Fresh in urban

FRESH IN URBAN Recreating the village activity in the city

FOREWORD This proposal argues the contemporary situation of urban villages in China. Rather than demolishing, urban villages need more protective methods to remain the existing characters and provide more values to the urban city. It need of a comprehensive solution to its problems of unbalanced urban structure. So the proposal document re-thinking of the character of urban village, connect the characters of it rather than isolated them. And strategies will be briefly introduced in different scales through the document, but will detail looking on the small scales which is the daily life of the villagers and surrounding residents. Understanding their life style and living activities as a way to expand it, not its form physically, but the advantages of the village.

WANGZENG VILLAGE

旺增新村 WANGZENG VILLAGE

旺增新村 WANGZENG VILLAGE

旺增新村

CONTENTS

Introduction

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The Vision for Wangzeng Village

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Urban Villages In Wenzhou

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Village Condition

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Macro Strategy

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Testing Ground

15 Context Observation

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Mobile Commercial Programs

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Activating Space

19 Opening space

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Inviting Business

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Distributing Circulation

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Living Style Pattern Refurbishment of Building Facade

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Area One

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Area Two

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Area Three

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Area Four

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Area Five: Connecting To Urban

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Expansion

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Management

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Car Parking

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Furniture Management

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Infrastructure Location

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Today, more and more urban villages have been demolished by the government because issues they brought to the city have became the obstacle, seriously effect the living qualities and development of the modern city. However, demolishing the urban village destroys the urban structure. Moreover, it destroys a part of Chinese architectural and cultural history.

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INTRODUCTION The Fresh in City is a project of development urban village in China. With the booming of the economic in Wenzhou, China, Wangzeng village is the village transformed from the native village by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in the economic advanced regions. The intention of the project is going to investigate the relationship between urban village and the new urban context, transform it allows fitting into the current and future urban city.

The project aims to propose a flexible strategy that can both support the commercial development of the area and address the needs of residents who are living around. As the development around the Wangzeng Village, it destroys the strong community of residents live in the high raised apartments, and creates many issues for the village. So solutions for these are using urban and village’s activities reviving and reactivating the edge space of the city and the village, thickening the boundary by plug in the activities in order to create social values and economical opportunities.

So based on the abundant and changeful living habits of the urban village, the proposal is demonstrating the shifts and flexible of the space through different types of urban furniture. All the furniture was designed and located due to the living patterns of the residents and the needs of the space. They are available to change and move to feed the different needs of different people in different time. So the shift and flexible ideas are not only on the furniture but also the space.

The new space designed by using activities has the permeability adapt into surrounding neighbourhoods to bring the change to the city and back to the village in order to solve the issues of both sides.

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The Vision

THE VISION FOR WANGZENG VILLAGE WANGZENG VILLAGE WILL BE A CORE SPACE OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITY AND CHOICE This will achieved by: •

Connecting urban village will the city

• Inviting more business opportunities to the village • Reorganising space characters • Providing multi-function spaces for residents • Plug-in mobile furnitures to enhance the space qualities with the resident’s activities The new plan: • Sets a vision for local residents through Fresh In Urban strategy proposal • • Enhance the social value of urban village as one part of the Chinese urbanisation development • • Enhance the economic value for residents and also the government.

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Urban Villages In Wenzhou

Wangzheng Village

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Wangzeng Village

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Village Condition

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Macro Strategy

1 Testing Ground 2 Activating Space 3 Expansion

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Phase One Testing Ground

Testing Ground is the strategy looking at the existing community space inside the village, bring the community qualities and economic structures out and emphasis them into another space. Address and test them in the same time to see how they operate and corporate in the space and with the residents.

The new space will be activated by the qualities of the urban village itself, gives the value back to the community and the neighbourhood.

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Context Observation

Chaos of the space Parking on pedestrian pathway Disorganised building facade

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Activities happening under the shelter Dry clothes Entertainment: play chess & card games Chat and observation: looking at kids play or people passing

Activities in community space Temporary market Mobile Stalls

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Mobile Commercial Programs DESIGN PROGRAMS

commercial

small

medium

large

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Phase Two Activating Space

In order to change the situation of the urban village as its issues, the strategy used in small community scale is to reform the community spaces in urban village. Reactivating those spaces by analysis its qualities, and using these qualities to rebuild the activities. The activities can influence residents’ daily life, afford their needs, provide opportunities for them to communication and relaxation

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Activating Space

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The intention of the design is trying to enhance the residents’ activities by the inter-relationship of themselves.

The design is based on their living habits, and the activity shifts due to the time shift.

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Opening space In order to using the space to connect the village and the urban, strategy one is to open the site to both village and city apartments area, and inviting new business opportunities to site to activate the existing condition.

opening site

Before

After

Fence between urban village and the modern city apartments 22

Private garden owned by residents who living on ground floor City apartment blocks

Urban village

Existing circulation

Purposed circulation

Integrate pavements

fence need to remove

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Inviting Business

Inviting business as the threats to stimulate the environment, using commercial methods to attracts people to the site and activating the space.

