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Kicking off Good Design for a Bad World, our series of talks about how design could tackle the world’s big problems, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs hosts a discussion on climate change live from Dutch Design Week.
The talk focuses on how climate change can be tackled and mitigated through design, and what designers can do to protect the population from its detrimental effects.
The livestream has now ended, but you can still watch the panel discussion in full above or on Dezeen’s Facebook page.
Dutch Design Week international ambassador Marcus Fairs is joined by Richard van der Lacken, co-founder of design conference What Design Can Do and initiator of the Climate Action Challenge, a competition that tasks designers to coming up with solutions to global warming.
Atelier NL co-founder Lonny van Ryswky and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Annemartine van Kesteren are also on the panel, along with Babette Porcelijn, an industrial designer who has written a book exploring humanity’s impact on the planet.
Dezeen is hosting five panel discussions as part of the Good Design for a Bad World initiative. The talks are free to attend, and are taking place at the People’s Pavilion at KetelHuisplein 1, in the Strijp-S district of Eindhoven.
The next talk, which it about design for refugees and host communities, will begin today at 2:30pm CEST.
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Crops are planted on the roofs of these houses in China’s Sichuan Province, which were designed by Rural Urban Framework as a possible solution for accommodating people affected by natural disasters.
Jintai Village is located near Guangyuan, Sichuan Province, which was one of the areas worst affected by the devastating Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008. The area also suffered floods and landslides in 2011, which destroyed many of the rebuilt homes.
With support from the local government and NGOs, Rural Urban Framework developed an architectural solution that provides appropriate accommodation for people who suddenly find themselves homeless following such destructive events.
The non-for-profit research and design studio – led by John Lin and Joshua Bolchover and based at The University of Hong Kong – came up with a socially and environmentally sustainable proposal that addresses the unique needs of various users.
“The design strategy provides four different types of houses, differing in size, function and their roof sections,” the architects explained.
“These demonstrate new uses of local materials, a green stepped-roof, biogas technologies, and accommodation for pigs and chickens.”
The project comprises 22 houses, as well as a community centre with its own rooftop garden. The houses are packed tightly together on the site to maximise the available space and create a similar feel to that of some inner-city neighbourhoods.
The overall approach promotes sustainable ecological behaviours, with rainwater harvesting, natural light and ventilation all incorporated into the design of the buildings.
Encouraging self-sufficiency was a key concern for the architects, who planned the houses to accommodate family-run workshops on open ground floors and to include space for growing food on the roofs.
“By relating various programs of the village to an ecological cycle, environment responsiveness is heightened, transforming the village into a model for nearby areas,” the studio suggested.
“Because the land available for house building is limited, the village combines dense urban living in a rural context.”
The buildings are arranged along narrow streets, with the upper storeys cantilevered over a sheltered porch that allows people to sit outside and sell their products or interact with passers by.
Each house features an exposed concrete framework with contrasting brick in-fill cladding. Concrete window frames that protrude through the brickwork allow light to reach the interiors.
Different configurations result in the roof shapes of the houses, varying from ridged roofs, to roofs with a diamond-shaped mono-pitch, or valley roofs that rise up towards opposite corners.
All of the roofs are stepped to create a series of terraces that can be planted with vegetables or crops for consumption by the occupants.
“This is an investigation into modern rural livelihood,” Rural Urban Framework concluded. “With tens of thousands of newly planned villages occurring in China today, the challenge is to plan villages as authentic places whereby the spatial organisation and physical expression is derived directly from its relationship to its natural environment.”
John Lin and Joshua Bolchover established Rural Urban Framework in 2005 to help charities and NGOs improve life for people living in rural communities, following the Chinese government’s announcement of a plan to urbanise half of the country’s 700 million rural citizens by 2030.
Through developing and executing more than 15 projects in rural China, including schools, community centres, hospitals, housing and infrastructure, the studio has been able to explore the social, economic and political processes involved in transforming these villages.
