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OCEAN CN Consultancy Network: Second Development Zone, Umekita Area, Osaka, Japan
Author(s) -
Verebes Tom
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1985
Subject(s) - beijing , futures contract , urbanism , architecture , work (physics) , competition (biology) , telecommunications , architectural engineering , regional science , geography , engineering , business , china , finance , archaeology , mechanical engineering , ecology , biology
OCEAN CN Consultancy Network is a Hong Kong‐based specialist design consultancy with links to Beijing, Shanghai and London. Its work spans architecture and urbanism. In Asia, an adaptive and interactive approach has been developed for urban masterplanning, as well as for infrastructural and cultural projects. Here Guest‐Editor and Creative Director of OCEAN CN Tom Verebes describes the network's invited competition entry for the Second Development Zone of the Umekita Area in Osaka, which in its adaptive approach embraces local specificity and variable futures scenarios in its adoption of customisation and new technologies.