NEXT ：Ecological Intervention for Shanghai Historical Li-Long Housing

1. BACKGROUND
    The International Design Summer School has been organized by CAUP (College of Architecture and Urban Planning), Tongji University in Shanghai since 2005. The two-week design workshop has gained an international reputation as an unique platform for international students to meet and communicate each other , and widely accepted and highly praised by renowned universities both domestically and worldwide.

The 2012 CAUP Summer School is now open to the students who come from 32 invited renowned institutes of architecture and design for application domestically and aboard. During the two-week period, a “Chinese cultural tour ” in weekend is planned for students to enhance the interests and understanding on Chinese traditional culture. The final works will be criticized by invited international jurors, and exhibited , published as well. The three most prominent ones will be awarded.

2. ORGNIZATION

l         ORGANIZER：College of Architecture and Urban Planning

l         SPONSOR:    East China Architectural Design & Research Co., Ltd. (ECADI)

              Shanghai Urban Planning & Design Research Institute (SUPDRI)

              Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co. Ltd. (TJAD)

              Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute (TJUPDI)

l         CO-ORGANIZER：Planning & Land Administration Bureau of Hong Kou District, Shanghai

3. INVITATION AND APPLICATION
       2012 CAUP Summer School plans to invite 32 best colleges /universities of architecture and design, 16 from China and 16 aboard. Each college/university could select one graduate student to participate whose major is either architecture,urban planning or landscape. Together with 8 students from CAUP, 40 participants will be divided into 8 groups.English is working language. In order to guarantee the world class quality of Summer School, a jury committee would examine the application material of each candidate. 

The information and materials that the applicant is supposed to submit:

l         NAME

l         PASSPORT  Nr.

l         BIRTH DATE

l         BIRTH PLACE

l         COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY AND GRADE

l         COMPLETED APPLICATION FORM (Please download the application form on the website: http://www.tongji-caup.org)

l         PORTFOLIO INCLUDING TWO PIECES OF WORKS (The resolution of each picture is 300dpi)

l         A RECOMMENDATION LETTER FROM PROFESSOR OF HIS/HER COLLEGE /UNIVERSITY

The beginning date of application: May 8^th, 2012

The deadline of application:  June 20^th,2012

The date of releasing formal invitation:  June 30^th,2012

4. ACCOMODATION AND TRAVEL EXPENSE
       The organization committee covers accommodation costs of invited students and advisers during the workshop, while the travel expense for the round trip should be borne by themselves.

5. THEME:

The theme of 2012 Summer School is:

NEXT：Ecological Intervention for Shanghai Historical Li-Long Housing

Li-Long housing is considered the most representative local residential building type of Shanghai. As a symbol of the City Shanghai, with the emergence of successful projects like Xin Tiandi,Tian zifang etc. in recent 10 years, Li-Long housing is becoming a popular hot issue on preservation and revitalization of local urban heritage, playing rather important role in the process of Shanghai urbanization. Most of Lilong housing, however, is in bad condition. On the one hand, the existing housing structures are decayed, the existing equipments are so poor that cannot meet the growing living request.of local residents; on the other hand, self-updating system of housing  can’t start due to the over-high density of population and serious social conflicts .These problems caused Li-Long housing gradually as obstacles in urban development and heritage preservation..

In this case, as the platform of international exchanges and cooperation, the 2012 CAUP summer school tries to explore the strategies and practices on preservation and ecological revitalization of historical Lilong housing in Shanghai, and studies the possibility of future development. It will raise contemporary architects to consider more aspects on social, economical , cultural, architectural and technological value of urban sustainable development deeply.

In collaboration with Urban Planning Bureau of Shanghai Hong Kou District, CAUP has carefully selected a typical Li-Long housing block in the Hong Kou District which still keeps main characteristics of old Lilong housing neighbourhood as a real study sample for 2012 Summer School program, and participants are encouraged to develop open-mind discussion based on the following three pairs of problems:

l         Homogeneous urban texture vs deteriorative physical environment

l         Compact and orderly space of neighborhood vs complex and chaotic residential environment

l         Historical value of architecture vs sustainable progress of modern life

The aim of this issue is to explore a model of Li-Long housing quarters through ecological intervention ,it should meet three criterion:

1) The proposal should highlight one’s imagination. Endeavors to solve realistic sustainable problems at all levels (social, historical, environmental, economic, etc) with an Utopian open mind will be encouraged.

2) Think Global, act Local. Participants are to deal with sustainable development, a growing global concern, at the local level, by responding creatively to the local climate, urban fabric, and social culture as well.

3) Experiment on new technologies while optimizing the existing ones, and integrating them with sustainable ecological elements .

In short, 2012 CAUP Summer School offers every participants an unique opportunity to meet and communicate, and develop their innovative strategies together on preservation and renovation of Li-Long housing in Shanghai.

We are looking forward to meeting qualified participants in Shanghai.

6. MEMBERS OF THE JURY COMMITTEE

Yonghe Zhang

Dongyang  Liu

Shinichi Okuyama

Benjamin Wood

Wu Wei

7. AGENDA

PS: 40 students would be divided into 8 groups. Each group should complete 10 A1 Panel design drawings. Each group should submit at least 1 design model.

8. AWARDS

Gold award (one winner): 12000 RMB

Silver award (one winner):10000 RMB

Bronze award (one winnner): 8000 RMB

9. Venue

D Building Model Lab ,Ground floor , CAUP

10. Contact

address：B Building, Room 128, College of Architecture and Urban Planning,

           Tongji University, Nr. 1239 ,Si Ping Rd., Shanghai

Email：ss_next@hotmail.com

TEL：0086-21-65983592   (10:00am—16:00 am)

FAX：0086-21-65986809     

WEBSITE：http://www.tongji-caup.org

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