DIY BEIJING 01




EXHIBITION

SS 15

Since the early 1980’s, Bei­jing’s urban struc­ture has heav­ily changed. One of the less known phe­nom­e­nons is the trans­for­ma­tion of the Dan­wei set­tle­ments of the 1950’s to the 1980’s. Upon the open­ing of the dis­tricts to­wards the sur­round­ing urban spaces, the char­ac­ter of the places changed se­verely. In­stead of dis­tance and dec­o­ra­tive spaces, street and square spaces have emerged.

The po­ten­tial of these col­lec­tively cre­ated urban spaces is being de­picted by se­lected case stud­ies based draw­ings, pho­tographs and in­ter­views.

The ex­am­ples il­lus­trate dif­fer­ent ap­proaches of the de­vel­op­ment of mono­func­tional set­tle­ments to­wards mixed-use dis­tricts. Yet they also show the stake­hold­ers’ tal­ent for self-or­gan­i­sa­tion and im­pro­vi­sa­tion.

Lo­ca­tionKaiser­slautern
Cat­e­goriesEx­hi­bi­tion, DIY