Urban Passages: Transitional Spaces for the 21st Century City

We launches an open, public and international call for projects of ideas directed at professional working in the architectural and urban domain under 40 years of age.

Description
MAKING URBANITY THROUGH PASSAGES IN THE REAPPROPRIATED EXPO SITE
Context: Implementation of a new CBD in the eastern part of Shanghai 2010 Expo site: « Better City, Better life ». The goal is not to transform the master plan in its main lines, but to make additions as a set of passages interconnecting the different parts of the site, the area with the city, with its direct surroundings and the transportation nodes.
What kind of passages can be created in the Eastern part of the Expo 2010 site? How to create a real living urban district, managing connections from metropolitan mobility to soft mobility with a diversity of uses? How to link the site to its natural and built environment?
Shanghai is known for its investments in public transport: new subway lines, buses, development of roadwork have widely contributed to its development. To develop intermodality and the reasoned usage of the various ways of transportation, it is necessary to pay attention on the quality of spaces that facilitate change from one mode of transport to another, which open up the often mono-functional neighborhoods that call to heart human scale of course with bridges, walkways, pathways. These places are not only functional infrastructure, but also can be genuine public spaces that offer perspectives on the landscape, home to a variety of uses and activities, are spots guidance and information, facilitate walkability and cohabitation of speediness and slow.

Jury
Prof Wu Jiang, Vice president, Tongji University
Prof Zheng Shilin, academician, Tongji University
Xu Yisong, deputy director, urban planning bureau, Shanghai
Yu Kongjian, architect, designer, landscaper Turenscape (CN)
Kristian Koreman, landscape architect ZUS (Zones urbaines sensibles) Rotterdam (NL) - to confirm
Marcel Smets, architect, urban planner, president of the IVM Scientific and Orientation council (B)
Didier Rebois, architect, Secretary General Europan, teacher Paris (FR)

Prize
Three prizes: a total sum of 8 000€
The 8 selected teams: 7000 Euros (including the workshop's expenses)

Entry Fee
None

Entries
The booklet composed 6 pages (format A3, 420 x 297 mm)

Language
English and Chinese

Timetable
Announcement of the 8 teams that will take part to the workshop: 15 January 2015
Worshop in Shanghai with the 8 selected teams, concluding with a prize awards ceremony and a public presentation/debate about the projects: 13 - 19 March 2015
The 8 teams send the final version of their work: 20 April 2015
Exhibition and public event with the prize-winning teams: End April 2015

Organizer
City-on-the-Move Institute (IVM international), Tongji University, Expo Shanghai Group

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