Bringing “Wetness” Back into the City

 

Personal Info

Name: Lok Tim Chan

Nationality: Hong Kong SAR

Institution / Company: Cornell University

Instagram: just_tim_1337

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lok-tim-chan-18b0ba145/

 

Name: Zhenrui Mei

Nationality: China

Institution / Company: Cornell University

 

Name: Xingjian Wang

Nationality: China

Institution / Company: Cornell University

 

-HONOURABLE MENTION of Non Architecture Award 2022 Competition | Category: Urban & Landscape

 

Project Description:

This project in its ambition to tackle complexities in the wicked problem of undesirable “dryness” that persists in Barcelona’s post-industrial waterfronts and urban fringes, aims to leverage the concept of “wetness” in its various interpretations and representations to reimagine a better future by building resiliency, vitality, and adaptability. Through rigorous cross-scale analytical processes to unfold the multidimensional existing qualities surrounding the site and its larger regional settings, a robust design inventory and strategy systems through typological investigation as well as articulated spatial manipulation, and orientation are distilled to address the issues at hand. In its essence, the design uses a diverse yet interconnected set of tools in an attempt to reach a level of comprehensivity that begins to resolve the different “dryness” in social, economic, ecological, geographical, and infrastructural terms under a dynamic urban scale inclusive of a waterfront, riverscape and urban center. It is a design by inquiry, through research, realized via investigation, and expanded from exploration and projection.

 

Project Type:

 

Regional Masterplanning

Coastal, river, and urban revitalization