Workshop

This entry consists of some casual workshop by the author. Most of the workshop was related to the field of urban design and development.Overall this entry could be categorized into photography and sketches.

View to the Luohu CBD from a tower in Huaqiangbei district in Shenzhen, photographed by Xiaofeng Liu, 2014.

Shenzhen Futian CBD, photographed by Xiaofeng Liu, 2014

draft for Khayelitsha town centre in Cape town ,by Xiaofeng Liu, 2014

draft for the East city precinct on the fringe of Cape Town CBD, by Xiaofeng Liu 2014

Practice on drawing a hotel room master plan. The selected hotel is the hotel im wassertum

International Studio:East City precinct in Cape Town.

During the whole November in 2014, the MUDD studio conducted an international study trip to the Cape Town in South Africa.

Our group was assigned to design a possible scheme for the East City precinct on the fringe of Cape Town CBD. The big context was illustrated as followings:

The precinct was on the fringe of the CBD and the proximity of the site to both CBD and Suburban area make the site become gateway.

Considering the increasing demands of parking bays in CBD area, the group is going to consider that the catalyst of the development should involve the mitigation of supply of parking area in CBD. Therefore, the catalyst of this development was a comprehensive car parking building in the central of the precinct, which also consisted of a well-infrastructure public space on the rooftop and an office tower as the landmark in this area.The vision we created for the site was a residential community with several mix use function such as retails and appropriate public space.

The proposed isometric is about to create a residential community with several mix use function such as office, retails, and well-infrastructure public area on the rooftop of parking building.

This series of diagram show the designing structure of the catalyst car parking building, the periphery of the ground floor was retails interacting to the street.

The proposed vision for the well-infrastructure public area on the rooftop should be like the following diagram, in which people should still have a clear view corridor to the great table mountain.

The proposed vision for the rooftop public space.

Finally, a brief feasibility analysis is also conducted for the development. The following chart demonstrates the built cost of the development, and demonstrates the possible rent and selling price as well.

Most of the price was consulted from the local real estate website in the past few months.

Plan City Precincts :Dalian

For the requirement of the MUDD program, Li Tang and I conducted a brief studies on the city Dalian in China.

Dalian, on the northeast coast of China, is the major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning Province. Currently the city has around 6,700,000 population and has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate which implies the humid summers and windy, dry winter. From the end of 19th century to 1949, Dalian was developed as a port by foreign powers, first Russia then Japan. In 1899, influenced by the ‘Garden City’ and ‘City Beautiful’ movements, a Russian engineer V.V. Sakharov was selected to implement plans for Dalian as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, transforming a scattered pattern of Chinese fishing villages into a port city, which was intended to compete with Shanghai.

This image briefly illustrates the structure of the city function in Dalian’s urban district.

The historic centre of Dalian, designed by V.V. Sakharov, has a strong radial pattern, which establishes a series of focal points but divides the urban fabric into irregularly shaped blocks, affecting in turn the building types on these blocks. To study the outcomes resulting from the radial pattern, we mapped and analysed the range of building types across 80 typical blocks of the colonial city, then calculated their area to come up with an average size of the blocks.

Designed by V.V. Sakharov, the central plaza in the city centre has a strong radial pattern.

80 blocks along one of the central business street were selected, and their shapes, sizes were arranged and categorized.

The average size of one block from 80 selected blocks could be 0.92 hectare.

Besides,we are also required to finish a draft scheme for a selected waterfront area, where was opposite the existing CBD over the bay, and the precinct was marked as the “former industrial use” in the first diagram of this blog.The big context of the precinct was showed as the following diagram.

The precinct was surrounded by large underdeveloped area, and was relatively closed to the proposed metro station in the future. Currently a completed residential community was located to the west of the site.

To design a scheme for a waterfront area in Dalian, briefly, we consider the following factors, which might guide our design direction.

We tried to merged these thinking to the scheme, and finally we got a master plan (which was 1-5000) like this.

the master plan briefly merged the idea about what function a waterfront development might have, in the scale of 1:5000

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