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Bridging

[EN] The Design Unit addressed the issue of quality of collective places in large-scale urbanization processes in China. As widely known, the construction of hundreds of new towns is progressing rapidly, with a weak stratification of social and cultural values. The grain that “makes the city” is no longer the house, as it was in traditional China, neither the public space, but large mono-functional lots avoiding any chance of keeping the human dimension as a fundamental of the project. To face this problem through a critical approach, the Design Unit worked in collaboration with Tsinghua University on a New Town located in the periphery of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The aim of the project was to realize complex urban spaces, focused on community life and collective “human-scaled” places.

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