THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
Situated at the confluence of two rivers in shanghai, scenic architecture has developed a community center designed to meet the needs of its local population. This community centre is designed along side with the calm river and surrounded by a small amount of trees. The interaction of man-made building and natural surrounding it create a serene and relax place for the gathering of the local community members. This will enhance the mood of the busy community during the weekends thus able to enhance an effective interaction among community.
Despite being positioned far from the crowded center of the chinese metropolis, the building still falls within the city’s historical preservation district. Consequently, the scheme had to follow the region’s traditional vernacular architecture in terms of scale and style. This create a sense of local culture which symbolise the identity of local community. Thus, it is one of an iconic building for local community to carry out their activities together as one.
Besides, the community center uses locally sourced timber which has been assembled through simple and traditional construction methods. In this way, the builders not only able to save the construction cost for the building, at the same time able to save construction time for the building. Apart from that, the timbers meterial of this building are of local source, thus able to reduce the materials and transportation cost, at the same time create a sense of local place.
Centered around an external courtyard, fluid and open circulation routes weave together the collection of structures. This arrangement of spaces able to enhance the natural air circulation into out out of the building, without the aid of electrical services. Apart from that, heat also can flow out easily from the open structure which enhances the cooling effect of the building.
Internally, volumes are naturally, lit establishing a series of tranquil and serene spaces which encourage both interaction and relaxation for the local community. Thus, able to offer a peaceful and meaningful gathering place for the local community to gather and share their happy moment together. In short, it is an enjoyable and fun place for gathering and share happy moments and memories.
Victory Street Community Center by Scenic Architecture
by joana chan sing sien 1001335414
The Pinch Library And Community Center
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Architects :Olivier Ottevaere, John Lin
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Location : Yunnan, China
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Area : 80.0 sqm
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Project Year : 2014
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Unit Cost : 1600 rmb/sqm
THE PINCH is a library and community center in Shuanghe Village, Yunnan Province, China. The project is part of a government led reconstruction effort after an earthquake in Sept 2012. The majority of village houses were destroyed, leaving the residents living in tents for up to one year.
After the earthquake shattered village Shuanghe, two professors of the University of Hong Kong’s architecture department pitched in to help. They designed a building called “the Pinch” — a library and community center that was intended as a “magnet” to activate the community.
The structure was built entirely by using local available materials. This small project in terms of size and budget intention to bring the community "back" together. When the architects first time visiting the site, most of the village was destroyed. The villager are living in the tent and rebuilding their houses. There was no community spaces left. But the villagers told them that they need a learning center and also a community center for their children.
“We decided, collectively, that a library or community center at the heart of the village would be the best means to re-galvanize the strong sense of community that had existed before the earthquake,” said by the designer of Pinch.
The library was built against the backdrop of a 13-foot-tall retaining wall, a gradually-sloping roof extends to the pavement atop the wall, to provide a descending ramp between the pavement and the plaza below. The rooftop welcomes residents and their children to read, play, and enjoy the view of the new basketball court and the surrounding valley. The roof are covered in a layer of aluminum for waterproofing and clad with timber decking.
For the interior library spaces, simple school benches offer flexible seating, while polycarbonate plastic doors and windows used for the front of building; the trusses extending downward to support a floating bookshelf.
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In my opinion, this building really function well to unite the community. It is really good to see the focus on creating meaningful community spaces for all ages that invite interaction and play being used as a catalyst for a city's difficult reconstruction process. This library and surrounding plaza offers a meeting place for local residents, as well as a space where children can play and read. It providing a positive and central hub for all the community's residents. This building not only re-galvanise the community, but also change local people’s idea of timber structures. There is a long history of using timber as building material in China but it’s a practice that is rapidly disappearing.
