Master thesis Architecture, research on Wuxi's industrial heritage, China

ALT 1.2 /basement removal The main goal is to create a new gate, a relation between the small courtyard and the outdoor spaces, by making permeable the entire ground floor of the Library. For this reason, the proposal should provide a solution (that is adaptive to the structural scheme of the Library) achieving a new basement that becomes the support for paths and is itself a path. A heavy mass is detached from the ground in apparent defiance of the laws of gravity and, in a real sense, draw the visitors inside.

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Master thesis Architecture, research on Wuxi's industrial heritage, China

Published on Mar 30, 2014

marco bencivenga

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The thesis is a part of an on-going academic research promoted by the cooperation between Interdepartmental Research Center Urban/Eco (University Federico II of Naples, Italy) and the School of design (Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China). The thesis argues about the evolution of the historical city centre of Wuxi, hand in hand with the industrial development, to understand the conversion process and necessary strategies required to install new architectural programme within the existing industrial sites, recognizing their unique conditions. Embracing multi-scaled approach, the thesis proposes new landscape chances of uses by putting the remains of industrial cores in a network that constitutes a clustering of art, history, leisure and entertainment. Among them, more attention is given to Taibaodun area, main industrial core of Wuxi, and Maoxin site, the former industrial site of Taibaodun area.

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