The elevated 1930s railroad track in New York City has been transformed into an innovative and contemporary public park.
City with water still feel thirsty,maybe there is a solution for waterfront problems,also for HK?
Urban reclaiming the shore Taller 301 was awarded First Prize in the International Architecture Competition Urban Landscaping in Kyiv for Euro-2012. The project entitled Reclaiming the Shore consists of 413 hectares between the Dnieper River and the City Center.
Problem: The highway acts as a barrier between the city and the river. Solution: Reconnect the city and the river through landbridges.
Vertical& space under the bridge ——both possible solutions for high density
Vertical villages for European Snowbirds
The Solar Park South International design competition awarded French firms OFF architecture,PR Architect & Samuel Nageotte for their entry called Verical Villages in Calabria, Italy. The competition played with the theme of a ‘Solar Highway’, re-using sections of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway soon to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority.
The inspired form for the “Vertical Village” arose out of the viaducts morphology, particularly the piles of the struction. The deck therefore becomes the reinforcement of these residential areas through commercial spaces, equipment, medical centres and leisure spaces.
A conceptual project in my hometown where is called city of hills
Magic mountains
The urban concept for the GCBD reinstates the mountainous feeling deep into the very dense and urbanized areas of Chongqing. The new skyline consists of a composition of inhabited mountains. The mountain peaks match the high-density centres; the lower reaches of the mountains resemble areas built with low density, whereas the valleys are green open spaces.
City is like a drawing made up of canvas and patterns,site is the canvas while the artificial buildings are the patterns,most of the existing cities' patterns are designed isolated,few connections can be found.
Reverse the figure-ground relation,see what will happen