FISH DESIGN

In the times when ecological matters deeply inform LILA’s consideration, Super Tube feels remarkably surprising, creative and refreshing. FISH Design turned The Shanghai underpass into a phantasmagorical landscape that finds its inspiration in the artificial, urban language of signage and infrastructure and offers a meticulously designed and executed playscape. It draws from several historical references of graphic and on-site design and provides a colourful and cheerful new interpretation of formerly uncanny underpass spaces. Super Tube is an honest tribute to city life, to flashy, saturated, and perplexing navigating through hyper-urban centres full of infrastructure and visual density. It is extremely fun; one can find references to moments in contemporary Chinese art and design or even perhaps to Memphis Style, pop art, or hyper-pop.

In pursuit of building an outstanding global city, Shanghai has proposed the “Park City Planning” that aims at constructing a park city with Chinese characteristics, era features, and Shanghai’s unique traits. By 2025, the number of various parks in Shanghai will increase from over 400 to over 1000. By 2035, the basic construction of Shanghai’s […]

The 650㎡private garden is located in the suburb of Shanghai. The space of the site is extremely irregular. The primary task is to reshape the spatial experience by planning circulations and guiding the sight through our design. Based on that, we hope to create a garden that is storytelling, poetic and visually appealing, and could […]

Site Context The 3-hectare Underpass Park of Shanghai is a brownfield renovation project located under the downtown freeway overpass. In a forgotten and derelict place, the existing site was depressing, desolate and unpleasant with heavy shadow, complicated adjacent traffic and fragmented fenced spaces surrounded by freeways and grey infrastructures. Goals & Strategies The project aims […]