Fig. 9.18 Sarah Edwards, Xi An Lake Institute of the Environment. The project addresses Beijing’s issues of water pollution and congestions by providing an urban inner city retreat. The scheme is an infrastructural landscape for the monitoring and purification of the Xi An lake, located at the outer north east boundary of Beijing’s second ring road. Image shows final model looking south. Fig. 9.19 Vasilis Marcou Ilchuk, Public Calligraphy School. See Fig. 20 for more details. Exploded axonometric model. Fig. 9.20 Vasilis Marcou Ilchuk, Public Calligraphy School. The project celebrates the Chinese tradition of using public spaces within the city through spontaneous performance, fitness, play and learning. The building provides an open calligraphy school and student accommodation, archives, and exhibition hall,
whilst the architectonics provide open platforms for more spontaneous events. Image shows detail of exploded CAD model in relation to the building’s grid as a system to divide the use of individual spaces.
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