IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME

Re-imagining welfare in a Chinese neighborhood
Name
Dongping Sun
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Architecture
Institute
Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Program
Urbanism & Societal Change
Year
2022

This project originates from recalling the daily life of locals in my hometown Xinzheng and explores spatial solutions to expand the welfare system at a neighborhood scale in the context of Chinese demographic change. This prototype supports residents’ daily routines and develops dynamic family connections through a series of interventions and transformations into an existing neighborhood.

Lingxiucheng neighborhood, Xinzhen
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urban area of Xinzheng, from 2009 to 2020
public functions of Xinzheng, 2020
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sketch - urban public functions
sketch - reorganization
sketch - forms of new system
sketch - a daily scene of new system in neighborhood
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1:500, sketch models - new structures
1:200, sketch model - zoom-in site model
1:100, sketch model - birds' tower
1:200, ground floor plan of new system in the neighborhood
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1:100, section of transformation and intervention - entrance
1:100, section of intervention - green house
1:100, section of intervention - community house
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street view to the pedestrain entrance and neighborhood library
looking from the entrance into market area
garden view to green house
the courtyard view of community house

The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)