Wrapping-up City
M Arch Semester Studio Project
University of Pennsylvania
Tags: Design Research, Data Visualization, Physical Fabrication, Energy Simulation
M Arch Semester Studio Project
University of Pennsylvania
Tags: Design Research, Data Visualization, Physical Fabrication, Energy Simulation
Wynwood is a district located in the city of Miami. The district used to be a garment district with a number of apparel manufacturing firms. With the economic decline, the area was one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the poorest cities in the country by the time of 1980. Both poverty rate and unemployment rate are high in the district. Nowadays, with a variety of “cultural policies”, the district has attracted a lot of young artists and entrepreneurs.
︎︎︎ Miami Book
︎︎︎ Miami Book
︎︎︎ Cruise Book
One of the most obvious sign of renovation and gentrifying of the district would be the decaying industrial warehouses being wrapped in graffiti murals. However, there are still a bunch of problems in the district awaiting for solution since we can often see the fragmented and isolated urban fabric here and there, one block houses crumbling, the next on a newly built art gallery fortified by steel walls and security cameras. Other issues are polarization, marginalization, stigmatization, segregation, dispersion and homogenization. In order to respond to those issues, the project is intended to bring in more density, participation, exhibition, diversity, collectivity and self-sufficiency into the neighbourhood.
With the experience from the cruiseship trip and the study of the cruisehip design, the idea of wrapping up everything inside one volume as a to-go package, where users can have their own celebration and sufficiency inside of it came into shape.
The whole volume is elevated with a minimized footprint so as to enable itself to be a flexible insertion to the existing urban grid. By lifting up the whole volume, the public traffic is introduced into the center of the volume which is wrapped up by four huge screens. Those four screens sit on huge outdoor platforms and work as screenplays for the hustle bustle city life where it is reflected and mirrored. The four entrances on each side is signatured by four distinct volumes.
The gestures of the volumes not only serve as signs of the orientation but also they house different public programs and public circulation. The extension of the volumes transforms into the infrastructural connection with local system. There is a round-about inside the volume for the vehicles to pass through the volume without necessarily stopping by. The extension infrastructural structure also serve as semi-outdoor parking space which could help to release the ground parking pressure.
The whole volume is elevated with a minimized footprint so as to enable itself to be a flexible insertion to the existing urban grid. By lifting up the whole volume, the public traffic is introduced into the center of the volume which is wrapped up by four huge screens. Those four screens sit on huge outdoor platforms and work as screenplays for the hustle bustle city life where it is reflected and mirrored. The four entrances on each side is signatured by four distinct volumes.
The gestures of the volumes not only serve as signs of the orientation but also they house different public programs and public circulation. The extension of the volumes transforms into the infrastructural connection with local system. There is a round-about inside the volume for the vehicles to pass through the volume without necessarily stopping by. The extension infrastructural structure also serve as semi-outdoor parking space which could help to release the ground parking pressure.
