DESIGN NAME: Remaking Urban Artifacts
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Pocket Spaces for Public Activities
INSPIRATION: Pocket space happens to be a spatial typology that can also be found in nearby rural area, which is called “pavilion of wind&rain”. Villagers love to gather here at the neck of the alley, exchanging tabloids, playing with caged birds, or watching chess play. This experience of living environment is the exact “genius loci” that needs to be reclaimed. By marriage with public art, pocket spaces are transformed into contemporary urban "pavilion of wind&rain".
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Pocket space lies where an alley meets a street. Messy and trivial, yet it matters to those who live here. With limited budget, the very concept of "pavilion of wind&rain" is reintroduced into pocket spaces by marriage with public art to revitalize the streetscape and retain the historic urban fabric. The vernacular cultural symbols are reinterpreted and transformed by an abstract language, inspiring nostalgia as well as making these spaces small open-air art galleries.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The designer played a role that combines planner and artist in the urban design project, which is not often seen in the discipline of planning.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Started in Mar 2019 and finished in Jan 2020
Lishui, China
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Concrete, Conten Steel, Stainless Steel, Custom Made Ceramic Plate, Custom Made Glass Brick, Fiber Reinforced Plastic
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Series of Pocket Spaces that is approximately 10-20 Sq M each.
TAGS: Urban Design, Pocket Space
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The typological study is used in this project, by introducing the typology of traditional rural pavilion into urban fabric and converting it into contemporary form to accomodate social activities and revitalize the street.
CHALLENGE: Reinterpretation of traditional symbols into contemporary language.
ADDED DATE: 2020-04-12 13:39:14
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Sangshuang Liu, Xin Chen and Yanfeng Chen
IMAGE CREDITS: Bau Studio
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