PRODUCT LIBRARY
remaining open to the elements, the project has been conceived as an expansive landscape that changes with the seasons and the weather.
the two-story residence is complete with a large outdoor terrace.
the staircase comprises 630 pieces, which were assembled and glued on site, piece by piece.
the bridge was 70 meters in length with the two 20-meter-high towers linked by a passageway platform.
connections: +300
\”check the L-shaped structure that carefully wraps around the historic neighborhood.\”
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thanks for taking the time to write a critique about our project.
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http://pinkcloud.dk/work/05/flipcity-shanghai
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\”This heritage has come under threat by the recent development in which the densely knitted network of neighbourhoods are replaced by monofunctional vertical units.\”
– these monofunctional vertical units as well as the gated community development are two things the proposal strongly criticizes. The new typology tries to maximize interests like density and being close to the center as well as maximizing green areas with diverse neighbourhoods. these new neighbourhoods will be a 3 dimensional densely knitted network.
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\”(…) the network of longtang and shikumen houses which pinkcloud want to destroy is unique in the world.\”
– none of the sites for the new typology is a longtan or shikumen housing area. instead these are conserved and strengthened – check the L-shaped structure that carefully wraps around the historic neighborhood. The sites we chose are all backsides of and urban voids or sites with developer highrise projects from the 90s.
i disagree
totally agree..living aswll here…..
I agree with Arnd.
First I was just about tho write something like \”this is stupid\” but I feel I have to elaborate a bit more to justify my strong criticism:
The people who did this should come here to Shanghai rather than making absurd out of context, realism and mind proposals. In this case Shanghai is just a photo backdrop for their rendering collages.
For me, living in and loving Shanghai, calling it a second home now, this is an insult to the city itself. If they would know or understand this city they would realize it\’s not a tabula rasa as they wish but a grown city with a history that makes it unique in its blend of European influenced high quality urban and public space with Chinese typologies of living. This heritage has come under threat by the recent development in which the densely knitted network of neighbourhoods are replaced by monofunctional vertical units.
Their \”expanding shanghai along the vertical plane\” sounds very hip but is yesterday’s news to people here.
“footprints of the existing urban landscape that are currenly only visible by plane are reorganized to become the new face of the upright community” – these footprints are actually very well visible to pedestrians and the network of longtang and shikumen houses which pinkcloud want to destroy is unique in the world.
Saying \”the heritage of shanghai is preserved by reinterpreting its historical urban framework\” sounds cool but remains empty. This proposal disregards the existing urban framework in the most horrible way possible. Within 20 years, 1.7 Million people have been relocated and their houses torn down to make way for highrises and shopping malls, but probably even few of those projects are as destructive to the grown urban space as flip/city.
I know each of the neighbourhoods in the proposed sites very well for years now and the way this proposal abuses Shanghai as a cheap flashy effect enhancer grosses me out. It’s like a cheap dish with too much MSG to cover the flat taste and bad ingredients used. For an abstract utopian play with ideas it doesn\’t provide anything new so I\’m asking myself why they did it in the first place.
Please pinkcloud, next time when you want to do some Photoshop blinbling go do it somewhere else and please spend more than fifteen minutes on it.
Hallo Omma!