mengyi-fan:

after the street…

studio exercise #2 drawings

Past Future Cities

(Source: danielatanzj)

mengyi-fan:

master plan exercise - how can we think of the street as an integration with and not a seperation from the built space?

(1) street integrated building
(2) building as street
(3) express system with interchange
(4) local system with interchange
(5) original massing
(6) 40% open space
(7) underground system with street level connections

Experiments in the Grid

(Source: marklueke)

Spacesuit Motion

Masterplanning

(Source: shuningzhao)

(Source: andrewgargus)

Experimenting with the Grid

By far New York has the highest ridership of public transportation among US cities. A significant percentage of people take the subway, bus, or commuter rail daily. Combined with the options of traveling by foot, bike, or taxi, New York stands as the country’s premier model of urban multi-modal transit. Given the great number of people who travel by these means it would seem that the private automobile is not entirely needed. But be that as it may, the automobile is the main means of transportation. 

[“Commissioner’s Plan for Development of Manhattan,” 1811]

Though we often don’t consider it to be the case, the car is king in NYC. Accepting our four-wheel friend as a prerequisite, the studio will develop new architectural typologies by imagining a different presence for the car.

[“Hochhausstadt,” Ludwig Hilberseimer, 1924]

If the contemporary city up until now has been designed to the car’s specifications of movement, then we will develop new concepts of urban motion that influence the design of the car.

(Source: blog.experimentsinmotion.com)