Prior to the earthquake, the village houses were intelligently built from mud bricks and timber roof structures. Post-earthquake, the use of these local materials and construction techniques was deemed unsafe by the government and unequivocally replaced by the ubiquitous generic, three-storey, cast-in-place reinforced concrete houses. But the architect choose to persist with timber as a building material.
by Lim Chau Yang 1001438115
With - The Pinch, this timber structure building who built by local craftsmen demonstrates how local, low-tech building methods can be applied to build safe structures, as well as providing a sense of participation and pride. There was another earthquake in the village in the summer of 2014 but the library endured, showing no sign of damage. The uses of timber had reinforcing a sense of ephemerality, humility and hope after such disaster.
Chongqing Taoyuanju Community Center / Vector Architects
Architects: Vector Architects
Location: Chongqing, Chongqing, China
Architect in Charge: Gong Dong
Area: 10000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Concept :
The starting point is attempting to merge new building outline with the existing wavy topography. Instead of building an “object” in the field, we hope to create an imagery of fusing architectural form and hilly landscape together. Green roof and green walls assist to blend the volume into its natural environment, and enhance the thermal co-efficiency of building envelope.
The relationship of in and out of architecture spaces is an important aspect in our design as well. Comprising three separate volumes that each house a different function, the centre serves as a cultural, sports and health hub for the local community.At the same time, it frames out two courtyards: a sloped garden, and a green plaza where community activities take place.
In traditional Chongqing architecture, Qilou (Veranda House) is a common strategy because of the rainy weather. Such space type is adopted into the outdoor circulation system of the community center. As a result, multiple paths connect two courtyards and perimeter of the building. They relate the inside and outside of architecture closely in both visual association and physical connection by large openings and spans. At the same time, planting around the base of the structures and on their walls help to further embed the community centre into its rural setting.
The roof slopes up and down in response to the hilly site, spanning height differences across the site to unify the independent buildings. Also is the external walkways connect the various buildings.
The three major buildings have their own atrium where large skylight introduces natural light into the deep space. Openings, windows, cantilevers and corridors blur the boundary between the interior and exterior of architecture. Thus, merging the whole space together with the sky, mountain, trees, sunlight and breeze can eventually create a lively co-existing relationship of artificial structure and natural landscape.
bamboo and other trees integrate into the structure
large skylights illuminate the central atriums
Each room enjoys views of a green exterior
Exterior stair well clad in metal grate panels
Green walls hide the concrete facades
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The publicity of the community center brings various types of people including regular citizens, residents of neighborhood, and the users and staff of the community center. Our design therefore considers their stay, penetration, and interaction. They have different behavioral patterns in the building, such as strolling, gathering, performing, reading, tutoring, training, exercising, health consulting, etc.
People have designated space for such behaviors, while can also be able to actively interact with each other in an open and fluid space. We hope the community center can amplify its spirit, therefore it becomes a node to intrigue and generate public energy of urban life in the city.
"Thus, merging the whole space together with the sky, mountain, trees, sunlight and breeze can eventually create a lively co-existing relationship of artificial structure and natural landscape."
By Too Xin Yi 1001231897
Cheonggyecheon Stream
Korea
Until it was restored in 2005, Cheonggyecheon Stream existed only as a neglected waterway hidden by an overpass. Today, it has been transformed into a haven of natural beauty amidst the bustle of city life.
Cheonggyecheon is an 11 km long modern stream that runs through downtown Seoul. Created as part of an urban renewal project, Cheonggyecheon is a restoration of the stream that was once there before during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The stream was covered with an elevated highway after the Korean War (1950-1953), as part of the country's post-war economic development. Then in 2003, the elevated highway was removed to restore the stream to its present form today. The stream starts from Cheonggye Plaza, a popular cultural arts venue, and passes under a total of 22 bridges before flowing into the Hangang (River), with many attractions along its length.
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"Cheonggyecheon River Urban Design Restored the Green Heart of Seoul"
The Cheonggyecheon project is remarkable for its dramatic transformation from a seedy industrial eyesore to a nature-filled public space. In the 1940s, the Cheonggyecheon had deteriorated into an open sewer and was thus paved over with concrete for sanitation reasons. Thirty years later, an elevated freeway was built overtop the channelized river, further removing it from the public. Like many of the world’s underpasses, the area beneath the freeway was mostly avoided by the public, which considered the space rife with criminal activity and illegal dumping.
