In the past year or so, Shenzhen people have added a place for Internet celebrities - Nantou Ancient City. In Shenzhen, most of the urban renewal routines are demolished and built, but the ancient city of Nantou is exempt from the fate of the word "demolition" because of its special bloodline culture, urban memory and architectural style. In August 2020, under the transformation and revitalization of Vanke, the north and south blocks of Nantou Ancient City took the lead in debuting - on the basis of maintaining the street texture and architectural form, it also integrated history and culture, exhibition curation, creative office, leisure business and quality residence, and became a diversified, complex and inclusive and vibrant community. During the Spring Festival in 2021, East and West Streets will be open. The colorful Nantou Ancient City, intangible cultural heritage, cultural and creative flash mob... A series of operational actions have pushed this ancient city with a thousand-year-old cultural context to the tide of fashion. Nantou Ancient City has become another unique destination in Shenzhen - the fusion of history and fashion, the interaction of cultural creativity, tourism and industry. And all of this is based on an exploration from symbiosis to co-creation to co-governance.
From inheritance to revitalization, it gives the ancient city a new humanities
Within 3 kilometers of Nantou Ancient City, there are 12 commercial shopping centers, 29 office buildings and 69 hotels, so prosperous and prosperous, and commercially developed. For nantou ancient city, how to break through? In addition to feelings and culture, the underlying business logic running in the market actions such as commerce, industry and commerce is also the key to the need to consider how Nantou Ancient City realizes self-hematopoiesis and achieves sustainable development.
Under the consensus, the business planning of Nantou Ancient City began to unveil - focusing on the historical and cultural axis and quality of life axis formed by the main street of the cross, and the creative factory in the north district and the creative commune in the street center park formed a linkage cultural and creative link through the central vitality core. Each block is based on factors such as history, architecture, and traditional inheritance, and is endowed with new functional connotations and humanistic attributes.
In August 2020, the North and South neighborhoods took the lead in completing the renovation and opening to the public and the public. A gathering of leading cultural, artistic, design and creative resources from Shenzhen and Hong Kong gathered here, there is the "Twin Cities Pinwei" founded by the Hong Kong Design Association to gather original works from Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and also cooperates with platforms such as the Macao Design Center to unite forces from all walks of life to continue to promote Shenzhen and Hong Kong design products; Shenzhen's local cultural and creative brands, associations and institutions, such as The Word in Cultural Space, Shenzhen Illustration Association, etc. also build a nest here; in addition, there are long-established foods from Guangdong and growing stronger than Hong Kong, such as Hong Kong Lotus Pavilion, Hong Kong's Mai Yi Zhongji Wonton Noodles, etc., the first time to enter the mainland, return to the "source", as well as a series of cultural curations with the historical and cultural excavation of Nantou Ancient City as the content carrier are also brilliantly presented here, such as the Nantou Fine Cultural Relics Exhibition, the Maritime Silk Road Export Porcelain Exhibition, the Plaque Story Exhibition, the Cultural Relics Repair Craft Studio, the Immersive Nantou Historical Interactive Experience Exhibition Hall, the Homologous Cultural Curation Exhibition, etc., using creative cultural language to tell the nostalgia of Nantou Ancient City.
From the first blooming formats and exhibitions in the north and south blocks, we can clearly see the operational mission and concept of the ancient city. Huang Nan, partner of Shenzhen Vanke Social Brand Business Department / General Manager of Nantou Ancient City Project Operation Company, said that the operation of Nantou Ancient City has two missions, one is to inherit history and culture, feel the charm of the ancient city, understand the same origin, therefore, whether from the commercial format, or from the aspect of cultural curation, have introduced a lot of Resources from Hong Kong and Macao; in addition, this is a living ancient city, to improve the infrastructure of urban villages, with modern facilities and service system communities, so as to integrate into the urban interface, This will be a very inclusive and vibrant community that will be unique to Shenzhen.
Gu cheng? Village? Find the origin of planning and operations
Yongqingfang is the old "most beautiful arcade" block in Guangzhou, and Vanke has revitalized the old street with "embroidery kung fu" through the micro-transformation mode of the old city. With the experience of Yongqingfang, in February 2019, Vanke participated in the planning and operation of Nantou Ancient City. This is a completely different new task.
First, there is the balance between history and the present. It is true that Nantou Ancient City carries the heavy responsibility of the 1700-year history of Shenzhen, and it cannot be simply regarded as a historical and cultural block for protection. The ancient city has the remnants of ancient buildings, recording the changes of time over the past thousand years, but at the same time, in the way of urban village evolution, it witnesses the miracle of the urbanization process of reform and opening up, and has the spiritual imprint of Shenzhen's construction and the function of staying in the city. Its value also lies in the present, it has the fireworks of life, it is bustling, it is self-growing, it is alive.
