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Project 1/ Negative Space/ Leaving blank Type: Adaptive City/ AA Shanghai Global School team work Re-do / Individual Tutor: Daniel Gillen Location: Shanghai, China Period: 2 weeks/ Dec.2013
Description We are fixed mindset that city are only buildings. Look at cities like Shanghai and Hongkong, which are piled up with high-rise buildings. Just imagine this, with uncontrolled designing of buildings, we would at last find that we are living in a solid cube city, without enough open space for the city. Then we start to hunt for empty space for ourself. This happened, and will be easily ignored by the designers. Aside from the excitement of what we’ve design, the buildings, we are lost in a solid cube city and we are losing what we really need. So, why not start from the least open space we need first, design them, and the rest are the buildings?
QUESTION: CITY = BUILDING + BUILDING ??? WE DESIGN BUILDINGS?
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Lets consider a vacant land in Shanghai to be A PIECE OF BLANK PAPER. Now, we start to put buildings. At last, we find that there’re no enough space for the city, and then we start to hunt for those lost space what we really need?
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Now, lets consider the vacant land to be a SOLID CUBE, and we start to TAKE AWAY the open space, and leave the rest as buildings.
A. PUT BUILDINGS IN?
B. SOLID CITY
C. DIVIDED LAYERS
D. HIGHT TRANSITION NEEDED
E. RESULT
F . GREEN PLATEFORMS NEEDED
G. RESULT
H. GREEN SPACE IN THE AIR NEEDED
I. RESULT
J. SUN LIGHTS & WINDS NEEDED
FORMING PROCESS LEAVING BLANK FOR THE CITY
K. RESULT
L. PARKS & ROADS NEEDED
M. RESULT
O. MORE OPEN SPACES NEEDED
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METHOD MID-HIGH
LAYERS FOR NEEDS
divided the cube into six layers, each layer has its need for open space.
SITE PICKED west of huangpu river
PARAMETERIZATION SIMULATION
LOW LOW
Roads needed
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GREEN SPACE & TEXTURE
OPEN SPACE
ROADS FLOW
BUILDINGS
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LAYER-2
LAYER-3
LAYER-4
Sunlight & Wind
LAYER-5
Parks needed
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SECTION AXONOMETRY SEQUENCE
CITY = BUILDING + OPEN SPACE SOHO/OFFICE
RESIDENTIAL
CULTURAL
COMMERCIAL UNDER
GREEN PLATFORMS
SQUARES
PARKS
ROADS