ABSTRACT
The Sliced Porosity Block is a hybrid of different functions, like a giant chunk of a metropolis. The program calls for five towers with offices, serviced apartments, retail space, a hotel, cafes and restaurants. It is located just south of the intersection of the First Ring Road and Ren Min Nan Road in Chengdu. Its sun-sliced geometry results from required minimum sunlight exposures to the surrounding urban fabric, prescribed by code and calculated by the precise geometry of sun angles. The large public space framed by the block is formed into three valleys, inspired by the poem 'Prelude' by Tu Fu. Our micro-urban strategy will create a new terrain of public space: an urban terrace on the metropolitan scale of Rockefeller Center. The aim for the Sliced Porosity Block is to form new public space and to realize new levels of green construction in Chengdu.