In 2015, Rural Urban Framework was awarded the Curry Stone Design Prize for humanitarian architecture. The studio’s completed projects include a new toilet block at a primary school that is clad entirely in mirrored tiles, and a grey-brick hospital featuring a ramp that extends up onto its roof.
Photography is by the architects.
Project credits:
Design: John Lin and Joshua Bolchover
Landscape design: Dorothy Tang
Project leaders: Kwan Kwok Ying (Village Houses), Liu Chang (Community Center), Viola Huang (Landscape)
Project team: Ashley Hinchcliffe, Huang Zhiyun, Ip Sin Ying, Eva Herunter
Donor: Nan Fung Group
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Design’s role in the ongoing refugee crisis is the focus of our next Good Design for a Bad World talk, which is the second in a five-part series we’re streaming live from Dutch Design Week.
Dutch Design Week international ambassador Marcus Fairs hosts the discussion, which questions how design, architecture and urbanism could make life easier for refugees and host communities.
The livestream has now ended, but you can watch the panel discussion in full above or on Dezeen’s Facebook page.
He is joined by former refugee camp manager and humanitarian consultant Kilian Kleinschmidt to discuss how the urban design of refugee camps could be improved. Also on the panel are architecture historian Michelle Provoost and critic Rene Boer, who will examine whether design can stem the tide of population movements.
Dezeen is hosting five panel discussions as part of the Good Design for a Bad World initiative. The talks are free to attend, and are taking place at the People’s Pavilion at KetelHuisplein 1, in the Strijp-S district of Eindhoven.
Our final talk of the day explores the theme of terrorism within the context of urban design, and is taking place at 4pm CEST.
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For the interior of this dried food store in Tokyo, Schemata Architects painted fixtures and fittings the same shade of red as the skinny building it is set inside.
Called Yagicho, the store occupies the ground floor of a slim, nine-storey office block in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, that was designed and built by the Hishida Construction Company in the late 1970s.
Yagicho has a 280-year history of selling traditional Japanese dried foods including katsuobushi (dried bonito), konbu (kelp), and shiitake (Japanese mushroom) – the three basic ingredients that are used to make dashi, a soup stock that forms the base of Japanese cuisine.
Measuring just 3.65 metres wide, the store has been completely renovated by Tokyo-based studio Schemata Architects, which began by painting the interior the same colour as the building’s original red facade.
“Observing that the red resembles the colour of dried bonito, we decided to use it as the base colour representing Yagicho’s identity,” explained the studio.
“We made wooden boxes for display in the main store space out of MDF in the same colour, and placed them in stacks to create a space resembling a marketplace.”
A cash counter island in the centre of the store doubles as a demonstration kitchen where shop assistants show how to make ichiban-dashi (soup stock).The architects said they positioned the counter in the centre so as to create a “non-hierarchical communication between hosts and guests”.
The architects said they positioned the counter in the centre so as to create a “non-hierarchical communication between hosts and guests”.
A series of copper water pipes snake across the store’s ceiling and down into the central island, where there is a sink for food preparation.
A bespoke lighting fixture made also made from copper tubing sits alongside the water pipes, while a series of tables and stools provide a seating area where guests can sample the soup.
Positioned on a street corner, the shop benefits from two glazed facades with large doors that can be opened up to the street. The architects explained, “On sunny days, the store opens all doors and closely connects itself to the city. People constantly flow in and out, while generating a vibrant atmosphere spreading to the city.”
“On sunny days, the store opens all doors and closely connects itself to the city,” said the architects. “People constantly flow in and out, while generating a vibrant atmosphere spreading to the city.”
Schemata Architects has designed interiors for a number of retail stores across Japan. Last year, the studio completed the design of a Tokyo coffee shop that uses plywood panels to conceal storage, as well as the renovation of a Japanese eyewear brand’s store in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, where walls were removed to create a more open-plan and welcoming space.
Photography is by Kenya Chiba.
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