New Words For Old City

| Old Town Regeneration

Academic & Group Work-Architecture And Urban Design Project

Date: 10/2018-12/2018(4th Year)

My Work: Concept design, Preliminary analysis, Model building, Drawing Instuctor: Hang Zhao(zhaohang@bjut.edu.cn)

Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu,China

The ancient capital city of six dynasties has been in urban regeneration progress, yet Pingshijie District was left behind. The dilapidated area served as a foil to the nearby renovated neighborhood, and the government felt the urgency to renovate it as well.

We tend to stimulate the vitality into the city by creating a commercial block that merges youth hotel, market plazas and immerse drama theater together.

When Nanjing was the economic center of the Ming Dynasty, the old town south was already the most prosperous central area, and many official residences and private mansions were settled there.

Location Analysis (illustrated by Liu xinyue)

The project site is bordered by the Pingshi street in the west, the Daban Lane in the east, and the old town houses in the north and south, which is a site closely integrated with Nanjing folk customs.

According to the characteristics of the site, we set up the entry and exit, design axes of the project, based on which we plan three thematic spaces: hotel, commercial market and immersive theater, and select some spaces as important nodes of the design.

New Shed- Roof Landscape of Old Town South (illustrated by Luo Szu-Han)

Crowd Analysis (illustrated by Liu xinyue) xinyue)

After the end of the Qing Dynasty, the old town south gradually became an area dominated by civilians, forming an exclusive living circle.

02 Mass & Connection

With the development of the new urban area, the once prosperous old town south has become a dilapidated "urban village", which looks out of place compared to the modern main urban district.

According to the plan, the old town south will be built as a leisure district with the functions of opera performance, special lodging and intangible heritage display,

Nanjing, as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, has a long history and culture. Pingshi Street in the south of the old city is an old street with a thousand-year history.

According to the plan, the area will be transformed into a historical and cultural leisure district with the positioning of old brands, special restaurants and cultural tourism.

03 Roof

04 Columns & Gratings

After researching the project and the surrounding sites, we summarized the potential users of the site. The design is intended to provide a venue for local residents, tourists, theater lovers and tradesmen.

Each part being both independent and connected, having different attributes of privacy or openness, attracting different people, thus stimulating the regional vitality of the old south town of the city and continuing its millennium glory.

05 Courtyards & Activities

06 Internal Traffics

The site is roughly divided into three parts, the northern part is the hotel, the middle part is the market, and the southern part is the theater.

The arched columns and wavy roofs transformed from the landscape and traditional architecture of Nanjing became a design language for this project.

The single unit with 4m*8m sides is the basic module of the hotel and market, which is arranged in combination according to different functions and spaces.

Based on the famous script The Nanke Dream, the architectural form is extracted from ant cave, and the corresponding spaces and flow lines are set up according to the important events experienced by the main character of the story, a bar, an entrance space and an exit space, as well as five theater spaces, which are interconnected ， people between reality and dream world.

Site Background

The project is located on Techeng Island where has the oldest and most beautiful mangrove group in China. The 22nd typhoon "Rainbow" in 2015 with strong wind level landed in Zhanjiang, the coast in the trestle in the mangrove forest was damaged to a certain extent.