LVBO Garden Villas

For this project JSA was invited to contribute a scheme on how to rebuild an abandoned residential community. Located in an inner Shanghai suburb, the existing site featured an amenity rare for new residential developments, a lush, mature landscape. The existing villa structures were beyond repair, however, so we centered our scheme on first preserving the landscape, then renewing the architecture, and finally tying the the development together with a network of paths so as to create a community, rather than a simple collection of cul-de-sac dead-ends.