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In the Forth joint studio, the two schools both explore the possibility of combining sharing practice and shared space with the central city. In Singapore, Pearl's Hill region, a diverse community at the edge of the downtown core, was selected as the site of NUS studio. Meanwhile, Tsinghua focused on a part of Guomao CBD surrounding the CCTV, which is the exact new downtown core of Beijing. As downtowns are high-density and high-value areas, whether sharing programs have potentials there was an issue discussed in both studios. Furthermore, students explored how to design these programs and spaces to achieve better public good for the city centers.
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In the third joint studio, the two schools placed different emphases on investigating respectively on how sharing practices can contribute to regenerating declining modernist architecture in the city and dilapidated villages. Two modernist landmarks in Singapore, namely People's Park Complex and Golden Mile Complex, were selected as the sites for design exploration of NUS studio, whereas the Tsinghua studio focused on four national-level poverty-stricken counties in the outskirt of Beijing. Having such a striking contrast in both context and approach is a new experiment of the joint design studio that aims to find out in which ways the knowledge and experience of designing sharing cities attained over the past two years can be transferred to improving the environment of rural villages, and to what extent the design for sharing in the urban and rural contexts can inform and even complement with each other.
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The second joint studio focused on how emerging sharing practices can contribute to regenerating former industrial areas in the city, and what new typologies of shared spaces can be created to accommodate and facilitate these sharing practices. The design explorations of the two studios were carried out using the sites of of Tanjong Pagar Terminal, the iconic port of Singapore that is a stone's throw from the city's commercial centre and to be vacated in the next few years when its lease expires, and 751 district, an enormous former power plant that is now fast becoming a new art district in the city of Beijing respectively. The Systems Approach developed by C. W. Churchman to address the complex social systems was employed to guide the design inquiry. Innovative ideas to transform both social and physical environments of industrial areas through intensive participation in various new sharing practices and platforms were developed and tested.
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The first joint studio explored the topic of Sharing Cities with a broad scope, aiming for obtaining a comprehensive understanding of various emerging sharing practices and their spatial manifestations. Design inquiries of both studios were carried out under a series of common themes, such as sharing infrastructure, sharing living, sharing commerce, sharing transport, sharing education, sharing heritage, etc. And a multitude of case studies in different countries around the world were conducted in details to aid the design exploration. The historic districts, namely Bai Ta Shield in Beijing and Joo Chiat in Singapore, were selected as the sites for the two studios respectively. Their fine-grained urban fabric, rich architectural heritage, complex social and economic conditions, and mixed residents of different demographic statues in combination provide a fertile test bed for experimenting with new ideas of sharing and shared spaces in all different categories.
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