This article theorises the local world as a conceptual scaffold for future conservation and regeneration.It aims to catalyse a theoretical dialogue across the East and West to understand how ordinary places and lifewo...This article theorises the local world as a conceptual scaffold for future conservation and regeneration.It aims to catalyse a theoretical dialogue across the East and West to understand how ordinary places and lifeworlds are preserved,reproduced,and possibly reimagined.The local worlds discussed herein are conceptualised as the worlds of many,the worlds of relating,the worlds of structuring and the worlds of becoming.These four cardinal points present a source of open-endedness and futurity for contemporary architectural reinterpretation.The current article examines the characterisation of the Wen village conservation and regeneration project,led by the Amateur Architecture Studio in Zhejiang Province of China(2012–2016),as an architectural reimagination of local worlds,with a strong sensitivity to the ordinary places and lifeworlds of rural China and juxtapositions of new local worlds within old worlds.By piecing together the flows and fragments of the architectural process,this article shows how locally situated designs and dynamics have shaped the project in both its formation and afterlife,both ethically and contemporarily.Using close readings of popular and oral accounts from both architect’s and users’perspectives,this article extends the case study by broadening theoretical conversations about contemporary architecture’s capacity to reimagine local worlds.展开更多
The new architecture may provide unusual opportunities for the abandoned areas involved by former industrial processes, both in the city centers and in the landscape. In fact, it may create new centralities and give n...The new architecture may provide unusual opportunities for the abandoned areas involved by former industrial processes, both in the city centers and in the landscape. In fact, it may create new centralities and give new collective function for deprived areas. The case study of the architectural and educational project for a new museum park devoted to the technique and the science in the Apennine＇ s landscape near Parma （Italy） may give an interesting point of view about the role of the teaching and the research of the architecture in the former industrial heritage, and to avoid the abandonment and the pauperization of the territory around.展开更多
基金supported by the University of Sheffield School of Architecture research funding.
文摘This article theorises the local world as a conceptual scaffold for future conservation and regeneration.It aims to catalyse a theoretical dialogue across the East and West to understand how ordinary places and lifeworlds are preserved,reproduced,and possibly reimagined.The local worlds discussed herein are conceptualised as the worlds of many,the worlds of relating,the worlds of structuring and the worlds of becoming.These four cardinal points present a source of open-endedness and futurity for contemporary architectural reinterpretation.The current article examines the characterisation of the Wen village conservation and regeneration project,led by the Amateur Architecture Studio in Zhejiang Province of China(2012–2016),as an architectural reimagination of local worlds,with a strong sensitivity to the ordinary places and lifeworlds of rural China and juxtapositions of new local worlds within old worlds.By piecing together the flows and fragments of the architectural process,this article shows how locally situated designs and dynamics have shaped the project in both its formation and afterlife,both ethically and contemporarily.Using close readings of popular and oral accounts from both architect’s and users’perspectives,this article extends the case study by broadening theoretical conversations about contemporary architecture’s capacity to reimagine local worlds.
文摘The new architecture may provide unusual opportunities for the abandoned areas involved by former industrial processes, both in the city centers and in the landscape. In fact, it may create new centralities and give new collective function for deprived areas. The case study of the architectural and educational project for a new museum park devoted to the technique and the science in the Apennine＇ s landscape near Parma （Italy） may give an interesting point of view about the role of the teaching and the research of the architecture in the former industrial heritage, and to avoid the abandonment and the pauperization of the territory around.
