Collaborative Workshop

For the first time the four-day collaborative workshop was made digitally and took place at the School of Architecture and Design at the Xipu Campus of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu and at Lund University.

The workshop was done in teams of six to eight students - a mix of students from Lund University and students from the five Chinese universities.

The workshop was perceived as an exploration and each group was given the opportunity to present their strategic vision for the future of the site on four A1 posters at the end of the workshop. During the workshop, the students were encouraged to think broad and be visionary as the intent was to open up new ways of seeing and working with the complex issues presented by the site and the city of Dujiangyan.

Given the short time during the workshop, the students worked tirelessly to express and visualize their visions through strategic diagrams, urban and detail plans, section drawings, collages, and 3D representations. The teams were ambitious and productive but also maintained a friendly environment of learning and sharing. The proposals opened up for interesting discussions and challenged the traditional approaches to urban design in the area.

Upon returning to Sweden from Germany and the completion of the workshop, the students were given 7 weeks to develop their individual design projects. Aided and guided by the tutorials and input from guests, the students were asked to develop a vision for future development through research, writing papers, and a series of design drawings that could together inspire the city of Dujiangyan towards a more sustainable tomorrow.

The following pages are a summary of the student’s projects presented on the 10th and 11th of December 2019, at the School of Architecture at Lund University. Through editing, we have selected a set of images and drawing that we feel best represents each student’s work. As a complement, each student has composed a written project description to give further insight into their work and design process and also made two physical models of a chosen part of the design site in scale 1:2 000 and 1:200 to support the project vision. It is our hope that all of the student’s hard work and energy can inspire you as much as it has inspired us throughout the semester!