Updating Shanghai: Life from the ground up

Updating Shanghai: Life from the ground up

Kuijpers, B.P.F.

Bracken, G. (mentor)
Cuperus, Y. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

ExploreLab

2013-01-24

The design is a housing project in Shanghai. It seeks to breathe new life into the old alleyway neighbourhoods of the city, particularly the now vanishing shikumen houses. By designing a bold reinvention of the typical high-rise apartment block, Jade Well Apartments recreates the rich diversity of the alleyway street life andshould act as a welcome home for their former residents (the shikumen will simultaneously be upgraded for new up-market residents). This design will enable the shikumen’s former residents to stay close to their old homes, while allowing them to keep in touch with friends and neighbours. The project’s design also allows for plenty of scope for the rich social interaction that typically takes place in the older neighbourhoods of the city.

Shanghai
China
Shikumen
Lilong
High-rise
Social

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2013-03-08

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2013 Kuijpers, B.P.F.