CORK IN VOID
- Project: Dongguan Street Community Center
- Site: Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
- Personal Research
- Individual Work
CONTEXT AND TYPOLOGY
The following six pictures are the urban texture maps of several famous historical cities in China. We can clearly see that they all have a common problem: the large-scale old city texture is blocked by huge commercial mass. Therefore, some of the old towns in the junction zone have gradually declined, which are widespread problems throughout China.
The Plan of Kiev's Reconstruction
Analysis of Traditional Streets and Courtyards
Timeline of workers' cultural palace in China
Possibilities of Form
The space form of the cork is derived from the negative space of the most typical sloping roof building. I try to summarize the various combinations of the cork and the old building, and make some preliminary space divisions according to the possible functions.
Origin courtyards
Continuation of the city interface
Placing funnel-like solid in courtyards
Extending the solids to urban interface
Covering the old town texture
The conversion of positive and negative
Concept Model
Urban Axonemetric
Entrance in Interface
Cafeteria in Solid
Streets between Corks
Patio in Cork
ADAPTABILITY AND UNIVERSALITY
When the picture is unfolded along the city interface which like a thick wall, the mass of bridges spread from the urban interface to the texture of the old city. The cork activated the dilapidated old courtyard, and the bridge aroused the connection between the metropolis and the old city, so that the traditional houses that were originally blocked by huge masses were re-emerged and reborn.