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http://www.themarker.com/tmc/article.jhtml?ElementId=skira20081031_1033086

On Friday February 29, 2008 we presented the “What can we learn from China?“-workshop at the Zezeze architecture gallery, located in the Tel Aviv port area.

 The presentation was divided into two parts: a presentation by Bert de Muynck on Chinese cities and a presentation by Dan Handel and Yonatan Cohen on the workshop and its results.

 We thank zezeze gallery and the general public who attended the event and made possible the first confrontation of the workshop products with a non-academic environment and with exterior critique.

What can we learn from China? City/State Workshop

On Thursday February 28, 2008 we concluded the “What can we learn from China?“-workshop. The final presentation consisted out of the presentation of the students’ research, design and projection of the Chinese condition on the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.

The final presentation concluded the workshop movingcities gave. We proposed a plan for the territory between Tel Aviv and Herzliya through specific types of intervention borrowed from the Chinese condition; Central Business District, Housing, Landscape Operations and Creative Clusters. The final plan is tailor-made for the Israeli context and challenges both existing plans and evolutions as well managed to propose different modes of public transport.

The final plan integrated on different levels the separate concepts students have been working on. During the last 24 hours of the workshop the students combined their cooperative efforts, made an incredible model and put forward a plan, presentation and design that went beyond ours and theirs initial expectation. Surely the workshop benefitted from a self-initiated Chinese speed of working, collaborating and decision making and is now open to the public. Soon we will update this project with some concluding analysis and remarks on both the process as the final plan.

Final Presentation

Central Business District | City/State Workshop

Housing | City/State Workshop

Landscape | City/State Workshop

Creative Clusters | City/State Workshop

Masterplan

What can we learn from China? City/State Workshop

students: Rena Malka Wasser, Tom Sperber, Eran Abramovitz, Yaniv Lenman, Ofer Bilik, Roy Carpman, Yaniv Turgeman, Ariel Noyman, Noa Joelson, Netta Gaash, Maayan Strauss & Lior Ayalon

City/State Workshop | Jerusalem, February 28, 2008

What can we learn from China? City/State Workshop

On Wednesday February 27, 2008 we concluded the second phase of the “What can we learn from China?“-workshop. The initial four groups of students were merged in two groups: Central Business District & Housing and Cultural and Creative Industries Clusters & Landscape Operations.

The workshop is organized along the “4-2-1″-structure with the conclusion of phase 2 of the workshop we achieved a major step in projecting and proposing a plan for the territory between Tel Aviv and Herzliya through specific types of intervention borrowed from the Chinese condition. In phase 1 the students concluded their research and speculate about how to contextualize these issues within the Israeli context. For phase 2 the merger had the objective for each group to take the strongest elements and discuss them with another group. We considered two group to deal with the design, organization and lay-out of “objects” of intervention in the area, the CBD-group and Creative Clusters-group. As for the Housing and Landscape-Group they were asked to provide the generic background, a tapestry of intervention on the area. For phase 2 it was the goal to present a model that was both incorporates their Chinese findings as well as to present a plan for the area that is flexible and specific. The Groups also decided to adopt 4 of the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the FUWA’s as their logos; we are sorry for the one, as the original FUWA’s are with 5, that missed the boat. In this context we call them the Friendly Urbane & Worldwide Architects.

FUWA-adaptation | City/State Workshop

At this stage of the workshop it was mandatory for each new group to incorporate the existing infrastructure, adding infrastructure, like junctions, were necessary and increase the accessibility to initial proposal by the Landscape group. In terms of public transport for the area we took the existing plans for the implementation of a light rail system in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area seriously, while investigating the possibility to add an additional line to it that would bring the Central Business District into a wider mobility network.

How to integrate the Creative Clusters with the Landscape Operations? How to create a mix, how to define the borders between Housing and Central Business District? Through these cooperative efforts, reality-check and back and forward discussion and design sessions between the different groups we achieved, at Chinese speed, conclusions that surpassed and transformed the result of phase 1 critically and realistically.

City/State Workshop

A short overview of the work each group presented as conclusion of Phase II

Central Business District & Housing

Housing Group | City/State Workshop

CBD Group | City/State Workshop

students: Yaniv Turgeman, Ariel Noyman, Noa Joelson, Netta Gaash, Maayan Strauss & Lior Ayalon

Cultural and Creative Industries Clusters & Landscape Operations

Creative Clusters & Landscape Group | City/State Workshop

students: Rena Malka Wasser, Tom Sperber, Eran Abramovitz, Yaniv Lenman, Ofer Bilik & Roy Carpman

NRG site has published an article by Oded Ben Yehuda covering the workshop and event.
see it here

The Chinese culture has an ancient tradition of attitude towards landscape development. The traditional ‘Chinese garden’ is designed to create a ‘nature like’ experience inside the built environment, and to enable a ‘channel’ between man and nature in one’s everyday life.
China is undergoing a wide-scale modernization and urbanization process these days. The Chinese cities are growing and spreading in a dizzying pace.

