︎Year 4
Tong Jiang
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The
Self-Build
Guangzhou,
China
Chinese urban villages are
by-products of rapid urbanisation, which can be regarded as autonomous
self-built organisations based on the original rules of villages, but affected
by an urbanisation model which leads them to occupy a contradictory, complex
and hybrid status in the city. Due to the exceptional location and political
conditions, these unique communities create new spatial and social orders
that are distinguished from the capitalist paradigm and the bourgeois
aesthetics. This project looks at the controversial role of self-build in
current urban context, and proposes a participatory framework to reframe the
self-build in a legitimate status in order to respond to housing dilemmas in
China’s modernisation.. We imagine self-build as a tool, which has the
possibility to create a hybrid housing pattern that embraces the diversity of
space, aesthetic and society.
Contact:
tj326@cam.ac.uk