FROM  A  Lamp  To  A  City                          


Urban New Babylon City Renewal
Location: Chengdu City, Sichuan,  PRC Academic work: city complex design
PLANNING-SECTIONING

This project was informed by the study of Constant's New Babylon theory, investigating how an urbancomplex designed under the guidance of this theory could transform and impact the surrounding city and its users. The design process followed a top-down approach, starting from the city scale and progressingto the architectural components.

Constant's early vision emphasized the interconnected relationship between people and spatial materialityas well as the uncertainty inherent in daily life, by proposing a series of scenario-based spaces to link the functional elements of New Babylon.

In this project, the metaphorical urban axes serve as the "lines" that stitch together these scenario-based spaces. By designing such scenario-based spaces of varying scales along these distinct urban axes, anarrative-driven urban section was achieved. This approach aimed to influence the surrounding city while also allowing users to experience the uncertainty and anticipation embedded in the contextual story,ultimately manifesting an urban complex with the qualities of Constant's New Babylon.



Research & Design Strategy

Room Scale
Building Scale
City Scale
Planning Scale

Site Analysis & City Axis Design

Space Components

Component is the smalest unit that constitutes a space, including important structural or enclosure components as well as furniture. it is also the element that Constant finds most capable of evoking people’s instinctive release in the context of creating New Babylon. He believes that in a spatial context, component is the element that can immediately come into intimate contact with people, collect feedback. and create an atmosphere. Multiple Components then determine the atmospheric character of a Block. Through the combination, interaction,and superposition of Components, the atmosphere and functional attributes of Blocks and spatial domains are cultivated, thereby forming a unique interactive strategy that belongs to Constant. This design scheme utlizes five main Components, and Blocks are composed according to their spatial forms and functional properties.
Subsector Creation

The Components composed of Subsectors fully leverage the advantages of geometric combination, such as overlapping, Boolean operations, and cutting forms, in order to better arrange the architectural functions. Meanwhile, different Components can also lead to different properties of the Subsectors. These Subsectors can also break the original floor slabs, adding multi-functionality to the sectional spaces of the city, making the spaces better respond to their functions.
Subsectors Function

Fundamental Formula

Formula Combination

Tower Generation Logic



Project Book: https://issuu.com/wangsijie-9-3-3-1/docs/english_single_vision

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