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Xinyue Zhou
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CONTENT PART A 04
A.0. Introduction
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A.1. Design Futuring
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y name is Xinyue, preferred name is April, the third year student major in Architecture. I am an international student from a small city in the southern part of China, which is Suzhou. My hometown is famous of the classical Chinese Gardens, which is a representative style of the Chinese ancient architectural style.
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hen I was a child, my mother always took me traveled around those historical towns to experience the aesthetics of the ancient architecture. Thus I learned painting over a long period in order to record the beautiful views and building I saw. I finished my high school with the arts major and chose finance when I did my foundation course in Auckland of New Zealand, however, finally I found I still want to learn architecture for the reason that I think it is quite eudemonic to understand, to learn, to image, to create and to build what I like and what I want. After I started my study in Melbourne University, I understood more about this major and learned more skill of architecture. Especially the studio study, I found lots of fun of each program, and the learning from the Master Rem Koolhaas made me understand more about the modern architecture, also the importance about the technology about design and creating. Besides, I really like the modern Japanese architecture style for its clean, simple and functional characteristics. This year is my third year, as well as the last year for my undergraduate period. I really hope I could learn more skills about the grasshopper, the rhino and other technology I should learn for future and better design, meanwhile improve creativity of design.
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INTRODUCTION
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A DESIGN FUTURING
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ccording to the reading this week, both of them pointed out that nowadays ar-
chitecture has more meaning for the culture, the city and the environment. For future, architecture plays more and more important role between human society and environment, which has close connection with the sustainability. Furthermore, to compare with the modern architecture around 1900s, nowadays-modern architecture gives and creates more ideas and meaning to projects. With the improvement of technology and the changes of lifestyle, the idea of architecture becomes more and more creative and not just satisfies the needs of functions.
“Answering the ‘design futuring’ question actually requires having a clear sense of what design needs to be mobilized for or against. Even more significantly, it means changing our thinking, then how and what we design. Equally, it also requires understanding that the ‘ dialectic of sustainment’ is another basic feature of being human.”[1] Tony Fry
[1] Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg), p4
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n 2014, OMA won the competition
of the new office building for AXEL Besides, the location of the
proposals of three renowned firms, BIG,
new building is on the historical
Büro Ole Scheeren. Axel Springer is a
site of the former Berlin Wall
media company that has launched a
what was once a no-man’s
movement from print to digital media.
land. Therefore, nowadays
Thus the competition’s task was to
this building has more mean-
create additional space for the com-
ing not just for its function,
pany, especially for its digital offers and
but also for its representation
design a workplace fit for the future of
of the company, even it has
online media. The new office building
important significance for the
for the company, is not just a place
media area, or it can be a
for working, but both a symbol and a
new landmark for Berlin for its
tool for the transition that from print to
special location.
digital media.
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OMA AXEL SPRINGER CAMPUS
SPRINGER SE Company with stellar
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or this project, it features an open
valley with interconnected terraces and public workspaces for all individual, collaborative, and mobile work,
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ach floor is a covered part as a traditional work envi-
ronment that is uncovered on the terraces. Meanwhile
won favor with the jury for its forward-
the valley is designed to be mirrored to generate a three
thinking concept
dimensional canopy through technology.
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. The essence of the
design is a series of terraced floors that together forms a ‘valley’ that creates an informal stage at the center[2] . It combines the formal and informal offices which response to the properties of the media and create a place to broadcast ideas to other parts of the company.
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IDEA VERTICAL CAMPUS I
OMA
This unbuilt project reflected a new language of
dea Vertical Campus was set in Tokyo’s rapidly
campus and a changeable lifestyle of the time.
expanding Shinjuku ward, it took a radical idea
. It is prepared for the competition in 2004, which
and design at the time. In traditional, the campus is
theme is no regular towers would be permitted.
always situated on the countryside with lots of big
For this design, Koolhaas thought that the inte-
open spaces and gardens. Most buildings are gener-
rior and exterior are significant for a building at
ated through ‘Addition’. All the necessary parts are
the same time; instead like that many high-rise
assembled, adjusted, accumulated in more or less
structures privatize their strongest features in the
pleasing compositions. Shinjyuku Vertical Campus
interior. Idea Vertical Campus is a combination
is generated by ‘Subtraction’; like Michelangelo’s
of three different schools, thus Koolhaas said that
‘Slaves’[1] .
they didn’t want to design these three schools too equal for the reason that all of them have special characteristics; each school should have their own style just like each person is different and has unique identity.
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According to the design futuring, I chose this project for its new idea and language to explain new lifestyle and the tendency of the increase of population and the density. For the sustainability of the development of the modern city, this high-rise design is meaningful and important and has its value for architecture. The Idea Vertical Campus represents the new concept of architecture and the tendency of the future architecture. However, it finally didn’t win that competition to be built, but its idea of design was accept by all of people, meanwhile brought new definition of the campus.
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