HUBit: Resilient strategy for creating vibrant urbanity in Qinshuihe
Heikkilä, Anna (2015)
Lataukset:
Heikkilä, Anna
2015
Arkkitehtuurin koulutusohjelma
Talouden ja rakentamisen tiedekunta - Faculty of Business and Built Environment
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2015-06-03
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201505061256
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201505061256
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This master’s thesis has been done through participation in the Global Schindler award 2015 that takes place in the Shenzhen suburb of Qingshuihe. The competition set the aims and goals for the project that has been deemed adequate requirements for the thesis by the supervisor. This thesis studies the issues of megacities’ city structures in Asia and particularly China where city space is commonly enclosed and introverted, lacking both public spaces and human scale connections. The competition’s theme, access to urbanity, refers to the main goals of mobility and equal accessibility to vibrant city life.
Shenzhen is China’s major financial center. It was transformed in late 1979 from a small fishing village with 20 thousand habitants into a metropolitan area of 2 020 km² with a population of approximately 10 million people. It is an internationally important boarder city between mainland China and Hong Kong and acts as one of China’s gates to the world. Shenzhen has developed rapidly into a Chinas first and most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The exact competition site is situated in Sungang Qingshuihe (QS) and is a neighborhood of 2.5 square kilometers. It is situated 11km from the city center of Shenzhen and lies in between the political borders of the Special Administrative Zone of Hong Kong and the former frontier of Shenzhen’s Special Economic Zone. Regional mobility is strong in SQ as the area was developed to be an important transit node for industrial products. Infrastructure and warehouses act as dominant characteristics of the area. But there are also topographical and hydrological elements that create both possibilities and on the contrary borders for the urban accessibility to develop. Thus, the existing social structure is diverse and complex but doesn’t work as a whole nor provide equal quality of life or urban access for all.
My proposal, HUBit, is a strategic plan that is represented in this thesis. It focuses on developing the spaces between the built environment and creating new possibilities for citizens to move and explore the city. HUBit is an adaptable development strategy to create a resilient city structure. It consists of focus points that are places for hubs to be build and a mobility network that is activated by citizens interaction between the hubs and built environment. The strategy’s main aim is to provide a socially livable and equally accessible city for the citizens of Qingshuihe.
Shenzhen is China’s major financial center. It was transformed in late 1979 from a small fishing village with 20 thousand habitants into a metropolitan area of 2 020 km² with a population of approximately 10 million people. It is an internationally important boarder city between mainland China and Hong Kong and acts as one of China’s gates to the world. Shenzhen has developed rapidly into a Chinas first and most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The exact competition site is situated in Sungang Qingshuihe (QS) and is a neighborhood of 2.5 square kilometers. It is situated 11km from the city center of Shenzhen and lies in between the political borders of the Special Administrative Zone of Hong Kong and the former frontier of Shenzhen’s Special Economic Zone. Regional mobility is strong in SQ as the area was developed to be an important transit node for industrial products. Infrastructure and warehouses act as dominant characteristics of the area. But there are also topographical and hydrological elements that create both possibilities and on the contrary borders for the urban accessibility to develop. Thus, the existing social structure is diverse and complex but doesn’t work as a whole nor provide equal quality of life or urban access for all.
My proposal, HUBit, is a strategic plan that is represented in this thesis. It focuses on developing the spaces between the built environment and creating new possibilities for citizens to move and explore the city. HUBit is an adaptable development strategy to create a resilient city structure. It consists of focus points that are places for hubs to be build and a mobility network that is activated by citizens interaction between the hubs and built environment. The strategy’s main aim is to provide a socially livable and equally accessible city for the citizens of Qingshuihe.