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Expo 2010++ University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture Shanghai Study Centre
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This fourth consecutive AA Shanghai Summer School will be hosted at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture Shanghai Study Centre. In this intensive nine-day studio-based course, we will investigate new computational design approaches in architecture and urbanism, within the context of Shanghai, one of the world’s most rapidly growing, emblematic twentyfirst century cities of commerce, industry and culture. This year’s subject is the 5.3-square-kilometre site currently being developed for the Shanghai 2010 Expo, focusing on proposals for the site after the six month event. We will confront the limitations of the short-term historical legacy and context of the expo, by engaging in the complexity of urbanism as a life-like, dynamic and evolutionary process. In the first stage of a two phase programme, parametric design systems will be introduced in a series of intensive presentation and tutorial sessions, as the basis for investigating information-based associative design concepts and methodologies. * e1 M6 ^/ N3 _* k
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In the second stage of work, these new design and production tools will target the creation of dynamic architectural scenarios and urban models generated in relation to the Shanghai Expo site, as the test-bed for teambased comprehensive design exercises and propositions. Students will apply code-based modelling, simulation and fabrication techniques, towards multiple, variable, sequential, and recursive prototypes for a range of new cultural, commercial and civic facilities, driven by scenarios of future incremental, adaptive growth and change.
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