1. Design Scope:

The scope of urban design of Shajing Avenue area (hereinafter called “Shajing Avenue area”) has an area of about 3 square kilometers, reaching Beihuan Road on the north, Xihuan Road on the west, Huanzhen Road and Shiyan Canal on the east, and Chuangxin Road (planned Liaofeng Road) on the south, in which about 1.4km2 is reconstruction area, historic scenic area of Shajing ancient village and market is about 23ha, and the rest is approved and planned projects under construction and retention area of the current situation.

Fig. 6– Urban design scope of Shajing Avenue area @Preliminary study drawings of key urban renewal unit

2. Extent of Work: Detailed Urban Design Scheme

With core objective of forming the internal and external organic integration of the area, complementing the internal and external function of the ancient village and market, and integrated space with coordinated spatial scenery, establish the overall space system of the area, such as planning structure, functional arrangement, traffic organization, open space, underground space, building height control, etc. Carry out fine design of building form and landscape for the important open space and public node in the reconstruction area and historic scenic area, propose the overall conservation and activation utilization strategy and classified building protection renovation conceptual scheme within the historic scenic area, and arrange the plot division, development control indicators of each plot and building layout as per development scale requirement of reconstruction area.

3. Key Design Focus

3.1 History Conservation and Activation

Shajing Avenue area carries over the mission of building a living dictionary of Shenzhen’s local culture, a chronicle of maritime trade, and branding of cultural tourism. Based on the existing historical research results, the urban design will take the coexistence of cultural heritage survival and modern program development of the historic scenic area as its core objective, extend the historical pattern of the historic scenic area of Shajing Ancient Village, and inherit and reinforce the historical cultural value and characteristics to incorporate into the modern urban development, with focus on the following contents:

--- Based on the unified market operation mode, encourage to embed such programs as cultural leisure tourism, cultural entrepreneurship, and supporting public facilities, and explore the new mode and new approach for activation of historic scenic area.

--- Pay attention to the humanistic value of historical public space and traditional production & living space. Put emphasis on forming the important public vitality space around the cultural relics, historic buildings and historic environment elements within the conservation area.

--- Pay attention to the disaster prevention resilience and landscape leisure value of the watery lanes & streets and historic field ponds. Follow the layout of historical natural elements, highlight the water environment and historic value of Longjin River and Yabian River, and optimize the water form and surrounding green land form.

3.2 Organic Integration of New and Old Urban Area

Pay attention to the harmony between the new building style and traditional building style in the historic scenic area, focus on the interaction and extension of programs inside and outside the ancient village and market, and ensure the continuity and integrity of the spatial systems inside and outside the ancient village and market, such as public space, green landscape, slow traffic, etc.

--- Focus on studying the control requirement for new buildings in the construction control area. The new buildings adjacent to the historic scenic area of Shajing ancient village and market shall coordinate and echo with the functional and spatial form of the historic scenic area.

--- Under the high-intensity development, study on how to form the organic integration of new and old urban style through the spatial arrangement and design of building layout, building height and building form.

3.3 Effective Traffic Solutions

Fully understand the dual pressure of historic scenic area: cultural tourism traffic distribution and traffic demand in high-intensity new urban area, and provide effective traffic solutions.

--- Advocate priority on public transport and slow traffic.

--- Fully respect the street layout of the historic scenic area. On the basis of meeting the safety and emergency demand, allow to broaden the road inside the scenic area with caution.

--- Emphasize the respect and appropriate concession of road planning towards history conservation. Based on the requirement of setting up two-way six-lane road with some area road boundary width of 29-32.5m for Shajing Avenue, try to minimize the impact of new urban trunk road on the historic scenic area and form the road space with appropriate scale. Mainly optimize the line position of Shajing Avenue, and carry out design on road section, building setback, street scale, street landscape, etc.

3.Bird’s Eye View of Shajing Avenue Area

Fig. 7–Bird’s eye view of Shajing Avenue area @Preliminary study drawings of key urban renewal unit

 Fig. 8–Panoramic bird’s eye view of historic scenic area of Shajing ancient village and market @Preliminary study drawings of key urban renewal unit

(1) Open application is adopted for this consultation, and there is no qualification requirement. The applicant must be independent legal entity or institution registered at home and abroad. For overseas agency, it must make joint application together with independent legal entity registered in China.

(2) Consortium is encouraged, with no limit on number of the consortium members. The consortium member cannot make application separately either by itself or by forming other consortium with other design agencies in another name. The consortium members need to sign the Consortium Agreement with legal effect, specifying the leading member, work division of each member, etc. The application by individual or group of individuals is not accepted.

(3) Priority will be given to teams with similar design experience:

a) Rich urban renewal and urban design project experience;

b) Comprehensive research capability on historic area space activation and utilization as well as sustainable operation, e.g. historic cultural block, historic scenic area, etc.

(4) The planning designers participating in this international consultation shall be registered personnel of the design agencies. Chief designers shall be persons who have led several projects of the same type with over 5 years of relevant working experience and must directly participate in the whole consulting design process, attending and reporting in the site survey, review Q & A and result presentation. To ensure that the project planning designers have an accurate understanding of the regional background of China and the related requirements, the project planning designers shall have at least one person fluent in Chinese;

(5) Before 15:00 of July 20, 2021 Beijing Time, the applying design agency or consortium shall submit the complete application materials for this international consultation to the designated place, marking on the envelope “Application Materials for International Consultation on Urban Design of Key Urban Renewal Unit of Shajing Avenue Area”. For the content of application materials, refer to Consulting Rules “4. Composition of prequalification application document”.

(6) Please access the website or scan the QR code to access and register the application information before the application deadline:

http://hi07552w.mikecrm.com/1aBhpSK 

“Open tender” is adopted for this international consultation:

First stage – Prequalification: With overall consideration on the applicant achievements and experience, proposed project team members and experience, company qualification and industry reputation, the Host will set up the prequalification review committee according to the law and select 6 shortlisted agencies (without ranking) and 2 alternative agencies (with ranking) at the prequalification stage to enter the stage of urban design scheme.

Second stage – Urban design scheme: 6 shortlisted agencies will submit urban design scheme. The Host will set up a jury panel according to the rules and regulations to select non-ranking top three winners and recommend to the Host. Based on the full respect on the review opinions of the experts, the Host will discuss to determine the ranking of the top three winners.

Third stage – Consultation result development: Based on the full respect on the review opinions of the experts, the Host will determine the ranking of top three schemes. The design agency or consortium getting the first prize and history activation award will be taken as one of the design agencies for international consultation result development, and collaborate with each special planning team for each specialty regarding the key urban renewal unit of Shajing Avenue area, to jointly form the urban design development result for key urban renewal unit of Shajing Avenue area (The extent of design and work content shall conform to the Guidelines for Reconstruction-oriented Urban Regeneration Unit Plan of Shenzhen (2018 Edition) about the requirement for special study content of urban design).

All the time mentioned is Beijing time. The Host reserves the right to adjust the schedule.

First prize (1) winner will get bonus of RMB3 million and development fee of RMB1 million.

Second prize (2) winners will get bonus of RMB1.5 million respectively.

Third prize (3) winners will get bonus of RMB1 million respectively.

Besides, one history activation award will be selected, with the winner getting RMB0.8 million history activation development fee.

 Inquiry of Information

The design agency must log in the registration website and register the registration information. After confirmation, the organizer will send the Official Design Brief to the registration contact email.