Tingwei Xu
Master of Architecture II University of Pennsylvania 2012
Plastic System
Exiting Building
New Surface
As the surface serves as a waterproof for the buildings, in turn, the building provides structure support to the surface.
New Building
Section
Transforming Space
+70 Feet Cut
+50 Feet Cut
New Urban Space
Ecology System All sufaces form a new lattice system on the site. Finally, the system simultaneously evolves into an unprecedented ecological area in New York.
Roof Park
Macau - Urban Refreshing of Sidakou Area Academic Work at Huaqiao University 2011 Sponsored by Macau Culture Affairs Bureau Tutor: Yuan Long
As the most density city of the world, Macau’s city developing history is kind of a self-organization development without little up-bottom planning. This kind of urban characteristic on one hand make Macau a amazing city with such a city energy. On the other hand, without any design some areas which has much more urban vitalization potential are in a chaos level currently. Our site, Sidakou, contains multiple urban elements such as a small plaza, some historical architectures and the appropinquity to the city bay. However, whitout any necessary organization. such a potential area now is quite chaotic and disorder for living. Making it a cold zone of traveling of Macau. Using a ‘acupuncture therapy’ we do some surgery in this area to organize the positive elements such as plaza, city bay and small parks into a contiunous experience. Thus, this area is refreshed into a active zone to attract people coming in.