Category: Picture Essays
Architectural Acupunctures in Songyang County, Lishui City, China (Part I)
Our essay, Adaptive Reuse of Peri-Urban Villages: Rural Revitalization in Xiananshan Village, Zhejiang, introduced the practice of adaptive reusing the entire old village in Lishui City, China. Do similar stories […]
Urban Redesign Studio 2018 Winter: URT Member Joined as Teaching Assistant
URT’s Siqi Li joined, as a teaching assistant, the Urban Redesign Studio 2018 Winter at the University of Tokyo. In view of the characteristics of disaster-prone areas in Japan, the […]
Urban Pendant: Public Space Defined by Light
2nd Prize Winner of 11th JIA Architecture Lighting Design CompetitionTheme: Pendant Jury: Nishizawa Ryue, Kazuyo Sejima, Kuroki Masao, Kaoru Mende, Akari Lisa Ishii Authors: Siqi Li, Xiaoting Chen (MVRDV) All […]
The Problem of “Spontaneity” in Qilou Verandah Space
Qilou (also known as the “shophouse”) is one of the unique vernacular architectural types in Southeast Asia and East Asia areas, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. In Qilou, […]
Exploring for a New Method for Mapping: Street Edges as In-Between Space
According to pedestrians‘ perspective, the street edge is the portion of the street interface that determines the attractiveness of the city at the eye level. Gehl defines the city’s edge […]
Urban Plugin: A Public Space Making and Sharing System
1st Prize Winner of Urban Public Space Design Competition 2017Theme: SHARING THE IN-BETWEENSJury: Takayuki Kishii, Ryue Nishizawa, Seiichi Saito, Junji TanigawaAuthor: Siqi Li, Xiaoting Chen (MVRDV) Although everything in China […]
Adaptive Reuse of Peri-Urban Villages: Rural Revitalization in Xiananshan Village, Zhejiang
Similarly to Japan, an awful lot of villages in China are facing severe problems of depopulation and decline. To tackle this problem, national and local governments, third-party organizations, and villagers […]
Investigating Place in the Age of Mobility: A Short Introduction
A few decades already passed since the recognition of the effects of globalization on the identity of territories. On the one hand, economics and politics rearrange cities and regions into […]