中国・成都にオープンした緑地の下に広がる百貨店

急速に開発が進む、中国四川省の都市 成都にオープンした〈SKP成都（SKP Chengdu）〉は、約260,000m²の敷地のほとんどが緑地に覆われ、建物の99％が緑地の下に配された、バイオフィリックな百貨店です。

百貨店業界で世界的に注目を集めるSKPグループの施設であり、現代型ラグジュアリーを探求する「SKP」、次世代型ラグジュアリーを探求する「SKP-S」を自然を融合した、都市公園と地下の建物を組み合わせたプロジェクトです。

ロンドンを拠点に活動するデザインスタジオ Sybariteが設計しました。

（以下、Sybariteから提供されたプレスキットのテキストの抄訳）

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

2022年12月にオープンしたSybariteによる〈SKP成都〉は、世界の商業マスタープラン、建築、インテリアデザインの舞台で存在感を示している。常に業界初の試みに取り組んできたSKPは世界トップクラスの百貨店として評価されている。また、北京と西安のSKP-Sは最も独創的な運営者としても知られている。

〈SKP成都〉は、ファッション、テクノロジー、アートのランドマークとなり、この都市の新たなマイルストーンとなるだろう。

Photo by Shihao Xiao, Courtesy of Sybarite

緑地の下に広がる百貨店

都市公園と地中の百貨店を組み合わせた〈SKP成都〉は、自然、現代型ラグジュアリーを探求する「SKP」、次世代型ラグジュアリーを探求する「SKP-S」が互いにつながり融合することで、勢いに満ちた豊かなカスタマージャーニーを提供している。

また、〈SKP成都〉は公共交通指向型開発（TOD：Transit Oriented Development）である。公共交通機関の近くに密度があり歩行可能な複合用途の空間をつくり出すことで、活気があり持続可能で平等なコミュニティを支えている。

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

SKP-Sは、2019年にオープンした北京では火星への移住するという非現実的な世界観を、2021年には西安で荒廃した地球に戻り再生するというノスタルジックな世界観を提示した。これに続き成都のSKP-Sは、究極のパラレル・タイム&スペースを開く「トランジション・ゲート」を通り抜け、均衡を保ちながら暮らすことができる仮説上のユートピアを提案している。

〈SKP成都〉は、親しみやすさ、可能性、本能によって形づくられた場所であり、強烈に楽観主義な場所でもある。人類の旅の物語、尽きることのない好奇心から生まれる可能性と課題が、私たちの本能的な探究心を掻き立てているのである。

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

〈SKP成都〉にはさまざまな世界が広がっており、到着するとまず、植物が織りなす庭園に足を踏み入れる。自然の中には造園された33の名所があり、何度訪れても同じ道順をたどることは決してなく、常にユニークな物語に出会うことができる。

この公園の素晴らしさは、下にあるものをまったく感じさせない、途切れることのない眺望にある。公園と呼応するように、突き出した建築物がパラレルに接続されており、下に降りていくにつれて、まるで峡谷のような景観を切り開いていく。

商業、ホスピタリティ、テクノロジー、体験、アートといった公園の下の世界は、常に動き、進化し、変化しつつ、「1つの植物の屋根の下で暮らす」という共通の物語によって支えられている。

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

成都市民に贈られた、バイオフィリックな都市スケールの商業施設

成都の環状高速道路の北側、天府大道沿いのハイテク開発区に位置する〈SKP成都〉は、700×370m、約260,000m²の敷地内にあり、そのほとんどが緑地帯に覆われ、建物の99％が緑地の下に配された、バイオフィリックな500,000m²の百貨店である。

成都市民への贈り物としてつくられた持続可能な公園でもあり、CO2排出削減とカーボンニュートラルを実現した環境に優しいスポンジ・シティのコンセプトを有している。

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

スポンジ・シティとは、ニューヨークのハイラインを設計したランドスケープアーキテクト兼都市デザイナーであるフィールド・オペレーションズ（Field Operations）とのコラボレーションによる、フロア管理、生態系インフラの強化、および水はけの改善のための新しい都市建設モデルである。

