The project is a creative catalyst for Ningbo - China’s largest clothing manufacture base and the origin of the country’s modern garment industry.
N+ is organized within four distinct districts. Located within an urban forest, a design school and a botanical garden fuse design research with biomimicry and link the central park to the river. After assessing the client brief which called for a Fashion City named Oriental Milan, tOD was able to modify the brief and set an initial strategy that called for the transformation of the masterplan into a deeply sustainable Design hub, at the core of which is a multi-disciplinary design school, supplemented with Fashion, Architecture, Art and Technology programs.
