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Urban Morphology Workshop
Mid-rise High-density Mixed-use Housing appropriate to Shanghai
Instructor: Stanford Anderson
Telephone: 617-253-1351
Office:
3-307
Send e-mail: soa@mit.edu
Units: 3-0-6, 3-0-9
Level: H
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Involves travel to Shanghai during the Spring holiday – last week of March 2008
Stanford Anderson
In prospect, collaboration of: Jian TANG, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian; visiting scholar, MIT, spring 2008
Short visit: a professor of architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai
TA: Wenjun GE (SMArchS '08)
W 9:30-12:30 Room 5-216
H 3-0-6; 3-0-9
This is a design-oriented workshop
There was a related workshop in Fall 2006, but its role was primarily analytic. This year will begin with analysis, but emphasize a design project (later class periods as pin-ups for design work done outside class time).
Open to SMArchS, MArch, possibly a highly qualified UG
Work toward a future MArch or SMArchS thesis welcomed
Proposition:
Urban development in Shanghai relies strongly on high-rise residential buildings. Such development alone is not conducive to the development of a diverse environment supportive of urban life.
It would be constructive to develop a range of low- and mid-rise, high density (LMRHD) residential (and mixed-use) building types that could be deployed in at least three ways:
1) as in-fill to high-rise developments
2) in continuity with existing low-rise (especially high quality lilong) housing that merits renewal and new energies (providing nearby new housing and facilitating renewal of existing housing)
3) as independent new development.
Study/Design program and calendar:
February: Familiarization with LMRHD housing precedents internationally. Familiarization with Shanghai, Shanghai building types and regulations (students may follow or inventively change such regulations)
March: Initiate design of a mid-rise high-density housing proposal for Shanghai
[In this same period, Professor Huang Yiru of Tongji will be conducting a studio on the same issues.]
Last week of March: Trip to Shanghai; base at Tongji University (with a side excursion). Collaboration of Professors Huang Yiru, Li Xiangning, Philip Yuan, and perhaps others; mutual presentations of our work and that of Professor Huang's studio. (Air fare; lodging; some meals provided)
April-May: Design development
14 May: Final presentation
Academic year 2008-09
1) Possibility of on-going individual or thesis work
2) Possible identification of MArch thesis-prep student to pursue this work in Fall 2008 or Spring 2009 (or SMArchS thesis in Spring 2009)