このプロジェクトは科学的計算に基づいてエネルギーを消費し、最新テクノロジーを活用して省エネ、環境保護、汚染・排出削減、低炭素生産方式を実現する。

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

〈SKP成都〉は、小売業界の変革を先導し、都市におけるその役割を再定義している。小売業界で名高いSKPと、先見性のあるデザイナーや建築家とのコラボレーションは、多様な体験を融合させたダイナミックな空間をつくり出す鍵となった。

この変革を真に体現するには、総合的なアプローチ、つまり一貫したストーリーを全体に展開し、その場所ならではの独自性と特注感を表現するアプローチが不可欠である。

SKP成都は、持続可能な「ブランド化」された公園、並行世界の豊かな物語、そして自然、商業、コミュニティのシームレスな融合により、現代の精神を体現している。

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

Photo by Nick Kuratnik, Courtesy of Sybarite

以下、Sybariteのリリース（英文）です。

SKP CHENGDU: PARK & PARALLEL WORLD 

December 2022: SKP Chengdu Park takes presence on the world stage of retail master planning, architecture and interior design by Sybarite.

SKP is no stranger to creating firsts: ranked as the top department store globally and renowned as the most inventive operators for SKP-S in Beijing and Xi’an. SKP Chengdu will immediately become a landmark for fashion, tech and art and a new milestone for the city. A holistic and collaborative project by Sybarite, realised with Field Operations, Arup, Speirs Major Buro Happold, Eckersley O’Callaghan and The Fountain Workshop,

At SKP Chengdu, nature, SKP (contemporary luxury) and SKP-S (next generation luxury) come together to conjure an undeniable sense of interconnectedness: an ingenious combination of urban park and underground buildings. SKP Chengdu is a TOD (Transit Oriented Development): it creates dense, walkable, and mixed-use spaces near transits that support vibrant, sustainable and equitable communities.

Casting our minds back to 2019, SKP-S successfully pushed and challenged what we think we know in retail terms by presenting the otherworldliness of moving to Mars in Beijing and the nostalgia of returning to a devastated Earth for rebirth in Xi’an in 2021. In continuance, Chengdu SKP-S proposes a hypothetical utopia where we can live in equilibrium through a Gate of Transition which opens up the ultimate in parallel time and space.

SKP Chengdu is a place shaped by familiarity, possibility, and instinct – a place of fierce optimism. It is where destiny is calling us. A story of the journey of humanity, the possibilities and challenges of endless curiosity and captures our instinctive desire to explore.

There are many worlds within SKP Chengdu which reveal themselves upon arrival to the park and its botanical quilt of gardens: comprising 33 crafted landscapes and scenic spots in nature. Regardless of how many times you enter the park, you may never follow the same path – the stories you encounter will always be unique.

The magnificence of the SKP Park lies in an uninterrupted vista without a hint of what lies below. The parallel connection of park and corresponding plunging architecture emerges as quarried into the landscape akin to a canyon as one descends. A sunken world of retail, hospitality, tech, experience and art are constantly in motion, evolving and changing, and yet underpinned by a common narrative – a celebration of diversity living under one ‘botanical roof’.

SKP Chengdu represents individuality in harmony and a parallel world where everything comes together to showcase what is possible in this journey from elegance to energy: SKP to SKP-S.

“I see SKP Park Chengdu like a symphony, a lengthy composition with several movements that have rhythm, a pulse and that crescendo every so often. Our ambition in designing this immense destination whose sum of parts come together to evolve the dexterous SKP language and retail offer that we conceived some ten years ago on an exponential level”. Torquil McIntosh, Co-Founder, Sybarite

THE ESSENTIAL FACTS 

・Located in Chengdu north of the Ring Expressway in the High-Tech Zone on Tianfu Avenue, opposite the New Century Global Centre, within a Green Belt site covering 700 x 370 metres. Demonstrating three-dimensional transportation, green ecology and high-end commerce this is a low-carbon city development and an innovative smart city development.

