(IN)HABIT(AT) Manufactured Islands Research Cluster 11
11.4 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
11.5 Fig. 11.4 Zhiyin (Teddy) Ai ‘Urban Living Room’. The project aims to transform the existing desolation of Bata town in Tilbury, Essex, and to introduce new life and vigour into the exisiting fabric of the old town. A forming and a programming tool is used to propose and to organise the new improved dynamic masterplan. Seven fragments are designed and tested against the site allowing a new narrative of negotiation to begin. 11.5 Hukun (Dean) Dong ‘Verge City’. The pattern of a verge city, proposed for the conditions on city peripheries, is an approach to highlight the local intrinsic landscape edges in order to create a parallel linear factious city. In the project, the site in East Tilbury is converted into two departed canvases: one is the ‘islands’ and the other is the verges that define the ‘islands’. The site verges provide the foundations to
reshape the site in this project. The intrinsic site verges can be selected with clear shapes and trends that can be utilised to determine the curvilinear paths of the entire Verge City. Following the verges the transport is supported by the light railtrack on top and the canal on the bottom. In between these two traffic lines, a series of the residences and other fabricated cells can be installed, providing accomodation and palces for work.
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