Artworks

Study of New Villages

The cases of Study of New Villages include Shanghai Project (SHP) series and Xinjing New Villages. Shanghai Project is a research project began in the first half of 2014, which was a long-term plan cosponsored by four architects: Feng Lu, Zhang Bin, Zhuang Shen and Fan Wenbing, intending to discover and understand the architectural and urban issues we are facing in the contemporary era by research and rethinking on daily urban space in Shanghai. The case of Xinjing New Villages is studied by Atelier YeAS.
Workers’ New Village is a significant content of Shanghai urban spaces. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Shanghai became an important industrial city and solving the problem of housing for large groups of workers became an important mission of urban development. Workers’ New Villages, built in 1950s-1970s, is the specialization of the production and organization of social collectivism. With the change of Shanghai’s economy and society after the 90s, the original collective units were gradually disintegrated or moved. Meanwhile, Workers’ New Villages had been transferred from a kind of collective space to the common space and city community. The investigation and illustration of the spatial condition of the Workers’ New Villages has become a meaningful job, and the organic regeneration of the old city can provide valuable knowledge, thinking and documentation.

Participants

Wuyang Architecture, Atelier Z+, Atelier Archmixing, Department of Architecture of Shanghai Jiaotong University, YeArch Studio