Line 13 Redux | workshop area: Longze station, Badaling expressway and its surroundings

On June 19, three and a half weeks after MovingCities kickstarted research and design for Beijing’s short and intense two-day Line13 Redux-workshop, the students of the School of Architecture and Community Design (University of South Florida, Tampa) presented their first analysis and design proposals. An overview.

Line 13 Redux | by Stephanie Herring & Brennen Huller

Line 13 Redux | by Maryam Younes & Chablis Applewhite

After the Line13 Redux Fieldtrip and one and a half day show-us-the-instant-analysis workshop studio, the students participating in the USF ‘Summer Studio in China‘ continued throughout the past weeks further investigation. Under the guidance of Assistant Professor Shannon Bassett they developed site analysis, concepts and were asked to define their program of intervention. The “review” of June 19 was intended to discuss the first results produced so far.

Line13 Redux Workshop Review | June 19, 2009

Invitees included Professor Ann Bergren (B.A.S.E. / UCLA), Juliane Demel (CAUPD), Michelle Lin (FRAME magazine China) and Mónica Carriço+Bert de Muynck (MovingCities). For a full textual and visual overview of the Line13 Redux-workshop so far, check the below links. We’ll keep you in the Line13-loop about further developments.

Line 13 Redux | workshop pages

• Line13 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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Line13 Redux | review & student works

Beijing Line 13 | Northern Section

Line 13 Redux workshop | Beijing, May 25-26, 2009

On May 25 and 26, 2009, MovingCities was invited by Shannon Bassett, Assistant Professor at School of Architecture and Community Design | University of South Florida, Tampa, to give a short design workshop. After dealing in last years’ ‘Line13 Superlinearity‘-workshop with the Northern section of Beijing’s elevated subway line, ‘Line13 Redux‘ focussed on the intersection of the Badaling Expressway and Line13 as the locale for research and intervention.

Line 13 Redux fieldtrip | Beijing, May 25, 2009

On Monday May 25, Line13 Redux kicked off with a fieldtrip on Line13. Departing from the Dongzhimen subway station we moved to the first stop on the Northern section of this subway line, the Beiyuan subway station. From here we walked along dusty roads, large construction sites and a large canal to the Lishuiqiao subway station. Half a year after our previous walk in this area – see ‘Looping Line13‘ (December 2008) – it wasn’t difficult to understand in which direction this area is currently developing: it seems that in-between the Beiyuan and Lishuiqiao subway station one of Beijing’s largest residential housing development is currently under construction.

For an extensive documentation of the present state of this area, check the images on Line13 Redux | Fieldtrip (Beiyuan-Lishuiqiao).

Line 13 Superlinearity fieldtrip | Beijing, May 27, 2008

Throughout the past years MovingCities developed a couple of self-initiated investigations around Beijing’s Line13 and has been fortunate to develop some of its findings further by giving the aforementioned workshops. Our interest can be summed up as follows:

Line13 is the mobility spine that makes Beijing move. It is an elevated subway line cutting through large parts of the modern city. With Beijing’s attempts to spread its urban growth into a polycentric model, Line13 re-organizes this ambition; connecting nodes of polycentric development. Surrounding the line are zones where economical, sociological and cultural tensions co-exist.

Street market panorama (source: Carlos Gil/USF - click to enlarge)

From Lishuiqiao we took Line13 to the most Western stop on the Northern section, Longze subway station. Here the subway line intersects with the Badaling Expressway, a 70 kilometer highway connecting Beijing with the Great Wall. Since its construction in 1996 (finished in 2001), the Badaling Expressway has acted as an important attractor for urban development in the North-Western part of Beijing. Around the Longze subway station, where the expressway meets the subway line, four distinct and programmatically autonomous areas can be discerned; a semi-legal and self-built migrant village, an area called ‘car city’, a low-rise residential area and a high-rise upscale residential area.