In the first phase of the work-shop, we were trying to figure out “What can be learned from China”. We observed some traditionally built gardens and parks, some located inside modern cities, and tried to understand the designing principles and the type of experience they were trying to create. Later, we observed at the modern Chinese city, tried to understand the attitude of the Chinese towards the landscape development in the context of the urban growth processes.
We’ve noticed that there is a certain gap in the cultural and design traditional landscape development, and the modern state of mind, which is mostly influenced by western approaches. We’ve noticed that the landscape development in the Chinese city is working in various scales, from small to extra large, and tried to understand whether there is a constant regularity in the division of built/un-built between the deferent scales. In addition, we explored Chinese contemporary landscape projects and seeked for a modern Chinese approach.

These attempts led us to develop a ‘tool’, incapable of a couple of basic ‘actions’, based on our understandings about the way of action typical to the Chinese in the modern cities:

1. ‘Caged Spaces’ – Built/Un-built. Works in the deferent scales. In smaller scales contributes to the sense of community.
2. ‘Maximum Contact’ – enlarging the area of contact between built/un-built. Referring mostly to the boundaries between the city and the nature outside of it.
3. ‘Fractal Growth’ – a hierarchy of built/un-built spaces, maintaining it’s ratio in deferent scales.
4. Dealing with boundaries – Using elements like roads and rivers for the purpose of defining borders between areas.
5. Preservation of local scenarios – working with local crops as the vegetation of a park.
6. ‘Theme’ and ‘Branding’ – The Chinese tend to ‘brand’ things and have an affection to ‘Theme Projects’ of the kind that is possible to represent by a clear ‘Logo’.

Using these basic categorical actions we intend to make a landscape intervention in the Israeli situation, in the area of Tel-Aviv Hertzelya.

Team: Yaniv Lenman, Ofer Bilik, Roy Carpman

Related Links:
http://www.unep.org/sport_env/Activities/beijingConf07/media/ Unep – The Beijing Report 2007
http://whc.unesco.org/ UNESCO World Heritage Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_garden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Sun
http://www.newsgd.com/

Group Presentation:

The Creative Industries are a concept that fosters creativity into a profitable industry in which innovative people, such as artists, designers, researchers and scientists are recognized as having economic potential.
China
In China, the government implements this agenda in top-down projects, by clustering workplace, cultural programs and other activities into zones inside major cities. As a result, China is promoting creative hubs, turning Chinese made products, into Chinese designed products. Examples of these creative centers are found in the form of art zones, such as 798 and the Gaubeidien project in Beijing, research and software parks, such as the Zhoungguancun area and media centers, such as in Huairou. China actively capitalizes on the creative industries while enabling the government to keep a watchful eye on the innovated population.

Analysis: Chinese Typologies
An initial analysis of the Chinese creative industries results in the following conclusions:

• Campus / Park typologies, with scattered buildings surrounding green open public spaces,
• Reusing of existing industrial buildings.
• Size- projects vary in size from 40,000 sqm to 800,000 sqm.
• Situated on urban infrastructure, and usually located on major highways, and adjacent a train or subway stations,
• Initial bases Also, many of these development projects are chosen to be located where there is already an, such as the spaces already inhabitant with artists, and artists studios.

Narrowing it to three sites
These sites will hold three different creative hubs. Considering their specific location and the Israeli creative potential in them these hubs are:

1. A film and media center on the Glilot Gas and Oil compound;
2. A design zone south of the Herzelia Marina;
3. Science and research park combined with the Reading power plant on the western edge of HaYarkon Park.

Related Links:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332904.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/03/content_311221.htm
http://ics.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/271
http://www.sohochina.com/en/about/index.asp SOHO China
http://www.asia-planet.net/china/splendid-china-shenzhen.htm OCT Shenzhen
http://www.798space.com/index_en.asp 798 District
http://www.artgbd.com/news.asp?id=21 GBD Beijing

Oficial Quotes:
http://www.creativeindustriesobservatory.com/news/?a=story&section=1&newsID=2
http://www.china.org.cn/english/business/231484.htm
http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/11232/china-eyes-creative-industries-ip-push.html
http://www.us.design-reuse.com/exit/?url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948401.htm

Group Presentation:

What can we learn from China? /Housing

Points of departure:

• Future population growth in Israel
• Densities (Israel-China)
• Urban fabric typologies
• Self-contained urban units
• Built-open spaces relations within the central region of Israel

After the study of population and the Israeli population growth rate, we reached the growth estimation of 1.5 million people in the year 2020. Trying to maintain a reasonable population spread, the exercise is examining the option of inserting the whole growth in to the central region of Israel. In order to understand the structure of the future urban housing fabric and its high densities, we examined the Chinese case. The density required is confronting us with some questions that the Israeli case can not yet answer. Thinking in Chinese terms can suggest an interesting and maybe a better notion of the Israeli future development.

Housing in urban China can be divided in to three main typologies: the traditional Hutongs, very dense low rise units, high rise housing buildings and the medium rise (up to 6 stories) blocks. By studying the different housing types that assemble the Chinese city, we can come to articulate a tool kit for planning a future Israeli urban development..

Related Links:
http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/student/renewal/chapter1/
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_country_prof_results.asp?crID=156&cpID=21 The U.N statistics
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/pop.html
http://www.china.org.cn/e-15/15-3-o/15-3-o-8.htm The five year plan – China Gov

Group Presentation: