Xisi Bei Development Competition
Beijing
The project proposal used a traditional system of urban organisation as a basis and starting point for the reinterpretation and growth of Xisi Bei Area which is one of the 25 hutong protected zones in central Beijing.
Full Description
Xisi Bei district is one of the 25 hutong protected zones in Central Beijing and as such is subjected to this development pressure that is leading its “siheyuan” typology into extinction with the traditional urban life being reduced and in certain cases eliminated. The project proposal attempts to use this traditional system of urban organization as a basis and starting point for the reinterpretation and growth of Xisi Bei area. This is achieved through building a catalogue of a generative typology of four- combine- gardens upon the concept of probability, consequently breeding a wide domain of modular arrangement onto the block of Xisi Bei.
Team
Groundlab
Status
Competition. Concept Masterplan.
Client
Beijing Urban Development Bureau