1. MArch course proposal CUHK Doreen Heng LIU Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
School of Architecture
2009-10 Term 1+2
MArch Joint Research Seminar & Design Studio Proposal
Proposed by: Doreen Heng LIU
Post Generic City: The Case of Hua Qiang-Bei District, Shenzhen
- A Joint Research Seminar & Design Studio Proposal
Dr. Joan BUSQUETS Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Design and Planning
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
&
Dr. Doreen Heng LIU Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
SEMINAR & STUDIO PROPOSAL
Keywords:
two terms - reseach based urban design studio
architecture & urban design: industrial/Urban regeneration
observation, imagination & representation
Site:
Hua Qiang-Bei Road(HQB) locates in Huaqiangbei area in Futian District (also named Shangbu
Area). The design of area is 930 meter from south to north in length. Taking Huaqiangbei Road as the
central axis, this consultation study area is 45 hectares from Zhonghang Road and the 8th Road at
west to the Huafabei Road at east, from Hongli Road at north to Shennanzhong Road at south. And
the research improvement area is 22 hectares.
Background: (an excerpt from the Shenzhen Planning Bureau document)
Issues:
Mixing both high-end and wholesale shopping activities at the HQB area has not only created a great
economic boom to the Futian disctrict in the past 30 years, but also generated an increasing stress of
density of people and different patterns of traffic at that particualr area. With a careful consideration of
the value of different co-existence above, the district governement would like to take an opportunity of
subway construction to enter a new round of urban regeneration. A new urban design proposal is
expected and is able to address the following issues:
1. preserve the vitality of the area, and meanwhile upgrade its ultimate image;
2. ease the traffic problem and re-organize different patterns of traffic;
3. explore and utilize the vertical spatial capacity, and infrastructure;
4. improvement of the public space, and etc.
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2. MArch course proposal CUHK Doreen Heng LIU Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
Course format: with the given complexity of the project, there are two stages of the project development:
Fall 2009 Arc5701R: Research Elective - Spring 2010 Joint Studio Prep Course;
Students who will take this elective are requested to enroll in Term Two joint
studio with GSD, offered by the same faculty. This elective will serve as a prep
research course to explore the interest and define the premise for the later design
studio, but not particularly specific, it is rather general and broad. The focus is
composed of three parts:
Contextual study 1: urban design & urbanism
Contextual study 2: Mies, Corbusier, Rowe, Ungers, Koolhaas…
1) architect and city: observation & representation
2) architecture and city: idea & representation
Site study:
1) a shenzhen case
2) mapping & scenarios.
The proportion of the above contents: 2:6:3 for total 11 weeks. The Course
format: lecture, group study & presentation; group final report.
Schedule (draft):
WEEK DATE CONTENT
1 07.09.2009 M No class
2 14.09 M First teaching day briefing / Seminar: Post Generic City and Course Overview
3 21.09 M Reading & Discussion: Urban Design & Urbanism - Critique of Modernism
4 28.09 M Seminar & Discussion: Utopia Projects
5 05.10 M Group Study
6 12.10 M Group presentation 1: Urban Experiments: Projects
7 19.10 M Guest Lecture: imagination & representation
Discussion:
8 26.10 M Seminar & Discussion: Reading Koolhaas
9 02.11 M Group Study & Discussion
10 09.11 M Group Presentation 2: Urban Experiments: Architects working on Urbanism
Discussion
11 16.11 M Group Presentation 2: Urban Experiments: Architects working on Urbanism
Discussion
12 23.11 M Introduction of the Site
Seminar on Mapping
13 30.11 M Final Review Week.
Spring 2010 G9: Design Studio
Students who have taken the elective in term One will continue to take the course.
- Group Strategic Urban Design Proposal based on the Term One study and
scenarios, result in program brief, master plan and supporting materials: models,
sections, renderings, diagrams and etc.
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3. MArch course proposal CUHK Doreen Heng LIU Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
- Individual Design Project developed from each group proposal, result in
1) Individual site/area selection within the overall site;
2) Program & reasoning - in what relation to the previous master plan or research;
3) Design concept & proposal – 1:500 site model; 1:300 project model; 1:300
plans; 1:200 or 1:300 sections and 1:100 or up drawings if relevant; renderings,
diagrams & supporting materials.
Student Study Trip Itinerary& Forum*
Trip One Feb 22-27. 2009 GSD & CUHK joint research review and design workshop
- Urban Forum, Shenzhen, China
co-organized with Shenzhen Planning Bureau & Shenzhen Planning
Institutes;
Trip Two May 2009 GSD & CUHK joint studio review, GSD, USA
* The shown trips are required as joint events with GSD faculty and students.
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