Line 13 redux | Review

On June 19, 2009, MovingCities was invited by Shannon Bassett to review the work produced by five of her students from the School of Architecture and Community Design, University of South Florida in Tampa, at the crossboundaries studio in Beijing. Three and half weeks ahead of our ‘Line 13 redux‘ workshop, we gathered with Professor Ann Bergren (B.A.S.E. / UCLA), Juliane Demel (CAUPD) and Michelle Lin (FRAME magazine China), to give the students a critic review of their work produced so far.

The five students were organized in 3 groups:

  1. Stephanie Herring (Design 3) + Brennen Huller (Independent Design);
  2. Maryam Younes (Design C) + Chablis Applewhite (Design C);
  3. Carlos Gil (Design Thesis).

The first two teams made preliminary design proposals on the Line 13 crossing of Longze subway-station over the Badaling expressway (as a continuation of the case study proposed by ‘Line 13 Redux’ workshop), and the later had the possibility of shifting focus and choose a new site for his 1st semester thesis analysis, entitled ‘Urban-Eco-Filter: Introducing New Lungs to the City’ (emphasis at Beijing’s CBD main vehicular crossing).

    Last minute preparations at crossboundaries studio | Beijing, June 19 2009
    Last minute preparations at crossboundaries studio | Beijing, June 19 2009

    Shannon Bassett introduces the students, reviewers and the program
    Shannon Bassett introduces the students, reviewers and the program
    Juliane Demel (CAUPD) & Ann Bergren (B.A.S.E./UCLA) | invited reviewers
    Juliane Demel (CAUPD) & Ann Bergren (B.A.S.E./UCLA) | invited reviewers
    Bert de Muynck (MovingCities) & LIN Yang 林杨 (FRAME magazine China) | invited reviewers
    Bert de Muynck (MovingCities) & LIN Yang 林杨 (FRAME magazine China) | invited reviewers

    Stephanie Herring & Brennen Huller (group1) presented their proposal | Line 13 Redux workshop
    Stephanie Herring & Brennen Huller (group1) presented their proposal | Line 13 Redux workshop

    Maryam Younes & Chablis Applewhite (group 2) presented their proposal | Line 13 Redux
    Maryam Younes & Chablis Applewhite (group 2) presented their proposal | Line 13 Redux

    Carlos Gil (thesis student) presented his research/analysis: 'Urban-Eco-Filter' (Beijing CBD)
    Carlos Gil (thesis student) presented his research/analysis: 'Urban-Eco-Filter' (Beijing CBD)

    Pictures by movingcities.org

  • Line 13 redux
  • Line 13 redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 1): Beiyuan-Lishuiqiao
  • Line 13 redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 2): Longze
  • Line 13 redux | Studio
  • Line 13 redux | Review
  • Line 13 redux | Students’ work-in-progress

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spatial agency:
Established in 2007 by Bert de Muynck and Mónica Carriço, movingcities is a think tank based in Beijing Shanghai whose work focuses on how the practices of architecture and urbanism affect the city.

Their name is a reaction to the influential 'Shrinking Cities' project, which they critiqued for an over emphasis on just one part of a larger phenomenon. In contrast they see contemporary urbanity as being in constant flux and speak of city-regions that incorporate shrinking and expanding, rural and urban.

Their work takes the form of projects, writings and collaborations as well as interviews. (...)

Their projects take the form of embedded research on the city, usually carried out in collaboration with other architects."

creative cities:
Mov­ing­Cit­ies is an inde­pend­ent research organ­iz­a­tion based in China

archiblog:
MovingCities is a blog investigating the role that architecture and urbanism play in shaping the contemporary city. MovingCities features urban research, critical architectural investigations and publications. MovingCities operates from Beijing Shanghai, China.

snowball architecture:
Bert de Muynck is the other half of MovingCities, a Shanghai based duo of “shrinks in the urban debate” as him and his partner Mónica Carriço like to describe their practice. MovingCities are also the curators of Snowball Shanghai – Event on Finnish Architecture to be organised in Shanghai this March.