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Figs. 11.11 – 11.12 Xiao Wang ‘The Interactive Neighbourhood City’. The project aims to create a city out of small interactive neighbourhoods. A playful artefact explores the interactive changing nature of the community. Each player can control up to eight factors and more than one factor can be pulled at the same time. The overlapping pattern is changing dynamically all the time. The changing boundaries are an incentive for communicating. The final project aims to use movable buildings or structures and shifting strategies to create and connect space. This will help to regenerate the existing Bata town in East Tilbury, Essex. Fig. 11.13 Lei Song ‘Overlapping Habitats’. High rents and limited space force occupants in cities to use most spaces in their flats for multiple activities. Some of these activities overlap in space and time, making it essential
to negotiate the space with others. The project explores this concept in the context of the urban space of Bata town in East Tilbury, Essex. Fig. 11.14 Xinyi Wang ‘Soundscape City’. The project aims to reinvigorate Bata Town in East Tilbury. Sounds collected from nature can make people feel more tranquil. In the new habitat the sounds of the wind, water and birds are collected, magnified and introduced into the private and public spaces through an urban device, allowing the community to reconnect with the landscape surrounding the site.
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
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