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urban design
purpose:
Graduate design studio project exploring urban design solutions to the expansive amounts of housing being constructed in China under the strict solar exposure mandates. the project focused on a neighborhood within Binhai, China for 30,000 residents.
design solution:
This studio was completed under the direction of architect Daniel Solomon, whose firm also faced the same design challenges of this exercise. The new city of Binhai, is rapidly being constructed to house millions of new residents. I explored multiple scales in the design process - the urban design, neighborhood, block, building, and unit. Not only was it critical to create a well organized parti and solar code-compliant buildings, the design also needed to fit into the larger context of the new Binhai city development.
