Volume Bonus Creates Additional Massing

A new building significantly taller than its neighbors. It was built after the demolition of the original four or five-story old apartments on the same plot, reaching over fifteen stories high due to additional floor area ratio obtained through urban renewal; in exchange for this additional floor area, it set back an open space and sidewalk at ground level and provided publicly accessible facilities on the lower floors. The surroundings are still low-rise old buildings that have not been renewed, and the height difference between the new and old is extremely striking. Avoid: making the new building similar in height to its surroundings, thus obscuring the difference in floor area ratio, renewing the surroundings as well, omitting the ground-level setback and open space, or having an increase in volume without corresponding public benefit contributions.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟明顯高過鄰居的新建築。它是同一塊地上原本四五層的老公寓拆除後蓋起來的,高度達十五層以上,因為更新取得了額外的容積;為了換到這些容積,它在地面層退縮出一塊開放空間與人行道,並在低樓層設置了對外開放的公共設施。周圍仍然是未更新的低矮老屋,新舊的高差極為突兀。避免:讓新建築與周邊高度相近看不出容積差異、把周邊也一起更新、省略地面層的退縮與開放空間、讓量體的增加沒有對應的公益回饋。