For an extensive documentation of the present state of this area, check the images on Line13 Redux | Fieldtrip (Longze).

Line 13 Redux fieldtrip | Beijing, May 25, 2009

In the afternoon we headed to the Crossboundaries studio where the workshop took off. In an upcoming post we will provide background and the outcome of this short and intense Line13 Redux-workshop. Stay tuned.

For now, have a look at our project pages:

• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Program
• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 1): Beiyuan-Lishuiqiao
• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 2): Longze
• Line 13 Redux | Studio

Pictures by movingcities.org

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Line13 Redux | workshop field trip

[bracket] | [architecture, landscape, urbanism, environment, digital culture]

The outcome of the ‘LINE 13 SUPERLINEARITY‘ workshop, in collaboration with Adrian Blackwell (Beijing, May 2008) was selected for the first issue of [bracket] publication.

[bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership.
[bracket] is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet. (…)
[bracket] is a publishing platform for ideas charting the complex overlap of the sphere of architecture and online social spheres. Seeking new voices and talent, [bracket] is structured around an open call for entries. The series will look at thematics in our age of globalization that are shaping the built environment in radically significant and yet unexpected ways.
Supported by the Graham Foundation.

In total, 39 Projects were selected by the jury – which consisted of Michael Speaks (Dean of the College of Design and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky); Nathalie de Vries (principal architect/founder of MVRDV); Mason White (co-founder of Lateral Office); Fritz Haeg (Fritz Haeg Studio, Sundown Schoolhouse); Charles Waldheim (Associate Dean and Director of the Landscape Architecture program of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto). Publication Date: Winter 2009.

Superlinear Garden Hub | Joseph Yau | Line13 Superlinearity Workshop

[bracket] ISSUE #1: ON FARMING

Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. From terraforming to foodsheds to crowdsourcing, farming often involves the management of the natural mediated by the technologic. Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

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LINE 13 SUPERLINEARITY project page

End of May 2008 movingcities was invited by Adrian Blackwell, Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto to give a design workshop in Beijing. Through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, we looked closer into the Beijing’s peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.

Students participating on this workshop: Gary Chien, Maya Desai, Holly Jordan, Hayley Imerman, Safora Khoylou, Esmond Lee, Timothy Lee, Antoine Morris, Mariangela Piccione, Matthew Spremulli, Sando Thordarson, Sandy Wong, Joseph Yau.

[bracket] | LINE13 - SUPERLINEARITY

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[bracket] ON FARMING | publication

Line 13 Superlinearity Workshop | Segments key | May, 2008

On Tuesday, December 9, we continued on our scanning of the peri-urban urban condition around Beijing’s Line13. Accompanied by Dutch graphical designer Gabrielle Marks and Canadian architect/movie-maker Derrick Wang, we walked the area around Wangjingxi and from Beiyuan to Lishuiqiao subway station (segment 4).

The Wangjingxi subway station, located on the Eastern side of Line13, has over the past months shown a clear form of urban status quo – the road widening projects are almost finished, construction workers are putting the facades on apartment building and the recycling villages in between construction sites have become parking lots – and today it looks like its middle class ambitions are becoming a reality. This area, a couple of years still an edge location, is from an urban design point of view totally indistinct. It could be anywhere and everywhere, a district lost in between highways.

At the other hand, Beiyuan subway station, located on the northern section of Line13, is still at forefront of Beijing’s urban development. In a couple of months’ time this area changed from hosting a theme park, dog training center and village into being a desert. Today, the first signs of transformation can be seen. Construction cranes arrived, migrant workers are wielding and pouring concrete, dormitories have been erected and a cloud of dust hangs over in this desert of bricks and rubble. Some snapshots.

