环境的绝佳机会。
The Kimma Youth Community in Nanjing is a residential community targeting the young users in Nanjing, China. This three-tower apartment complex has an open campus, which is rare (often gated and walled) in China. This offers great opportunity for landscape architect to re-imagine collected housing community environment in China.
Iconic Circles
“Circle” is used as the central landscape strategy for this residential complex. It involves creating different circles of youth that brought young people together with a spatial language of “circle”. The language forms highly iconic identity for the community.
Community Circles
许多通常在室内进行的互动节目被带到室外空间，大大超出了年轻居民的生活预期。社区景观包括各种主题“圈”——体育圈、阅读圈、分享圈、互动圈、开放圈和派对圈——通过贯穿整个社区的多功能路径连接起来。年轻一代根据个人兴趣发现不同的“圈子”。
Many interactive programs that usually take place indoors are brought to outdoor spaces, greatly exceeding lifestyle expectations of the young residents. The landscape of the community includes various themed “circles”– Athletic Circle, Reading Circle, Share Circle, Interactive Circle, Open Circle and Party Circle– which are linked by a multi-functional path that runs through the whole community. The young generation discovers different “circles” based on their personal interest.
Open Circles
Proudly, the interesting and inclusive design attracts people from adjacent neighbourhoods, who come and use the open campus as a public space. Not only young people, but also children, parents and even grandparents from other communities make great use of this residential campus.
The Circles gain different dynamics and new interpretation due to co-existence of diverse user groups, which confirm and extend our thoughts on collected housing community landscape in China. In urban housing projects, we need a more open, inclusive and flexible community environment.
Office Name: Atelier Scale, www.scalescape.com
Design Team: Huicheng Zhong, Feimin Song, Hao Lan, Guowu Lv, Bingxing Lin, Di Wang
Project location: Nanjing, China
Year Built: 2019
Photo Credit: Bing Lu, Peiri Qiu, Xi Tang
