Graduate School of Design / Harvard University + School of Architecture / South China University of Technology
Joint Research Program
Field trip and workshop in Guangzhou, China
Graduate School of Design / Harvard + School of Architecture / South China University of Technology joint academic semester
Field trip and workshop in Guangzhou, China
Our plot lies on the boundary between YangJiang city and its surrounding landscape, in a new residential and leisure area currently under development. The task is to give the city a new park, linking the lake and nearby nature to the city, and a brand new five-star hotel.
Masterplannig for an ideal sustainable city in the wetland near the Yangzhe river.
The 2012 teaching at S.C.U.T. (Guangzhou) has come to an end. The students, at their last academic year, faced the the tall building design theme.
RBA presents the floral park dedicated to Matteo Ricci, within the masterplan for a residential development. The project brings together the geometries of the Italian garden with concave and enveloping spaces of the Chinese gardens.
It might sounds banal: a kindergarden suppose to be designed for its young and small inhabitants. Often, instead, the architectural design won’t focus on this issue….to draw Mickey Mouse or Dumbo on the walls, for us, seems not enough…..
The star-like buildings set their structural crown of pillars and beams along the external facades transforming the long-established skyscrapers curtain wall into a regularly grilled concrete fronts. Cooperation with S.C.U.T. / Design Institute / Ni Yang
The Pearl River Delta is the biological infrastructure of the largest conurbation in the world. The fast and relentless changes of this territory leave no room for immediate reaction and require medium and long term strategic visions. The cities facing the delta are rapidly changing their roles, setting up new alliances and balances of power and destabilizing others.
The land for the project is intended to receive the new Civic Center in Dongguang has a slightly trapezoidal shape, around which are located residential areas, although the general character of the surrounding urban environment remains unclear.