Area around Wangjingxi subway station | Beijing, December 9

Walk from Beiyuan to Lishuiqiao subway station | Beijing, December 9

Pictures by movingcities.org

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Looping Line13 | snapshots

Line13 Superlinearity workshop presentation at TIMstudio | Beijing, May 31 2008

Workshop | analyses & conclusions

Line13 | Masterplan: Superimposing Programmatic Concepts

• Segment Analyses
• Program Analyses
• Programmatic Concepts
• Design Proposals
• Masterplan Proposals

Line13 Superlinearity project page

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Line13 Superlinearity | Presentation

Workshop | Public Presentation | May 31, 2008

Adrian Blackwell and movingcities.org are pleased to invite you to the final presentation of the LINE 13 – SUPERLINEARITY workshop*, hosted at TIM/studio in Beijing.

The workshop took place between May 26 and May 31: a group of 13 architecture students from the University of Toronto researched, worked and designed around the Northern section of Line13 (from Xierqi till Beiyuan) dealing with the topics of New Forms of Work, Productive Landscapes and Transportation Networks.

Review will start at 17h00.
The students will present their findings, analyses and conclusion,
followed by drinks/discussion.

Location: Theatre in Motion/studio, Beijing
Beixinqiao Dongsi Beidajie, Dongsi Shisi Tiao 93 A 4th Floor
中国北京东城区100007东 四十四条93 A楼四层

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*In collaboration with Xu Jian (Professor of Art History, Sichuan Polytechnic University).
*Students participating on this workshop: Gary Chien, Maya Desai, Holly Jordan, Hayley Imerman, Safora Khoylou, Esmond Lee, Timothy Lee, Antoine Morris, Mariangela Piccione, Matthew Spremulli, Sando Thordarson, Sandy Wong, Joseph Yau.

*More information about the workshop: Line13 Superlinearity project page.

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Line13 Superlinearity | Invitation

Line13 Superlinearity workshop | Beijing, May 29 2008

Workshop | day 4 of 5

Line13 Superlinearity workshop at TIMstudio | Beijing, May 30 2008

• Line13 Superlinearity project page

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Line13 Superlinearity | In work

Shangdi station | Beijing, May 29 2008

Workshop in-work presentation at TURENSCAPE | Beijing, May 29 2008

Around TURENSCAPE with Alexandro Cabrera Camprubi | Beijing, May 29 2008

TURENSCAPE Design Institute | Beijing, May 29 2008

Pictures by Bert de Muynck & Mónica Carriço | movingcities.org

• Line13 Superlinearity project page

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Line13 Superlinearity | TURENSCAPE

Introduction to the workshop by Adrian Blackwell | Beijing, May 27 2008

Introduction to movingcities by Bert de Muynck | Beijing, May 27 2008 (source: Blackwell-click to enlarge)

Moving on Line13 | Beijing, May 27 2008

Xizhimen station | Beijing, May 27 2008 (source: Blackwell-click to enlarge)

Beiyuan Subway Stop | Beijing, May 27 2008

Along Line13 | Beijing, May 27 2008

• Line13 Superlinearity project page

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Line13 Superlinearity | Intro & site visit

Beijing Line13

Between May 27 and May 31 movingcities is invited by Adrian Blackwell, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto to give a design workshop in Beijing, hosted by Theatre in Motion’s studio. We will be looking closer, through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, into the Beijing’s peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.

Line13 superlinearity | from Xierqi till Beiyuan

Line13 Superlinearity

Line13 is the mobility spine that makes Beijing move. It is an elevated subway line cutting through large parts of the modern city. With Beijing’s attempts to spread its urban growth into a polycentric model, Line13 re-organizes this ambition; connecting nodes of polycentric development. Surrounding the line are zones where economical, sociological and cultural tensions co-exist.

Throughout the following week we will develop some content, analyses, fieldtrips, ideas, projects and interventions focusing on the Northern section of this line. We go beyond. Beyond the fifth ringroad. Into a territory where urban research and design can reinvent itself.

We will elaborate more in the coming days, for now, have a look at our Line13 Superlinearity project page.

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Line13 Superlinearity | Workshop