Hybridize the Community

This project is located in Chongqing, China. Chao Tian Men District is one of the oldest and most dense districts in Chongqing Peninsula. As a result of the development of CBD area in the west of the site, this district lacks management and maintenance from the government, and the local residents and labour are forced out of jobs due to the degraded economy. The living condition and logistics transportation are in chaos at the present. However, the tightness of the old district still retains as a strong connection of a community which is hardly found in the high-rise typology.

This project re-develops the old district and create a hybrid community, so that the living quality can be improved whilst the vibrant social and cultural urban space are brought to the district. This project explores the hybridized objects designed for the appropriate combinations of functions and related spaces between human activities and urban relationships. This test of hybridizing the community attempts to affect the missing cultural and social heritage by the architectural language, which includes integrated amenities, overlapping of public space and appropriate dwellings.