Zone 1: History
Underground waterways redirected to create a new stream bed with landscaped banks; former bridges used as decorative elements; seating to encourage the public to use the space.
Cheonggyecheon is an urban intervention with far-reaching significance for the city as a whole, as the project scope is far more extensive than the linear park. Environmentally, the restored waterway and plantings have not only changed the ecology along its banks but have affected the climatic conditions in the city center. Economically, the Cheonggyecheon has stimulated business activity in the surrounding area and, for the first time in Seoul's modern history, effectively linked the north and south of Seoul while reducing traffic pressure on the central business district by increasing the transportation capacity of buses and subways. The project stands as clear evidence that coordinated urban design can catalyze economic development, reinforce connection with the natural environment, and improve the quality of the urban condition for residents and visitors alike. Moreover, the project is paradigmatic of sustainable attitudes toward city design and development, integrating systemic public transportation improvements with meticulous ecological restoration to facilitate novel, authentic, and innovative urban experiences.
Zone 3: Nature in the middle of the city
Designed to look natural and overgrown; sections of the pier and overpass left as industrial mementoes; wetland designated as an ecological conservation area.
Zone 2: Urban and Culture
Created a park in the centre of the city with recreation areas, waterfront decks and stepping stones; designed using environmentally friendly materials, with artwork and maps on walls along the river corridor.
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by Tan Xin Kai 1001438114
One of the community architecture in Malaysia which located within the KLCC precinct, the KLCC park offers more than lush greenery in the city and it's set close to suria KLCC shopping centre. The definition of the community architecture is the friendly of the environment or movement that argues for the importance of user involvement in the design, construction and management of the environment. It's to represent the linkages between the land use patterns, urban design and transportation systems. Well management in the economics of both the public and private sectors which use building technologies and right infrastructure in construction. Design integration of natural and built environments consideration. In community architecture short term is can called in goals and needs from human and environment and to support of community and social welfare.
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It's designed by Roberto Burle Marx with the intention of seamlessly blending mankind's creations with the natural landscape. The attractions is the 10,000 sq ft man-made Lake Symphony sited at the esplanade outside suria KLCC. Comprised of two fountains programmed with 150 magical, dramatic animations, the musical fountain and its ‘dancing’ waters are a sight to behold. 50-acre urban sanctuary offers a host of amenities for the public’s enjoyment such like from a two-acre children's playground, wading pool and jogging track to shelters and benches, patterned foot-paths and sculptures. There is a 1.3km jogging path that encircles the park. You'll also find a six-level shopping mall, the Suria KLCC. That's just to make you feel at home. There's also a 43-meter elevated bridge located at the center of the park from where you can get a beautiful view of the grandiose Petronas Twin Towers.
The most people like to going closely the place is the lake symphony, has water fountains that can shoot water up to a height of 42m. These daily water shows occur at noon and in the evenings and are popular with kids. It's eco-friendly to the environments and design with the harmony connection between the human and natural. From the natural/greenary area, they has designed over 1,900 indigenous trees from 74 species; 40 of these trees were transplanted from the former Selangor Turf Club racecourse, which lies to the southeast of the city. There was give a such fresh air and cooling zone to the natural environment in the city.
So at there, people would like to take opportunities to learn and to observe the positive energy from the natural environment in the city for those peoples are living in the busy city. The purposes KLCC park is not just trying to beautify the natural environment, it's should neutralize the city environment to give peoples having a home feelings like relaxing and enjoyable in the township. The culture activities are created was based on the park facilities such like jogging, morning squat, kids playing, photo shooting, relaxing with the different species Malaysia trees, events, couple dating...and etc.
This is the community architecture and the most famous community KL places should to visit. Well planned urbanism design with the greenery in the KL city. The design objective is to carry out the stressful work mentality from the human which living in the city and the importance is to neutralize the city environment to give different visualization from the peoples. And it's also to bringing/enhance our Malaysia culture to give memories to all the peoples.
neutralize to the city
greenery to the city
culturize to the city
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