・260,000 m², 190 Acres, 99% of buildings below ground, 30 metres below ground. Divided into four major areas (Chengdu SKP , Chengdu SKP-S, K Avenue & G Avenue (luxury cuisine and fashion avenues, 250 metres long)

・Half a million square metres of mixed-use retail (with well over 1,300 first tier global brands) and hospitality as a biophilic masterplan.

・The largest sunken luxury retail masterplan, a new blueprint.

・A TOD (Transit Oriented Development). Covering 5 floors with retail and shopping spaces spanning 12 metres below ground, below this 3 parking lots with over 2,400 parking spaces. Multiple subway lines cross under SKP, Line 18 direct to Tianfu International Airport.

・A sustainable park created as a gift for the citizens of Chengdu with a sponge city concept that is green with carbon emission reduction and carbon neutrality. Sponge City Construction is a new urban construction model for floor management, strengthening ecological infrastructure and drainage in collaboration with Field Operations (High Line NYC).

・The project consumes energy based on scientific calculation and leverages the latest technology to achieve energy saving, environmental protection, pollution and emission reduction and low carbon production methods.

・SKP Chengdu and Huawei jointly built a Smart Operation Management Platform, based on Huawei’s cloud-edge collaboration solution (for parking, security, air quality management) to achieve openness, co-governance and interconnection between systems to improve the operation and efficiency of property, security and business, The digital world is brought into every corner of the park.

・SKP & SKP-S bookending the site connected by avenues of hospitality, experience and lifestyle.

・The most recognized and reputable brands (over 1,300 with customised appearances and products exclusively for Chengdu including a signature fragrance by Olfactory adapted per area and a curated three-part music journey by French mixologists) alongside cutting-edge new talent across fashion, food (at Gourmet Avenue with Michelin Starred and Black Pearl Restaurants as well an array of comprehensive cuisines and a food market), lifestyle, art, culture.

・The Tower of Life set in the Land of Abundance – a series of lantern-like towering water beacon sculptures of 26 and 36 metres creating their own dramatic micro-climate and an interaction with fluctuating light settings and shadows. Some 5,328 nozzles, 270 sprays, 5,328 downwards spotlights, 240 downwards spotlights, 53 water pumps. Equipped with purification equipment, softening and disinfecting equipment.

・Present in SKP-S are mysterious species: The Floating Populus – a ‘Desert Warrior’ representing the strongest life power (when the Populus Euphratica Driftwood logs touch the digital age, the ancient life forms continue to grow in a new way), the Gorilla Spacewalk represents the fusion of time and space and breaking through the time barrier, The Supernova, inspired by stars and planets, light and gravitational waves as stars evolve triggering the overlap and connection if time and space. It rotates in three layers to remind us that everything is in motion, it transforms continuously.

・Sybarite working as architects, designers, collaborators, branders, artists, sculptors, and curators and blurring the boundaries in their usual approach.

ABOUT SYBARITE

Sybarite was founded in 2002 by Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell with an ethos to weave narrative and architectural and design codes into buildings, environments, masterplans and infrastructure projects.

The studio’s holistic approach to architecture and design positions itself perfectly for projects seeking conception, rebranding and repositioning to attain destination status.

Sybarite have built a strong and credible reputation for retail and hospitality projects which are fundamentally driven by human behaviour and environmental responsibility.

The studio’s mission for the last two decades has been to create connected spaces. Over this time, the studio has adeptly revitalised brands and their environments on both small and large sales, resulting in substantial commercial success for notable developers, operators and conglomerates in the luxury sector.

The London headquarters boasts a robust and highly knowledgeable multidisciplinary team of over 100 creatives, ensuring seamless and hands-on project management and coordination on a global scale.

At the core of Sybarite’s philosophy lies the strength of collaboration. We have established an unparalleled network of best-in-class international specialists, local design institutes and local architects.

「SKP CHENGDU」Sybarite 公式サイト
https://sybarite.com/work/skp-chengdu-2/