The article examines Wutopia Lab’s transformation of the Water Tower Home(shuita zhijia,also know as‘House on the House’),a top-floor unit of a residential building converted from a water tower located in a Bulinli...The article examines Wutopia Lab’s transformation of the Water Tower Home(shuita zhijia,also know as‘House on the House’),a top-floor unit of a residential building converted from a water tower located in a Bulinli lilong neighbourhood in Shanghai.In 2015,the top-floor unit was transformed into a three-bedroom apartment,which was featured in a popular reality TV show Dream Home.Using the concept of‘raumplan’as the primary design strategy,the design deploys various heights and platforms to re-organise the internal space while largely maintaining the exterior appearance of the building.It deliberately avoided homogeneous visual control and accommodated the residents’complex functional requirements within a highly restricted space.The research scrutinises various actors’involvement during the production of the reality TV show and the transformation process.It highlights how the design team navigated the stakeholders’complex needs and the rigid yet ambiguous policy related to the regeneration of Shanghai’s unofficial urban heritage.By reflecting upon the various formal and informal design practices in this structure and its eventual demolition,the article illustrates the dilemmas in bottom-up regeneration of the historic urban environment in contemporary China.展开更多
文摘Wutopia Lab Wutopia Lab由建筑师俞挺和设计师闵而尼创立于上海,是一所以魔幻现实主义,创造日常奇迹的全球本地化先锋建筑设计事务所。Wutopia Lab以复杂系统这种思维范式为基础,以上海性和生活性为介入设计的原点,以建筑为工具,推动建筑学和社会学进步的建筑实践实验。Wutopia Lab曾获得2020 IF Design Award,入选2017、2019年度AD100榜单,Archdaily评选的a selection of the world’s best Architects,以及2018年Architectural Record评选的Design Vanguard,是2018年度唯一入选的中国事务所。
基金Sponsored by Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai,No.23ZR1468300.
文摘The article examines Wutopia Lab’s transformation of the Water Tower Home(shuita zhijia,also know as‘House on the House’),a top-floor unit of a residential building converted from a water tower located in a Bulinli lilong neighbourhood in Shanghai.In 2015,the top-floor unit was transformed into a three-bedroom apartment,which was featured in a popular reality TV show Dream Home.Using the concept of‘raumplan’as the primary design strategy,the design deploys various heights and platforms to re-organise the internal space while largely maintaining the exterior appearance of the building.It deliberately avoided homogeneous visual control and accommodated the residents’complex functional requirements within a highly restricted space.The research scrutinises various actors’involvement during the production of the reality TV show and the transformation process.It highlights how the design team navigated the stakeholders’complex needs and the rigid yet ambiguous policy related to the regeneration of Shanghai’s unofficial urban heritage.By reflecting upon the various formal and informal design practices in this structure and its eventual demolition,the article illustrates the dilemmas in bottom-up regeneration of the historic urban environment in contemporary China.
