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Architecture Amidst Smog, Hui Sheng
Architecture Amidst Smog, Hui Sheng
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis is an investigation on smog and architecture.
Urban Archtifice: Regenerating Residential Facades Through Acupuncture, Ran Mei
Urban Archtifice: Regenerating Residential Facades Through Acupuncture, Ran Mei
Architecture Thesis Prep
To legitimize and make use of weirdness in the Chinese cultural fascination of symbolism and objectified architecture, I decide to put it in the most function-oriented program in the city _ collective housing, or more specifically, the transformation and regeneration of existing housing types in Chinese megacities. To inject iconicity into the most banal and repetitive structures of Chinese cities, the residential high-rises, I aim to create a human layer that parasites the faceless facades of housing blocks; to take advantage of the novelty value of collectively generated iconicity to legitimize the personal appropriation of “public” space; to bring back …