Caihongwan Public Service Center’s Roof Sealed

The effect drawing of Caihongwan Public Service Center.

By Qi Chuanbin

As a public facility on the largest social housing base in central Shanghai, Caihongwan Public Service Center achieved to seal the roof a few days ago, and the whole construction project is expected to be completed in July 2021.

Built on a triangular land, the Center is an office building with 3 floors underground and 9 floors above ground. With a total floor area of about 24,700 square meters, it is adjacent to Nanhe railway branch in the east, Liangcheng Road in the west, and Caihongwan Welfare Home for the Elderly in the north.

It is introduced that the Center provides various services for police stations, archives branch, community health service sites, sub-district cultural activities, sub-district libraries, community sports venues and so on. After completed and put into use, the Center will develop a perfect 15-min living service circle with other medical and health facilities, and cultural and entertainment facilities in Caihongwan region, in order to supply more diversified life services to the surrounding residents.

The project of the Center has taken the challenges of tight schedule, many difficulties and high standards since constructed, according to the head of the construction site. Due to difficulty in excavating foundation pit and high demands of protecting Nanhe railway branch, the project department and the railway department have worked out the foundation pit structure design and the bracing design scheme, and entrusted a professional third-party with subsidence monitoring of railway in real time every day. Once the railway subsides too much, the project department will stop excavating the pit and take technical measures.

After production resumption, the project department has increased constructors and taken other measures by adjusting the construction plan, thus maximizing to fuel the construction progress that is delayed due to the outbreak.

In order to take into account the sunshine demand of Caihongwan Welfare Home for the Elderly in the north, the project applies a stepped design to make a high-in-south and low-in-north layout, which forms rich spatial levels and architectural outlines, and enriches architectural space.

Mocuili Community met its first batch of residents in this June, which marks to complete the 1.05-million-square-meter Caihongwan social housing base.

Introducing a large number of residents, Caihongwan Community has improved both travel conditions and public facilities. Bus No. 160, No. 887 and No. 108 have offered to solve the commute difficulty for the residents in the Community. As the largest public elderly-care facility here, Caihongwan Welfare Home for the Elderly is equipped with 860 new beds, to better help take care of the elderly. Metro Select and Shanghai No. 5 Middle School are set up here, thus completing the Community with a large supermarket and a junior middle school; besides, Shanghai Fourth People's Hospital sets up a division to serve the residents here.