G60 will be kechuang cloud corridor of the expo park

The G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, launched by the Yangtze River Delta intergovernmental collaboration, is anchored in Songjiang, Shanghai, and targets Made in China 2025 industrial innovation. The south Songjiang campus, known as the G60 Cloud Corridor, occupies 82 hectares at the corridor's starting point and is planned for roughly one million square metres of building area. Phase one is complete: ten high-rise office towers and three commercial floors form a 570-metre-long ribbon whose roof shell reads from the air as a auspicious cloud. The north end of phase one fronts Shenzhuan Road, and the south end opens to a river and wetland; at the north edge sits the so-called Expo Park, named after two relocated World Expo pavilions—the 2010 Shanghai Expo Swiss Pavilion and the 2015 Milan Expo China Corporate United Pavilion. Landscape design by Jund Design's landscape division, led by Fu Fangfang, organises the park around the cloud-rain-soil metaphor that continues the cloud imagery of the office buildings: drifting clouds represent technology and wisdom, falling rain represents landscape creation, and fertile rivers represent new outdoor working lifestyles. Expo Park is split into Expo Plaza and Ripple Park. The 12,500-square-metre plaza between the two relocated pavilions includes a 1,000-square-metre "Expo Theatre" for gatherings and outdoor performances, and the pavilions themselves host innovation and exchange. Ripple Park extends the cloud-and-rain idea: a white ribbon rises from outdoor worktables, twists and descends to become a landscape bridge and corridor linking discussion and speaking areas. Flexible outdoor workstations serve one-person, two-person, four-person and meeting groups, liberating office workers from closed cubicles. A sunken circular outdoor lecture bowl seats about fifty people beneath tree shade. A 40-metre water ring, composed of a large lawn and an interactive water-play area, mimics natural water states from trickle to cascade and forms the park's core. The Cloud Playground, dedicated to young children, uses sky-blue surfaces to shape planets, spaceships and galaxies, linking to the water ring as a land-based adventure. The whole park is intended to make nature itself the art, giving workers and residents an immersive experience of natural truth. Client is Shanghai Lingang Songjiang High-tech Development, built by Lingang Ecology, photographed by Zhang Yong.