Studio-X BJ / Shenzhen 2015 Summer Workshop
Pingdi Low-carbon City
Directed by GSAPP faculty: Jeffrey Johnson + Adam Frampton
In collaboration with Shenzhen Design Center and Future + and Shenzhen University
SUMMER 2007
Columbia + USC Joint Summer Workshop, Hainan
SPRING 2007
More and more cities have recognized the potential cultural collateral that hosting an art biennale produces. This has created a proliferation of biennales worldwide. With this increased number, the event of the biennale has become arguably a single homogenous experience. Few have successfully differentiated themselves from others. The studio was challenged to redefine the event and physical environment of the biennale.
June 9 - July 4
Participating teams: USC School of Architecture, Beijing Urban Planning Committee, Tsinghua University, Columbia University, Seoul National University
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Columbia + USC Joint Summer Workshop 2008, Beijing
The June 2008 workshop has concluded with the presentation of the Columbia team's proposal, 'Mega-Block to Meta-Block'. A publication documenting the site research and proposal is forthcoming.
SPRING 2008
SPRING 2009
GSAPP Advanced Studio VI
Critic: Jeffrey Johnson
TA: Mercy Wong
PROGRAM
The four-week workshop will take place in Beijing, China, and will build on a number of research topics on large-scale development established during the previous China workshops as well as expand into new territories of urban investigation.
RESEARCH
a. Catalog urban development typologies.
b. In-depth fieldwork on several Beijing communities.
c. Mapping relationships of community-scale and urban-scale infrastructure and services (including GIS).
How can industrial areas be integrated into new residential developments? Is it even possible for secondary industries and residential blocks to coexist?
As Jiading and other industrial sites around Shanghai are transformed into residential superblocks, a new model for higher-density, hybrid land use and sustainable urban development is needed. This summer, Columbia GSAPP/China Lab researchers have been invited by the Jiading district government to work on a strategy report for the interaction of existing and future industrial sites with a new large-scale residential development.
This summer, six GSAPP students participated in a joint international workshop with China Lab, The Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese University Hong Kong. The twenty-student workshop focused its research on South Beijing, historically an underdeveloped region of the city that will soon be rapidly transformed into a densely-urbanized link with the city of Tianjin. By using South Beijing as a case study, the workshop proposed critical alternatives to the current trend of peri-urban expansion in China.
