LIVE INTO VOIDS

LOCATION：Hangzhou CHINA

BUILDING DATE：2022.9th

Introduction

In the context of urban sprawl and building highdensity complexes for urban development, rural life was disrupted. We wanted to create a new form of building space, merging of rural and city life. and explore the possibilities of creating a healthy life together while preserving the habits of rural life. For this reason, we will try to discuss in this design: how to create a vertical urban life while preserving rural habits?

Dilemma: In today's society, reality is full and desires are expanding, so people are trying to devour the seemingly uncontrolled gaps as much as they can. People may have already forgotten the quiet goodness in the gaps and let the excrement of life trample on the only dignity left in common.

In the wake of government regulations, reality is full and desires are inflated. With no room for manoeuvre, people try their best to devour the seemingly uncontrolled gaps, possibly having forgotten their serene beauty and allowing the excrement of life to trample on what dignity remains in our common space.

Early New China (1950s)

In the town of Xinjie, Changshan District, there are more straw huts along the farmland streets.

The 1970s and 1980s (1970s)

In the late 1980s, the government promoted the construction of multi-storey townhouses in the countryside.

We find that the conclusions we draw are often vague and indicative, that it is difficult to obtain certain criteria for making places moving —— deliberately created negative shapes often become car parks. And touching scene often happens in places where people can use their imagination to build their homes in public areas.

[TENANT RESEARCH]

There are exceptions to the seemingly hierarchical system, where two rural groups with very different living spaces live together, surrounded by each other in a labyrinth.

Interviewee: lorry driver tenant

Our site

1. break inside and create somewhere accessible for all &

2. grow along the road to respect the historical character

Step 1

Placement of voids

Step 2

Separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, placement of driveways ，cleaning of the main street， form a void on the other side

Step 3

Point of memory, maximum level negative shape - triangular plaza, responding to future high density communities.

The fragmented regeneration strategy is inefficient due to land tenure constraints. It is intended to create an open courtyard and to revitalise the single linear space of the original main street by creating a dotted monolith in dislocation with the original buildings.

In Neusheng, a large number of workers live in rented accommodation and some factories and warehouses have been established in the area. As a result, vehicle traffic and commuting peaks inevitably collide with pedestrians walking along the main street. We have therefore created a one-way lane leading to the entrance of the village on the field to the west to divert traffic.

The point renewal does not yet meet the need for density and public space, and the community needs a larger scale infrastructure. We created a twelve storey collection of houses based on a point mimic, with the lower three floors largely owned by the community. A triangular street was created at ground level and the main street was activated.

[CHANGES IN HOUSING AND LAND'OF XINSHENG VILLAGE]

Factory

House with courtyard

One-storey shop house

Front and rear courtyard townhouse

Former Residence Type 1

Semi-rental and semiowner occupied

One-storey shop house

[TYPOLOGY EVOLUTION]

Tile house

Qing Dynasty Residence

Ming Dynasty Residence

Former Residence Type 2

[TYPOLOGY IMITATION]

Point renewal is not yet sufficient to meet the demand for density and public space, and the community needs a larger scale of negative shaped space to accommodate the infrastructure.

Increase the density and place the pellets.

Typology