URBAN-PLANNING OF OFFICES AND HOUSING DISTRICT IN DUJIANYAN, CHINA
PRINCIPES OF SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT

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Client : City of Dujiangyan
Location : Sichuan, Chine
Project : Development of an urban island of the city center
Mission : MOE Paysage HQE®
Consultant Designer : Agence JACQUES ROUGERIE, Agence SIGNES PAYSAGES, Alain Cousseran, Emmanuel Pouille architecte urbaniste, AR ARCHITECTES
Area : 8 000m²
Cost : 30 000 K$
Date : Winning competition in May 2010

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Treated HQE® targets :

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Target 1: Harmonious relation of the buildings with their immediate environment

• In front of new administrative pole of the Center of Dujiangyan, registered on the UNESCO world heritage, the urban design of a new administrative and commercial center allows the writing of one contemporary architecture, real interpretation of a traditional Chinese motive, the crack of ice.

 

Target 5 : Water management

• The organization of the water networks in the district are done in channels that allows the implementation of Environmental techniques. Water of management is done by constructed wetlands, in echo with ancestral realizations, creating a landscaping channels and ponds in the heart of the designed district.

• Rainwater is collected from the roofs and is taken to central ponds. The water is filtered in a pond planted of reeds (Typhas Latifolias, Phragmites Australis)