Plug-in Buit Forms
The concept of thickened ground is applied to describe the spatial strategy for Jintang Island. The implementation seeks to contribute to a more interactive figure ground relationship between the ‘built system’ and the ‘soft system’. Through thickness and complexity, different programmes and land uses are able to combine - thus creating a mixture of programmes rather than typical compartmentalised land use zoning approach. The open-ended spatial result has the capacity to combine public green space, built form and infrastructural elements. The application of the thickened ground strategy helps to merge the requirement of larger fabrics with smaller fabrics, thus increasing the overall value, open space usage, and life at street levels. In addition, the movement of logistics can be treated separately through thickness, thus eliminating strong traffic barriers within civic streetscapes.
Folded Landscape Carpet
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Ground Podiums
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ITE VOLUTION - Multi-layered Morphology The built fabric adaptively react to urban and contextual density parameters (heterogeneity) while while maintaining a coherent urban structure with integrated open spaces. The overall tectonic system is an inter-articulated surfaces (folded carpet and podiums), a thicked ground, that demonstrate the correlation with the environment. Additional massing can be applied on top as plug-in units to increase habitation at high density areas.
Ground System (Hardscape & Softscape
CURRICULUM VITAE STANLEY CHUANG
PROJECT PORTFOLIO AA DESIGN RESEARCH / CAPILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE CHINA / COMPETITION RIJEKA / MSP PARTNERS / TERENCE O’ROURKE / LIU KUO
EXHIBITIONS LONDON / RIJEKA / SHANGHAI
CAPILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE
THICKENED GROUND