Workshop at TU Delft

On April 5, Go West participated in a workshop at TU Delft, chair Design as Politics, headed by prof. Wouter Vanstiphout. Goal of the workshop was to explore the backgrounds of the newtowns of Almere and Shenzhen, both 30 years of age, both in a river delta, both positioned next to a world city.

To be continued…

Workshop at Design Academy Eindhoven

On April 6, Go West did a lecture and workshop for master students at Design Academy Eindhoven. The workshop was aimed at finding new solutions for the use of urban villages and the programming of historic structures  in Chinese cities. Students finished the workshop with a 5 minute presentation with ideas varying from urban villages on the roofs of skyscrapers to one single preserved building functioning as a monument.

(images courtesy of DAE students)

Go West organizes workshop in Xi’an University of Architecture

Today, we did a presentation for students of the Xian University of Architecture. We were invited by professor Xiao Li – who we also interviewed last Sunday – to tell something about our project. We decided to do it different, and ask the students to give their vision on residential design in China – our subject of research in Xi’an.

First, we gave a brief introduction on our work, and our analysis of the current status quo of residential design: gated compounds with high rises, oriented north/south, with a private garden within the boundaries of the gate. We asked the students to come up with alternative concepts. The challenge for them was to do the fastest urban design in history: develop a concept for a compound of 400×500 m., with a FAR of 3,0 and to present the results within 30 minutes. And they succeeded. See below some impressions of the concepts they came up with.

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