Abstract: The design of The Mid-city's New Apple Center is based on extensive research on different levels: physical built environment, programmatic area and infrastructure research. All of this research was concentrated on the aspects of problem-discovering methodology, such as abandoned built environment in Chicago Mid-city, unbalanced urban area development, missing connection in terms of transportation and industry economy decaying. The design The Midcity's New Apple Center has been keeping exploring the solutions to these urban problems, which is able to be organized in three levels in terms of scale - scale, neighborhood scale and building scale. The design of scale named as Cluster city is a urban strategy to condense the urban resources, opportunities and built environment. In terms of neighborhood scale, the concept From Individualism to Collectivism was raised up to image a new urban life - collective work opportunity, balanced education system and public street life in the broad background of America. Within them, the building project New Apple Center will be focused on the target that how a building could that catalyzed the new development of central Cluster City and how a future envelop holds the capacity to contain a new chain of capitalism production chain.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-10-29
Language: en
Type: article
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