Text description provided by the architects. The Urban Villages of Shenzhen comprise of a series of historic cores whose presence today is precarious at best. Surrounded by the rapid expansion of the contemporary city, the dense urban fabric of these communities serves as a reminder of a past that is not so distant as it is fundamentally out of scale with the emerging forces of real estate.

• Architects

  Cooper Union, NADAAA

• Location

  Nantou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China

• Category

  Pavillion

• NADAAA Design Team

  Nader Tehrani, Katherine Faulkner, Mitch Mackowiak

• Cooper Union Design Team

  Margaux Wheelock-Shew, Jeremy Son

• Area

  110.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Nader Tehrani, Jeremy Son, Dongmei Yao, Yan Meng