Academic Team Shanghai
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Say cheese Shanghai! |
TeamThe team consists of five Chinese students; Kang Yan, Zhan Yuan, Long Wenhao, Zhang Xie and Cao Yinglin. Together they generated their vision of the future and translated this into one model, covering three slots on the Cybercity floor. |
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VisionFUTURESERVATION aims to extend the boundary of preservation to the status quo and tomorrow. It overlaps slices of city and lives of different ages on the vertical: the modern and future high-rise as structure, the buildings of past and present as border, the urban lives of diverse ages as program, FUTURESERVATION is a super museum of multiple spaces and cross time. |
Research & Inspiration |
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Based on the concept, our solution of the urban problem is to locate several huge interconnected frameworks in the urban area that are composed of the inorganic collages of futuristic architecture and traditional old buildings. The little cubes together with the frameworks as a whole will brake the situation of inorganic collage. And under the discipline of “large up, small down”, the small living spaces as well as the huge public spaces will be accumulated onto the frameworks due to the different demand in different periods. So, in time, such kind of urban arrangement will be used more and more gradually, which best embodies the urban attitude of self-organization. And, obviously, although the little cubes were added randomly onto the frameworks, they are exactly in an invisible order. In the future, maybe 50 years later from now, the people in the urban especially in Shanghai may be tired of living in the high rise residential area which is composed with “cool” spaces made up from steel and concrete. They return to the brick-composed close-to-the-ground living spaces that their elder generations used to live in, with both the pleasure and painful memory. At that time the city will be arranged with large spaces (public spaces) up and small spaces (living spaces) down. Also, with the developing trend of aging population in Shanghai it is entirely possible for the city to provide almost all the citizens with the “low altitude” living spaces. So, most possibly, the project will come true in, maybe, 2060. According to my threshold research, Shanghai currently is a city lack the integral urban plan due to the accelerated urbanization, that is to say the manner stipulation has been involved in the urban plan so much, so, as it is my turn to plan the future city, I will allow it to be more self-organized under a soft guidance, so that the city will be a more harmonious one. |
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Making of the Model
Title: Super Archive |
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Long Wenhao
Through the almost 3-year systematic design education, Peter has got accustomed to "pencil do the thinking" as well as "model do the thinking", which as he believes is the rudimentary quality of an undergraduate student. Peter is also interested in dealing with spaces to make them more art based and comfortable, based on rational analytical works.
Zhang Xie
ZhangXie is an undergraduate student from Tianjin University, China. He is interested in crossing-boundaries, thinking about our urban conditions as well as social phenomena. Since his major in architecture, he does well in physical-model-based works and diagram analysis.
Cao Yinglin
Cao Yinglin is a 4th year architecture student at Tongji University. Cao was born in Shanghai and she plans to go to the Netherlands for further study after graduation. She loves design and she will participate in this workshop as an academic student with the research and modeling work.
Kang Yan
Kang Yan is studying in the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at Fudan University. She is a sophomore of art design in digital media. Her major courses are based on the contemporary art, together with the techniques of computer software, hardware, machinery installations and videos. Kang is good at communication and she enjoys participating in various exhibitions and activities. Kang Yan also has great interest in planning and managing art projects.
Zhan Yuan
Zhan Yuan is currently a candidate for March II program at Harvard GSD. He has studied at UCLA and he is expected to receive a Bachelors degree in Architecture at Tianjin University. Zhan is interested in geometry in architecture as well as in synergism of urbanism. His recent essays can be found in the Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form (Guangzhou, 2009) and will be available in URBANUS RECORDS.
