by Tsinghua
This book is one of the outcomes of English Program
of Master in Architecture EPMA in Tsinghua
School of Architecture. The EPMA of Tsinghua
Universitys School of Architecture was aimed
to create a new platform for teaching master
courses of architecture for international students.
We intended to enlarge the reach of our schools
teaching philosophy by integrating a critical understanding
of regional conditions with a global
and multi-disciplinary network, and to have this
teaching environment be engaged with the international
dialogue.Since the establishment of the
program in 2008, we have successfully attracted
91 international students from more than 30
countries in all five continents in the world.
Within our international program, we combine
the critical academic atmosphere with real-world
issues that arise from the current process of
Chinas rapid urbanization. Students are encouraged
to be critical, have be able to think reflexively
in analyzing the real situation, and to create from
a specific cultural context. The program includes
4 theory courses with 4 design studios. The first
theme for theory course and design studio is local,
with the theory course of Chinese local archicteture
and the design studio of Architecture of
space sprite. The second theme is contemporary,
with the theory course of world contemporary architectural
design trend and design studio of new
design method including parametric design. The
third theme is urban, with theory course of development
of chinese cities and the urban design
studio. The fourth theme is technology, with the
theory course of green building and green building
design studio.
Urban design studio is the course facing the urban
issues among the above studios. It is aimed
to set up a cross-culture platform of the urban
topics discussion for the international students. In
recent years, Knowledge City, Ecology City, Safe
city and Edge City are selected as the themes
of the studio. In 2017, Sharing City is chosen as
the theme for the joint studio set up by School
of Architecture in Tsinghua University and School
of Design & Environment in National University
of Singapore. The Sharing Cities studio aims to
provide solutions to emerging concept of sharing,
and responds to the idea of public space sharing
and sustainable urban development from social,
economic and humanitarian perspectives. The
success of Tsinghua-NUS joint studio pushes
forward the international cooperation process of
urban design studio and other studios in EPMA.
We hope the improving EPMA and urban design
studio would act as a window for international
exchange students from all over the world to get
access to the Chinese architectural and urban
knowledge base and practice.
Director of English Program of Master in Architecture
Prof. LI Xiaodong
Director of Urban Design Studio Prof. ZHANG
Yue
by NUS
The rapid pace of change in the cultural and economic
landscape of China compels us to rethink
the nature of the built environment afresh. While
modes of production and consumption undergo
breakneck speeds of transformation, the city and
buildings remain unmoved, and innovations in
building technology and perception crawl in snail
pace by comparison. With the advent of smart
phones ten years ago and the tens of millions of
Apps that were developed since, urban living had
changed dramatically. Is it possible for the physical
environment to re-conceive in tandem with
such changes in lifestyle, habit, social cohesion
and other pertinent issues. How can we conceptualize
the city of today and perhaps of tomorrow?
These are the questions grappled by architecture
students from Tsinghua University and National
University of Singapore in the Sharing Cities
workshops and studios. The collaboration not
only brings students from different international
backgrounds together, but also young talents to
imagine the future. They share the concerns of
the current development in Beijing and Singapore
as two of the most exciting and rapidly developing
mega cities in the world and also project the
future of urban and building designs in these cities
that would embrace co-sharing as a practice
for urban life. Studio is the key arena for postulations,
debates, expressions and substantiations
of ideas and collaborative studio, such as this one
presented in the book, deepens the experience
further.
The choice for the topic and format of the studio
are relevant to the issues at hand, the real life
situation that we are living in, and the method
for eliciting and producing innovative ideas and
proposals. The students have been investigating
the nature of co-sharing as well as the myths surrounding
this mode of consumption. They have
explored different options and provided design
solutions that would facilitate various forms of
sharing： culture, heritage, transport, to name a
few. Through research, case studies and design
activities, the students collectively and individually
have gained awareness and insights in this
fast growing living pattern. They are able to hone
their design skill too to facilitate and inspire the
increasing popular lifestyle. This book bears witness
to their achievement.
Head of Department of Architecture
Prof. Puay-Peng HO
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