The Valley of Wind

Project idea

This design creation attempts to use climatic experience as a design tool to deal with today's daily life dominated by purely visual images, to resist the spectacle under the control of capitalism, and to construct its own situation.The main concept of the design is to create a large-scale urban form - a wind current aqueduct that guides cool summer winds from the ocean through the city and eventually into the ancient city of Hangzhou.The aim of the design is to create an interconnected network of microclimates in the form of urban courtyards, reframing identities on a small scale through a series of entrances: from the city to the neighborhood, to the building to the individual residence.

Project description

A mega-infrastructure across the city, managing climate and natural resources, dispersing these to every community level, this transition point is where the courtyard in a traditional Chinese village is, where a person has a sense of self while at the same time interacting with connected to a larger network of streets. The street system belonging to the public space and the spontaneous private area are reconstructed into a three-dimensional canyon resettlement house built on the old world to construct a space that can trigger multiple body perceptions, thereby resisting the purely visual society.

Technical information

Residential structural system spanning "old world" low-rise dwellings, grid of columns, concrete frame,and lightweight construction for stair systems and spontaneous courtyards.