In operation, how to express the historical attributes of Nantou Ancient City is first in front of us - what kind of ancient city is Nantou Ancient City, how does its historical context evolve, and after experiencing thousands of years of wind and rain, what kind of appearance does it now appear? At the same time, how does it carry the residential home function of Shenzhen's urban construction and economic development? How to improve the infrastructure of urban villages, how to enhance the vitality of urban villages, and how to combine the historical and cultural attributes of ancient cities with the imprints of urban villages? ......
If the history and present of the ancient city are the propositions given to Vanke by time, then the other is the intention on the spatial level. Nantou Ancient City is not only the nostalgia of Shenzhen, the historical origin and blood significance of "the capital of eastern Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao", under the background of the "dual-district drive" policy, Nantou Ancient City is not only Shenzhen's, but also the Greater Bay Area. Shenzhen nostalgia, the ancient city of the Bay Area, in the operation, how to reflect? How to express the homologous blood connection? ......
The thinking of the two major propositions, the clarification of many contexts, and the game of many forces all need to be completed in more than a year. After considering the historical value and cultural assets of Nantou Ancient City and the cultural assets retained, based on the deep historical and political center status of "the capital of eastern Guangdong, the source of Hong Kong and Macao", Vanke reached a consensus with the government and residents - the transformation and business planning is based on historical roots, the dual-district policy is the strategy, and the re-convergence of resources is the thinking, with the goal of building the source of the historical memory of the people of Shenzhen and the root of the humanistic spirit of Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, to achieve the regional and international development of design, art, culture and creative industries, and to show vitality. The diversified characteristic blocks have developed into cultural landmarks and urban cultural business cards in the Bay Area.
In general, it is hoped that in this process, the relationship between Nantou and Hong Kong and Macao will be re-established, and the voice of Nantou in the development of the Greater Bay Area will be established. What condenses this consensus is the origin of transformation and planning, operation and development, and it is also a difficult point.
From co-creation to co-governance, pioneering exploration of community development
2 0 17 Years of Shenzhen-Hong Kong City\ Architecture Biennale activities have brought a large number of people to the ancient city, and also brought four words "urban symbiosis" to the ancient city from transformation to operation. If the transformation of Nantou Ancient City is a kind of symbiosis on the basis of respecting history and respecting the rich and diverse urban elements, then the operation of the leased area fully expresses a kind of equality and freedom of co-creation.
The reason why the ancient city will evolve into a place where cultural and creative industries gather is a strategic move after the careful layout of the nantou ancient city. Cultural and creative people are a group of people who share the same smell as the ancient city, they like the difference of the ancient city space, like the fireworks of the ancient city, which provides a different freedom and rhythm from the city. The introduction of designers and artists will change the properties of this kind of residence in the ancient city, and will bring new groups of people to change the demographic structure.
"It will be an inclusive community, with both the original owners of the original residents and the new arrivals, who live, live and consume here, and they also produce cultural content here, bringing a lot of cultural and creative exchanges." Huang Nan said, "Designers began to customize new formats that conform to the ancient city because they liked the ancient city, for example, some brands will set up cafes on the first floor, exhibition halls on the second floor, and studios on the third floor. Here they found a passion for creation. Their curatorial and creative abilities will become a continuous source of vitality for the ancient city. ”
Under the principle of controlling the façade of the ancient city and the proportion of the overall business format, Vanke will fully respect the creativity of the industry itself, and realize the benign co-creation and sustainable development between managers and tenants.
On the other hand, the original residential density of the ancient city is 15 times the average residential density of the whole Shenzhen, and the updated ancient city does not squeeze the population to the outskirts of the city, but supports a variety of products such as apartments, homestays, and hotels to form an ecosystem of living functions. About 1400 sets of Boyu products, is the first cultural scenic spot transformation project in the Boyu product line, combined with the overall style of the ancient city, in the room and public area part of the selection of materials to follow the ancient city elements as a derivative, and with Shenzhen Book City to jointly create "Shuxiang Boyu", with Xiaomi Furniture to provide intelligent equipment selection, and cooperate with Telecom to provide 100 megabit network for all rooms, enhance the living experience in the ancient city.
The complex structure of the residential population in the unmodified areas of the ancient city and the complex management of the built environment will also give the ancient city a difficult point for the sustainable development of the operation. He Yanfeng, general manager of Vanke's Southern Regional Commercial Division, believes that urban symbiosis is not only symbiosis in the past, but also believes that the community will develop in a good direction. The residential structure and community environment within the scope of the non-unified lease will also develop in a more civilized direction. In a sociological sense, this is also the subject of an urban experiment of "community co-governance".
Written/Photographed by Nandu reporter Huang Lu