The three major state-owned enterprises team up, this new project has a great face value.

**Beijing, Shenyuan District? Xu Di **The first batch of residential land parcels that were released this year have begun to be submitted for planning approval in stages.

On March 30, a public notice was released for the planning and design scheme of the 0703-6002 land parcel for the urban renewal project in four villages—Dinggezhuang of Songzhuang Town in Tongzhou, including Dinggezhuang, and others.

The land for construction is approximately 4.85 hectares, with a total gross construction scale of about 132,200 ㎡. Of that, the above-ground gross floor area that is eligible for planning is about 87,400 ㎡, and the plot ratio is 1.8.

There are 20 residential buildings planned, totaling about 866 households, with an average built area of 100 ㎡+ per household.

** Building layout**

The 20 buildings are arranged in rows. Villas (low-rise garden homes) are the main type, with only the three buildings on the west side being 15F mid-rise units.

The villas are arranged in a five-element pattern, with spacing between buildings of more than 30 meters. The north-south spacing between the mid-rise units is over 50 meters.

Due to limitations from the parcel conditions, the building orientations are not exactly due south or due north. The villas face southeast; the three mid-rise buildings are set at a slight angle, with a somewhat larger skew, facing toward the southwest.

The transfer documents mention that it is recommended to enrich spatial layers and sight corridors by means such as staggered building layouts and combining point blocks with slab-and-point forms.

The design should maintain overall scale coordination and order with surrounding buildings. Using a pedestrian scale as a reference, treat building façade images in segments; it is not advisable to form individual buildings with overly large mass.

Along the street, buildings should avoid being too long or too tall, so as not to create high and closed street interfaces that exert a sense of pressure on city streets.

In terms of the “mix of high and low” arrangement, the project is executed very well: one building is high and the adjacent one is low in a single row, and the heights of two neighboring buildings are basically different.

As for building massing, although the residential building numbers are separated into quite fragmented segments, in practice several buildings are still placed side by side and connected together.

The 6#, 7#, and 8# buildings form one group, with an overall frontage width of as much as 75 meters; for the three building groups on the north side, each group’s frontage width is also around 60 meters or even more.

** Unit type and “gift” areas**

Depending on different buildings, the gifted locations also have relatively large differences.

Among them, for the villas, all units on the south side have full-width, sealable balconies that can be enclosed on the front. They receive half of the area as a gift;

On the north side, part of the units receive a two-segment equipment platform, while others are directly made into a connected-type form; all of them are external structures to the building frame. However, according to Tongzhou’s scale, they are likely still able to be enclosed indoors, and they are not counted in the property’s ownership-approved gross floor area.

For the mid-rise units, their common area is already more than that of the villas. In addition, the south balcony is not full-width. After the additions, the net usable-area yield rate is lower than that of the villas by a noticeable margin.

However, because these are “full-side household” (all-facing) units, besides the north side, there is also a segment of equipment platform on the side to make up for the gifted area.

Combined with the curved arc form on the south side, the curved corner large windows are expected to provide quite impressive daylighting and views.

** Public area design**

There are two large landscape gateways—one on the east side and one on the west side—facing each other from afar.

The east side is the main gate, featuring a broad and complex gate-lobby landscape.

Once you enter the forecourt plaza, it connects to shared neighborhood spaces; the second section is a sunken courtyard; after passing through the wind-and-rain corridor, the third section is the community’s internal landscaped garden.

From the west gate, there are two elevated ground-floor spaces (void decks), located respectively at the ground floor of building 23#楼和13#.

** North side: do people and vehicles not be separated?**

On the north side, between the rows of residential buildings, 72 ground parking spaces are planned.

On the west side, there is a vehicular access/exit, shared with the fire access corridor.

That means that on the north half of the community, vehicles and pedestrians mix at ground level.

The overall community planning includes 1,044 motor-vehicle spaces. Based on 866 households, the parking ratio barely reaches about 1:1.2.

If you remove those more than 70 ground parking spaces, then each household would only be allocated about 1.12 parking spaces.

** Land acquisition recap**

On February 3, the land parcel FZX-0703-6002 for the four-village urban renewal project in Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou—Dinggezhuang and others—completed the land transfer.

