The New Urbanism meets the Natural World

In an elegant progression of scale, legacy and application to key turning points in people's lives, MAD Associate Partner Fu Changrui explores and explains the now celebrated startling interventions in Beijing's traditional Hutong residential communities, the conversion of an 18th-century Beijing courtyard building into a colourful kindergarten which sits among the city's historic urban fabric, the massive 4000-household Baiziwan Social Housing project, and, most recently, the ZGC International Innovation Center in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing's Haidian District, blending nature and history with modernity and technological advancements.