Kaleidoscope City is a new 400 x 400 meter urban prototype for the Songjiang district designed around the promotion of social well-being.

Studies show that neighborliness, friendly or otherwise, is good for health. K-City envisions a variagated framework for social life that fosters casual social engagement in the everyday through a diversity of intermeshed urban spaces and living arrangements.

1) Scaling of social spaces in which shared community activities could take place. By producing a crenellated edge between public and private spaces we started to introduce issues of ambiguity and exposure between public and private life.

2) Density and proximity to ammenities together ensure that pedestrian traffic will remain on the street. The proposal combines the density of a Xiaochu with the nuanced urban spaces of the Lilong.

3) Flexibility in the arrangement and provision of housing untis and types ensures adaptability to China’s diverse and changing demographics.