Emergent Urban Ecologies

  • Rendering. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.
  • Rendering. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.
  • Rendering. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.

Emergent Urban Ecologies is an intensive computational design programme, which brought together students and teaching staff from MKSSS’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture for Women in Pune, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During a five-day workshop, participants engaged with the latest digital design and fabrication methodologies and applied them to a public space in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. A large-scale suspended fabric canopy was produced and remained on-site for a period of two weeks, providing shading and playful spaces of different scale and character. The programme is a valuable opportunity for exchange between students and teaching staff with different cultural backgrounds, and engages with historical and contemporary challenges facing an old urban district in Hong Kong.

Emergent Urban Ecologies is an intensive computational design programme, which brought together students and teaching staff from MKSSS’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture for Women in Pune, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During a five-day workshop, participants engaged with the latest digital design and fabrication methodologies and applied them to a public space in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. A large-scale suspended fabric canopy was produced and remained on-site for a period of two weeks, providing shading and playful spaces of different scale and character. The programme is a valuable opportunity for exchange between students and teaching staff with different cultural backgrounds, and engages with historical and contemporary challenges facing an old urban district in Hong Kong.

Milestone

2019.Q1
Project awarded Design Trust Seed Grant

2019.06
“Emergent Urban Ecologies Collaborative Architecture Workshop” is organised

2020.Q4
The installation will be presented to the public in Hong Kong

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2019
Grantee: Jeroen van Ameijde

Jeroen van Ameijde is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a partner of Urban Systems Office, London, a practice specialising in generative design processes for architectural and urban applications. Before joining CUHK, he taught at the Architectural Association for 11 years. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Bartlett, University College London, and has organised numerous workshops in collaboration with universities and institutions worldwide. He is a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a registered architect in the UK. Jeroen’s research interests focus on the intersection between urban design and architecture at dense urban locations. He employs “generative design” as a methodology to develop programmatically complex urban and architectural proposals, as well as a value system to evaluate and speculate how these interventions can contribute to the development of the city over time.

Project Progress: International Collaborative Design Workshop

International Collaborative Design Workshop, June 2019. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.

International Collaborative Design Workshop, June 2019. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.

International Collaborative Design Workshop, June 2019. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.

International Collaborative Design Workshop, June 2019. Image courtesy of Jeroen van Ameijde.