03 June, 2007

PAO-ZHUAN-YIN-YU --- integrated urban environment












Regeneration of an obsolete transportation route, which is embraced in an undefined, chaotic environment as a result of urban expansion. There's no clear urban identity, nor traces of conscious planning, everything was floating in the air.

Therefore I proposed a dominent, self-standing system called PAO-ZHUAN-YIN-YU in Chinese, which can be understood as a series of catalyst, each sort of 'sacrifice' itself with associative consequence emerging from the next. And that's exactly how I see the value in DESIGN can perform and contribute.

As described by the concept diagram below, the catalyst can be a particular micro action, followed by a related macro effect. Again, something new is generated by the macro, triggering the next one... This on-going process is applied on three different scales: the site with its impact on the city, the overall site landscape and architecture, and human scale details(eg.materiality).

The intensive circulation flow through the site is anticipated to be the major force to activate the design, which is an integration of the main passage with local landscape, a neighbouring school campus, and the industrial heritage existed.

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