03 TRIDIMENSIONAL COMMUNITY

[ Continue the traditional courtyard lifestyle ]

Location: Nanjing, China

Type: Academic, Group with Zhang Bang, Wang Jiawei

Role: Leader

Contribution: Investigation 50％ , Conceptual design 80％ , Drawing 95％

Level: 2021 spring

Time: 1.3.2021 - 28.04.2021

Supervisor: Marco Trisciuoglio (marco.trisciuoglio@polito.it)

Bao Li (baoli@seu.edu.cn)

Courtyard house is a traditional architectutual style for Chinese families. In this project, the He-Hua-Tang block is one of the most typicals in Nanjing.

However, during the last decades, with the rise of population and the change of the social structure, He-Hua-Tang block has partly changed. The original continuous courtyard house which was owned by one big family is now cut into several parts because the owners change. The block is extremely crowded now.

On account of the worsening situation, many local residents chose to escape from this place, and on the contrary, a lot of tenants flood in, which further harmed the social structure and community connection.

So in this project, we try to improve the contemprary living situation while continuing the traditional courtyard lifestyle. The spontanous appendages in the site were noticed and became the teacher for us. We give two strategies: tridimensional, to enlarge the residential area, and reserve zone, to give a further develop space for reisdents.

Population Analysis (Author: Wang Jiawei)