UPENN_701_SUPERBLOCK/PROTOBLOCK

SuperBlock_SmartGrid

and The Architecture of the Ill-Tempered Environment Project Heritage

Hewen Jiang Yuchi Wang

Current Superblock

Current SuperBlock

Protest on SuperBlock CHANGES:

1. Parking - Public Space 2. Changing traversing road into local road 3. Slow down car speed

City Road

Parking

Public Space

Local Road

Parking

Road in Original Block

Road in SuperBlock

Urban development is not to create a brand new life-style.

Instead, it is to keep inheriting the positive parts.

Site Analysis

Site Choose

5m

51

40

0m

FAR : 1.62 Building Density : 54.7% Building Floors : 1F~10F

Site Analysis

Public

Others

Bad Public

Residential

Good Normal Unknown

Factory Residential

Exterior Public Space

Building Program

Good

Building Condition Analysis

Site Evaluation

Living Quality Bad

Good

Site Evaluation

Video Demo Site Evaluation

Site Choose

Design Focus

Architecture

Landscape System

Connection System

Connection System

Public Space in Barcelona Public Space 1

Public Space 2

Public Space 3

Public Space 4

Vitality

Vitality

Vitality

Vitality

Low

Middle

High

Super High

Public Space Evolution

CERDA PLANNPING Low Accessibility

CURRENT SUPERBLOCK Linear Space

PROPOSAL Congregated Space Higher Accessibility

Road Types in Barcelona

Roads in Eixample Zone

Roads in Ciutat Vella Zone

Width: 20m

Width: 2.5m - 20m

Advantages: 1. Efficient for car transportation 2. Better view for residents, especially those who live in corners

Advantages: 1. Different road hierachy,providing different privacy.

2. More vitality(Roads connect the plaza)

Proposed Road Type

Roads in Eixample Zone

Roads in Ciutat Vella Zone

Advantages: 1. Increase Corner Amount 2. slow down speed of different locomotion 3. Nice view for corner residents Proposed Roads and Division

Urban Fabric Creation Tool

Video Demo Windmill

Existed On-Site Attractors

Existed On-Site Attractors

Public Space Arrangement Decision Making

Video Demo Galapagos

Block Dimension

6m 45m

45m

30m

Landscape System

Tool Rulesets

Point Operation

Line Operation

Surface Operation

Landscape Deform

Pull Up inner block - landscape going up as moving in Push Down Pull Up

Push Down Push Down

Push Down

Pull Up

inner public space - landscape going down

Pull Up

Push Down Push Down Pull Up

inner block - landscape going up as moving in Push Down

Pull Up

urban through traffic - landscape going down

Public Commercial

Landscape System Green Plants can block noise from outside, creating quite space for visitors.

In the meantime, it can provide better air for the superblock.

Playground

Tunnels

People can have activities in this hard-ground space.

Landscape are connected by using tunnels under the roads, which makes the landscape into a whole system.

Underground Buildings Underground buildings are designed to increase the vitality in some part of the landscape.

Pedestrain Small pesdestrains divide the superblock into several parts, creating connections in the whole site and

Architecture

Rooftop

Balcony

Corners

Development Strategy

Roof Activities

View & Sunlight

View to Public

Massing Deformation Strategy

View

Sunlight

Wind

Tool Rulesets

PUBLIC SPACE A 1 Public Space

Public Space PUBLIC SPACEB-1 2

PUBLIC SPACEB-2 3 Public Space

Corner Conditions

Video Demo Corner Conditions

Corner Conditions

Environment Deforming

Modified Building Volumes

……

Point Operation

Line Operation

Surface Operation

Building Scales

0.3m each layer 9.0

m

6.0

m 3.0

m

m 6.0 3.0m 4.5m

Architecture Program

Underground Buildings Underground buildings are designed to increase the vitality in some part of the landscape.

Program: Commercial

Buildings in District 1 Buildings in District 2 Program: Public Commercial

Program: Residential Commercial

Mix Existing buildings are combined with new buildings.

Program: Residential Public Commercial

Green Plants can block noise from outside, creating quite space for visitors.

In the meantime, it can provide better air for the superblock.

Tunnels

Playground

Automatic Construction

Facade Strategy

Interior Space

Ecological Strategy

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Urban development is not to create a brand new life-style.

Instead, it is to keep inheriting the positive parts.