RS1: The Lithium Triangle
Barry (Feng Xiao)
Working as an architect, Barry took part in a wide range of design projects, including hospitals, residence communities, and the commercial complex. Barry’s professional experience has shaped the way he approaches architecture and the urban environment.
Barry’s research interests lie mainly in inclusive design within the architectural environment. He explored this theme further in his thesis project - Can inclusive design in the urban environment change modern working life, which uses the basic principles of cognitive neuroscience to explain the physiological and psychological basis of people's environmental experience, and further analyze the relationship between the environment and people's thoughts and behaviors. Finally, the project reveals how inclusive design in the urban environment changes people's work and life from two aspects: psychological cognition and behavioral norms. This thesis has been awarded a Distinction by the Royal College of Art.
Whilst Barry has more than ten years experience in planning and designing hospital spaces, after experiencing the global pandemic, he thinks it is necessary to rethink the inclusiveness of the entire medical built environment. And so, he hopes to focus his research on an inclusive design for the environment of hospitals.
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Reconstructing the Ecological Community
In Tulor
Traditional economic activities of human beings usually focus only on economic efficiency, resource allocation, profit. Their purpose is to pursue unlimited economic growth and maximize the satisfaction of self-interests. This kind of economic activity contrary to the basic laws of the natural ecosystem is the real root of the overall ecological crisis and the economic crisis of human society.
The Tulor community of Chile is located in an area where large-scale tourism and mining development conflicts with indigenous communities over land tenure, access to water, control of heritage sites, as well as environmental protection. Faced with the dilemma between economic development and ecological protection, Tulor needs a new model of green economic development.
Based on field visits and interviews with various local people, this project further analyzes the problems and opportunities faced by the Tulor community in the process of economic development. Based on the design of community public space, this project proposes an economic development model combining ecological community life experience with environmental protection.
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