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Dynamic City
The studio, Dynamic City, locates inside 798. It is organized by a couple from Netherlands, one of the main topics is “density”. A reception was organized today, for showing the thing they’ve done , as a possible model of future development of Beijing. The model, which is probably developed from one of Koolhaas’s city models (the architect admitted that he worked in OMA once), represents one of the possible cityscape in the year 2020. The architect raised the question of how Beijing should look like in 15 years time. A lot of people came to the reception party, not many of them are architects, yet they are interested in the issue.
The model shows one of the possible “solutions “for the high density in modern city. One of the speakers said that architects are more often than not trapped in the illusion of such “typical” high blocks, and have the preconception of this solution of high density problem. He argued that this image could be wrong and there should be other ways to solve the problem. For this matter, I think architects are usually underestimating the situation in Chinese cities. The problem is far beyond architecture, or even beyond planning. Urban planning in Beijing has always been a problem tangled with conservation, rehabilitation, and many other policies. Scholars have been studying for years yet haven’t been able to find a good solution. It is naïve to imagine how the city will be like, according to “building” or “planning”. Architects are impotent in deciding the cityscape.
Dynamic City
The studio, Dynamic City, locates inside 798. It is organized by a couple from Netherlands, one of the main topics is “density”. A reception was organized today, for showing the thing they’ve done , as a possible model of future development of Beijing. The model, which is probably developed from one of Koolhaas’s city models (the architect admitted that he worked in OMA once), represents one of the possible cityscape in the year 2020. The architect raised the question of how Beijing should look like in 15 years time. A lot of people came to the reception party, not many of them are architects, yet they are interested in the issue.
The model shows one of the possible “solutions “for the high density in modern city. One of the speakers said that architects are more often than not trapped in the illusion of such “typical” high blocks, and have the preconception of this solution of high density problem. He argued that this image could be wrong and there should be other ways to solve the problem. For this matter, I think architects are usually underestimating the situation in Chinese cities. The problem is far beyond architecture, or even beyond planning. Urban planning in Beijing has always been a problem tangled with conservation, rehabilitation, and many other policies. Scholars have been studying for years yet haven’t been able to find a good solution. It is naïve to imagine how the city will be like, according to “building” or “planning”. Architects are impotent in deciding the cityscape.