Benefits: Increase local landlord’s income Increase local residents’ income Convenient neighbourhoods Creating communication places

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Restaurant Tea house Food stall

property rent out for business purpose property rent out for residential use

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Distributing Circulation

Benefits: Integrate spatial qualities Blurry the boundary of urban village Convenience people

Original circulation on the site

New circulation

main activity area shop-front pedestrain path

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original ciculation

circulation after space subdivided

space requirement shelter provides shade building facade attracts people and provides a safet and comfortable feeling a good place for people to sit and chat if it achieve the two requirements above

rise up the pedestrain path in different pavements and build shelter above it

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Living Style Pattern

00 01. Breakfast cart 02. Restaurants serving breakfast 03. Fruit & vegetable cart 04. Snack cart 05. Roasted sweet potato cart 06. Hand-made craft stall 07. Food stall 08. Dry clothes 09. Pick up clothes 10. Wash laundry 11. Morning excises 12. Play chess & card games 13. Sit & chat 14. Kids play

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1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10a

commercial activities living habits recreation activities

8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm

The space will be reorganised based on their living behaviours. Multiple activities can happen in the same time same space, that is provide opportunities for the design interventions to corporate with these activities.

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Refurbishment of Building Facade Benefits: Enhance space visualisation , develop the streetscape fro market success

efurbishment of building facade

Chinese Lanterns Billboard

Traditional Chinese pattern for windows

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Area One

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Morning

Afternoon

Night 33

Furnitures Manual

880mm 650mm

480mm 480mm

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480mm 300mm

880mm 650mm

550mm 400mm

Multi-sized benches provide single use or group activities,

The shelter provide more activities happen.

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Area Two

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Morning

Noon

Afternoon

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Furnitures Manual

Cloth airer

Bench around tree

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Area Three

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Morning

Night 40

Furnitures Manual

Rotating chair

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Area Four: Village Farming

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Morning

Noon

Afternoon 43

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Village Entrance

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Area Five: Connecting To Urban

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Phase Three

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Phase Three Expansion

Re-address the functionality of the building in the edge

Bring values to city and back to the village

Activating the space

Expand the activities and values

The strategy of the urban village development in urban scale is using the existing characters of urban village and the city reforming the edge of urban village, blurry its existing condition by plug into different activities, and these activities are the media to revive the space, create community opportunities for people live around, and bring up the social and economic values to the urban and back to the urban village. And these new frontier spaces have the permeability to extend into the surrounding urban area and carry these values forward into the urban area.

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IN 2019

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Management

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Management

Car Parking Furniture Management Infrastructure Location

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Car Parking

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Car Parking Cross city bus

City bus

Private vehicle

Cross city buses usually are using for people travelling to other cities. Because of the cheap cost and convenient location, this is always the first preference for villagers and migrants travel to another city or go back to their hometown.

City buses are the common traffic tools for residents travel inner city, it will take them 10minutes or less to walk to the bus station and that’s the favourite travel method for them to go to city centre or go to work. Currently there have 8 bus stops around the village and 10 different routes operating to different places in city. As the growing of population in this district, there will have 6 more stops and 10 more bus routes operating by 2019.

Around 2% of the villagers have their own vehicles, which is around 120 cars and 50 motor bikes. But that number will increase in the future as the increase of the population and incomes.

Main access point Secondary access point

The new underground car parking is proposing to solve the current situation of parking everywhere in the village, along the street and on the pedestrian pathways. Instead of these, using undeveloped underground space allows high volume of vehicles come into the village.

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Parking Rules PARKING RULES All the motor vehicles are not allowed enter into the village except motorbikes. The goods supplying trucks for local stores are permit enter into the village only between 4am - 8am. There have three underground car parks available for all villagers and visitors.

PARKING A

PARKING B

PARKING C

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Furniture Management managed by Village Management Committee, including collecting, organising and maintaining

residents can use and move it at anytime any situation

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residents residents can can use use and and move move it it at at anytime anytime any any situation situation

residents have the rights to move it, but Village Management Committee need to organise and collect them after use.

residents residents have have the the rights rights to to move move it, it, but but Village Village ManageManagement Committee need to organise and collect ment Committee need to organise and collect them them after after use. use.

managed by Village Management Committee, including collecting, organising and maintaining

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by Village Village Management Management Committee, Committee, including including collecting, collecting, organising organising and and maintaining maintaining

Furniture Management

restuarant/ shop street

restuarant owner

Tables and chairs for customers are managed by the owner of the business, they have to collect them inside the shop after the business hour 59

Infrastructure Location Cloth airer board and timber board storage

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Bicycle Pods

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Cloth airer

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