“Hanging Garden” Agitate the Old City (Shanghai)
Design Focus: Urban Renewal
Design Year: 2013
Project Location: Shanghai
Details:Developed an urban design plan for the lower half of Chongqing, showcased at the 2013 Shanghai Design Exhibition, where it earned ‘Excellent Exhibition Team’ recognition.
In the lower half of Chongqing, interviewed residents and joined activities like square dancing to gauge their views on living spaces. Discovered that narrow streets, dense buildings, and a shortage of gardens and public areas limit daily activities. To address this, proposed connecting separate units into clusters of social spaces and utilising existing structures and elevation changes to create multi-level interaction platforms.
Public Garden
Rooftop Garden
Conception
Residents generally express that there are too few public gardens in the city and insufficient space for dancing.
Montage
Resident Activities Integrated into Urban Fabric
Using games as a means to ‘micro-intervene’ in the transformation of marginal spaces, this urban design experiment aims to ‘stir’ the evolving marginal spaces within the perspective of cultural geography.
Section
Mountain City
City Form
Cultural Geography
Aesthetic
Micro-intervene
Building upon the landscape pattern characteristics of Chongqing’s mountains and waters, as well as the spatial attributes of the mother city, this approach injects a ‘catalyst’ into the urban fabric to stimulate new life forms, revitalizing the old city and addressing new urban demands.
Hand-Drawn Details
Rich craftsmanship details create exquisite visual effects.
