Redundant ship building yards will be regenerated into a dynamic settlement on the sea.  In our digital age, the regeneration of Wukui Island, Zhoushan, catches the dream of having ‘the world at your fingertips, the sea at your feet’.

This regeneration retains the site’s Industrial Ship Building Heritage and Identity (cranes, slipways, harbours & trophy of ship propellers), learning lessons from Melbourne, Hamburg, Glasgow Waterfront & Rotterdam Harbour.  Once one of Zhoushan’s industrial centres, ship building on Wukui Island has now been phased out, leaving the island unoccupied.

Zhoushan Dinghai government appointed John Curran Architects to carry out a regeneration master plan for new settlements that will grow out of the island’s ship building past, propelling it into the future as a new Marina City. Although Wukui is one of the smallest of Zhoushan’s core islands, at 900M long with a land area of 42 hectares, its close proximity to the archipelago’s main parent island brings huge potential and opportunity for its people.  

Total GFA:  150,000 sqm