YEARBOOK 2016 - 2017 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
The fourth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2016 - 2017. The yearbook exemplifies the new model for Chinese architectural education for which the department was commended by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It is thus also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students in taking first steps to successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
The fourth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2016 - 2017. The yearbook exemplifies the new model for Chinese architectural education for which the department was commended by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It is thus also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students in taking first steps to successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
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RE/ACTING:<br />
RETHINKING RECENT SUZHOU <strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
Many cities in China (Suzhou included) have undergone changes in urban form and construction at unprecedented speeds and magnitudes, creating<br />
cities in which urban environments have reached unforeseen scenarios and contrasts. The speed in which these changes are occurring occasionally<br />
appear excessively fast, to the point that citizens and public spaces cannot ‘hold together’ the city anymore. Can a city’s main urban characteristic<br />
be dissolved, changed or replaced to the point in which it becomes unrecognisable? What is the potential of architecture to adapt to social,<br />
economic and environmental changes not by being demolished and rebuilt, but by reacting and responding to those changes? This master thesis “RE/<br />
ACTING: Rethinking Recent Suzhou Architecture” addresses some of this questions by proposing design strategies aimed at interacting and reacting<br />
with some of the newest (and somehow failed) projects in Suzhou's Central Busines District.<br />
The first part of the thesis explores and analyses six malls located in CBD, and proposes initial conceptual transformations and architectural<br />
reactions to each one of them.<br />
<strong>2016</strong>-<strong>2017</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
The second part of the thesis develops an urban intervention in Suzhou's CBD by proposing 3 new axes which interact and transform the existing<br />
fabric. The thesis also develops a new version of Xinghai Square that depicts the way in which the proposed axes enact the idea of renovating and<br />
refurbishment of new, recently built architecture.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Alessandro Zuccolo<br />
Glen Wash<br />
SUPERVISORS<br />
Pierre-Alain Croset
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