The story of a section : designing the Shougang Oxygen Factory / Michele Bonino, Edoardo Bruno, Alessandro Armando, Giovanni Durbiano ; with a contribution by Camilla Forina..
Publisher:
ORO Editions,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
195 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 x 21 cm
Location of publisher obtained from publisher website.
Summary:
This book is an experiment on constructing a text starting exclusively and strictly from the materials of an architectural project. As in an archive, it contains all the documents produced by the design team, which become the only sources of a text that allows the reader to generalize the project?s contents and reflect on its process. An extensive masterplan is transforming the abandoned industrial area of Shougang, on the outskirts of Beijing, into one of the venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics Games. Within this process, the China Room, as a research center of the Politecnico di Torino dedicated to urbanization and architecture in China, was involved by Tsinghua University in the transformation of the former oxygen factory into a visitor center, working on industrial memory as a lever for a renovation of the existing site aimed at the overall sustainability of the masterplan.00The book overviews and analyses the most important steps that transformed initial design intentions into a defined proposal, passing through different solutions, changes, debates, and negotiations among the different stakeholders called into action along the whole process.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.