PROGRAM/DESCRIPTION:
4 Month Study Abroad Program
Easily assembled, transportable, reconfigurable, modular, “Pedestrian Circulation Generators”
OBJECTIVE:
Redevelopment of suburban and rural locations into density populated areas is occurring at an unprecedented speed in Shanghai. The haste of redevelopment allows only the final condition of an area to be conceived. No time is spent considering the living conditions of inhabitants while the area is being constructed. The UNPLANNED PERIPHERY is not a specific location or space, but a TIME PERIOD during the REDEVELOPMENT PHASE. The lack of infrastructure during this period makes pedestrian activity impossible. It is understood that the UNPLANNED PERIPHERY is not a constant in a specific location, it will slowly disappear from one location and move to the next area being redevelopment.
Currently, shops cannot be frequented, sidewalks aren’t used, and no social interactions occur outside of ones home. Observations of spaces that successfully create pedestrian activity have born a system of easily constructible, transportable, and reconfigurable, modular programmatic Pedestrian Circulation Generators (PCG’s) to enliven this time period, then move to the next. Space afforded by expanses of empty streets will be infilled with PCG’s that connect defined destinations, establishing pedestrian activity not only to the sidewalk, but to the adjacent customer deprived shops.
EXISTING CONDITIONS
STREET MARKET - COMMERCIAL
FARMERS MARKET
BRIDGING OVER STREET
REST STOP
