Kashgar Old Town Renovation

Architectural & High-rise Project. 2019
Studio Project 2019 Summer
Instructor: Sheng Bi, Congbao Xu, Xun Piao
Partner: Jingwei Li
Site: Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China
Background

Kashgar old town

Kashgar under modernization

If old city districts can meet the needs of modernization, can they be better preserved? What should we do to preserve national tradition with the trend of modernist modular architecture?
In order to make the old town meet the requirement of modern gathering and high density, we project the original town onto the skyscraper and reconstruct the building according to the original space type. In order to modernize the ancient town of Kashgar, we decided to orthogonalize streets, buildings and spatial forms of Kashgar into orthogoanal systems, unify the scales and standardize them into modules and organize them into urban environment.

Background

The orthogonalization of street forms

The orthogonalization of residence units

Perspective view

Space variation
Section Drawing

Design Project
Architectural & High-rise Project
Studio project
Instructor
Sheng Bi, Congbao Xu, Xun Piao
Designer
Shuai Ma, Jingwei Li
Tools and Techniques
SketchUp, Rhino, AutoCAD, Vray, Adobe Suite
Summer 2019