Mega 2 Meta

• The Megablock Project: Charrette and Summer Workshop design strategies comparison

While the weekend charrette, 'Mixing Up the Megablock', rapidly addressed design problems at the scale of the generic housing superblock, the Summer Workshop's 'Megablock to Metablock' project constructed a systems-based approach to retrofitting, re-integrating, and sharing resources between fragments of Beijing's city fabric.

极大城区项目:快速设计比赛及夏季设计工作坊的策略比较

"激动极大城区"的快速设计比赛﹐在短短的一个周末里说明了普适大型街区在比例上的设计问题。而在"夏季工作坊"的"从极大城区到米塔城区"的项目中﹐它以系统设计为基础﹐尝试改造及从新结合北京城市七零八落的机理﹐及共享其中的资源。

Columbia University GSAPP China Lab
2008 Beijing Workshop
Participants: Cressica Brazier, Xu Chen, Egbert Chu, Caren Faye, Steve Garcia, Chris Gee, Danny Kidd, Sharon Kim, Tat Lam, Debbie Lin, Deborah Richards, and Jeff White

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Meta-Block is a de-monumentalization of the mega-scale infrastructure of Beijing. By linking multiple levels and ecological systems, it is an organic, holistic logic that complements the ring roads and towers-in-the-private-park. And it is a balancing act between Big and Small: it does not negate the value of the pragmatic large-scale framework, but rather recalls the historical value of Chinese architecture as a mediator between the larger cosmos and smaller habitats.

Mega-block development, in its current trajectory, is unsustainable in all aspects of the word: socially, environmentally, economically,and as a part of the built environment. The transformation into Meta-Blocks reinserts sustainable strategies into the existing city structure: Meta-plane (multi-level and cross-block connectivity and access to open spaces), Meta-transport (reprioritizing pedestrian and bike circulation above the massive vehicular grid), Meta-ecology (localized interaction between inhabitants and constructed nature), Meta-infrastructure (upgrading local telecommunications, water filtration, energy, waste revitalization), and Meta-economy (linking more diverse demographics, including the insertion of low-income housing, to new infrastructure).

CALL TO ACTION

Are you waiting for the next big thing? Are you tired of waiting for the next slum to be evacuated, the next work unit compound to be privatized, your next gated community condo to lose its luster?

Wait no longer; the Meta-Block has arrived.

This is not your typical superblock, and you are not a typical real estate investor. Real estate development has finally gone multi-dimensional: not only can you enjoy the benefits of vertically layered development, but you can also see new returns as the meta-block develops over time.

Based on intensive research into the hyperdevelopment of urban systems, a new real estate product, the Meta-plane, addresses unsustainable problems—demographic, environmental, and economic—of the overused gated community model that has made your city feel like every other city.

Take your real estate investment dollars, and your vision of China's urban future, to the next level, with the Meta-Block. Visit www.china-lab.org to learn how to become part of the Meta-Block future.

米塔城区
2008年哥伦比亚大学建筑研究院中国实验室北京工作坊

项目介绍
您在等待下一个庞然大物吗?

您还在等待下一个平民区被拆除﹐下一个单位大院被私有化﹐或下一个小区失去它的光彩吗?

不用等了﹐米塔城区来了。

这个不是一个普通的小区﹐而您也不是一个普通开发商。地产发展终于迈向三维化。而您不止可以享受纵向多层面的发展模式﹐还可以展望更多的回报机会。

在我们不断对城市系统的迅速发展的研究下﹐我们完成了一个新的地产产品﹐"米塔平面"。它解决了中国小型社区千般一律的发展模式﹐及在人口分布﹑环境及经济层面产生的不可持续性问题。

善用您的开发资金﹐结合您对中国未来城市发展的独到眼光﹐考虑我们的"美塔城区"方案。请浏览我们的网页www.china-lab.org﹐成为未来中国'米塔城市'发展的一部分。

IMAGES

1. META-LIVING [metaplane_1.tif] Entry:153
米塔生活:为了生活的生活

2. ABOVE THE REST [metaplane_2.tif] Entry:152
在一切之上

3. INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT [metaplane_3.tif] Entry:151
综合性的发展模式

4. SUSTAIN YOURSELF [metaplane_4.tif] Entry:150
自给自足的社会生态

5. META-SYSTEMS [diagram.tif] Entry:149
米塔系统:系统中的系统
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