Together, Beitou Property + Beijing Construction Engineering + the New Hangcheng consortium won the parcel with a bid price of 1.562 billion yuan at the base price, which translates to an estimated floor price of about 17,900 yuan/㎡.

All three companies are municipal state-owned enterprises under city administration, namely:

Beijing Beitou Real Estate Co., Ltd. was established in July 2014. Its legal representative and director is Lin Haiyan, and its general manager is Qu Chen. The company’s registered capital is 200 million yuan, with Beijing Urban Sub-center Investment and Construction Group Co., Ltd. holding 100% of the shares.

Beijing Construction Engineering Real Estate Co., Ltd., a limited liability company, was established in April 2010. Its legal representative and board chairman is Pan Jie, and its general manager is Song Peng. The company’s registered capital is 6 billion yuan, with Beijing Construction Engineering Group holding 100% of the shares.

Beijing New Hangcheng Development and Construction Co., Ltd. was established in December 2016. Its legal representative and board chairman is Sha Gang, and its general manager is Wang Miao. The company’s ownership is split equally: Beijing Urban Sub-center Investment and Construction Group and Beijing New Hangcheng Holding Co., Ltd. each hold 50%. The latter is a state-owned enterprise under the jurisdiction of Daxing District.

One week after obtaining the land, the development entity for the project—Beijing Beitou and Yi Development Real Estate Co., Ltd.—was established. The registered capital is 50 million yuan. Beitou Property holds 60%, while Beijing Construction Engineering Real Estate and New Hangcheng each hold 20%.

Liu Hui was appointed chairman of the project company, and the general manager is Ji Lintao.

Songzhuang Town is located in the northern part of Tongzhou District, far outside the East Sixth Ring Road.

According to Beijing’s urban sub-center planning, Songzhuang’s positioning is an art town, and the nearby commercial formats are mainly art museums and art galleries.

Currently, the urban streetscape is generally not developed: between large areas of vacant land, there are village houses awaiting demolition. In recent years, as some tourism resources have been developed, the catering sector has gradually grown, and living-support facilities have been rolled out one after another.

There are also quite a number of homes currently for sale in Songzhuang, including Jindi Beijing Yi Jiequ, Jian Tou Guomao Ruanshang, and Chengjian Guoyu Song, among others.

The 6002 parcel is about 4 kilometers south of the above-mentioned projects, so in terms of location it is closer to Beijing’s urban sub-center.

However, compared with segments such as Liyuan and Baliqiao in Tongzhou’s old city, there is currently no subway line that goes directly to the area surrounding the parcel, and the nearest Line 6—Lucheng Station—is nearly 5 kilometers away.

Nearby supporting facilities include Gudema (Gulde Mart) Shopping Plaza, Hualian Shopping Center (Liugexincun store), Beijing Anzhen Hospital Tongzhou Branch, Songzhuang Cultural and Creative Park, and the Lu County Ancient City Site Park, among other living-support facilities.

In January 2024, some villages in Songzhuang Town were included in the urban village renovation plan, marking a major progress in regional urbanization.

Last September, the government of Songzhuang Town announced that the relocation housing for the urban village renovation project covering four villages including Dinggezhuang (Lianggezhuang Fuyunjiaoyuan, Chunhe Jingming, Langfangyuan, Tongruijia Yuan, Houbeiying Jia Yuan, and Zhaoli Jia Yuan) had met the conditions for delivery, and the work to move in the relocation housing would be launched.

After that, a public notice was issued for the planning and design scheme of a section project for the urban village renovation area covering four villages including Dinggezhuang. The above-ground total construction area is about 139,900 ㎡, and 17 residential buildings are planned, with 7–15F units.

The residences use a “good home” design standard with 3-meter floor-to-floor heights. The exterior façade design is beautiful and generous, with varied building heights in a well-considered manner. In consideration of the needs of residents from the relocated areas regarding their village living characteristics, the relocation housing uses low-saturation cool-and-warm gray color schemes for the main elements, and the main materials use textured imitation stone paint.

There is a variety of unit types in the community, with areas ranging from 50 ㎡ to 135 ㎡, which can meet all the resettlement and relocation needs of all residents from the four villages including Dinggezhuang, among others.