City Design (MA)
Jiahe Ma
Jiahe Ma is an MA City Design graduate from the Royal College of Art. After completing her undergraduate study in Landscape Design at Beijing city University, China.
During the study at RCA,term one to term three design studio research projects are mainly based on the current situation of the affordable housing, and NHS key worker housing issues in Wood Green, London. More specific, critically considered the possibility of future collective life-affordable public space used models from different scales. With regard to her IRP, the research direction from term oneto term three will be continued to conduct more research on affordable housing,so as to provide better design and solutions for residents with low income and poor public environment.
In 2020 she participated in Barcelona field trips, she visited social housing and public cultural facilities in Barcelona through field trips and international workshops,proposing Social glue as affordable housing mediation provide public space ideas from the perspectives of social care combined with previous architectural typological research.
In addition, she is keen on participating in the activities of the Students' Union of the school and participated in the establishment of the first RCA Spring Festival Gala in early 2020.
Throughout her 15 months in RCA studied, Jiahe has continuously explored other ways to understand the relationship between people，architecture and the city. Studying in a foreign country and language significantly developed her independence and mature attitude which, she believe, will become an asset to her learning in the UK. Also，the education in British institution would remarkably
broaden her horizons to Western approach in city design, which, in combination with her previously obtained knowledge and experience in Eastern countries,would endow with a valuable ability of innovative synthesis. Thus, RCA studied,well known for its deep expertise, proficient teaching staff and excellent facilities, is a highly desirable place for Jiahe.
Winston Churchill once emphasised the fact that “we shape our buildings,thereafter they shape us”. In her mind, these buildings personify and embody the diverse cultures that exist today, reflecting the power and endless potential of man’s genius. Self expression is what differentiates us as an individual.
Origin platfprm-public space used — Since there was no extra space to support their activities, they began to build balconies as a platform for their activities. For example: hang clothes, chat, read books and so on. However, although each family has an independent balcony as the area of activities, there is still no contact between each other, no interaction, and the scope of activities is very limited, many people who live alone still feel lonely.
placemaking/Shared Community — In this solution, the platform is used through mutual consultation between neighbors and is adjusted and used according to the diversified functional requirements of the space. Platform Spaces can also be divided through negotiation to meet the different needs of various community activities. For example, through negotiation, neighbors decided to use part of the platform to hang clothes, so as to promote their mutual affection in the process of communication. In addition, according to the simplest population distribution of young, middle-aged, and old people to form different combinations of use. Different model platforms are available in the middle of the morning, noon and evening. The activity of space will change accordingly. But in any case, the problem will be negotiated to reach the best solution to achieve Shared space and raise the social awareness of local residents.
PUBLIC SPACE ARRANGEMENT — Balcony spaces overlap to become a collective community. Spatial autonomy of the residents. Placemaking studies the people demand on public space level and activity of complex hierarchical, the hierarchical functional requirements have their respective characters.
PUBLIC SPACE ARRANGEMENT2 — with the activities of the residential personal needs, the balcony around the corridor could spread throughout affordable housing, potentially public space into a much larger community of both design and collective. But at the same time, the size of these collective public Spaces is very important. Old people like to pass the time by sitting or walking. They have the opportunity to interact with friends and feel relaxed. On the other hand, public space serves as a way to create a peaceful and healthy environment with fresh air around. One of the main problems in urban areas is that they are too noisy and crowded and everyone is rushing all the time, so people try to find some time to stop their daily chores and do what they want freely. The structural development and location of these collective Spaces depend on the size of each affordable house and the preferences of its inhabitants.
SOCIAL GLUE PLATFORM — Over a longer period of time, the balcony platform might expand into the frame in a more permanent way depending on the needs of the community. the flexible nature of the circulation layer means that it can easily be modified to create new public space that will link the dwelling or new parts of the corridors.
This report explores the relationship between public space and the living environment of affordable housing in London. Such housing in Britain’s capital city is affected by many problems, including inefficient public space resourcing, which undermines the quality of life for local residents.
Architects and local authorities have a moral duty of ensuring that public spaces in residential areas are designed and maintained in such a way that they are functional and easily accessible to the public so that they do not become blighted by damage and neglect. Careful provision and design of public spaces, especially in areas with ‘social’ and ‘affordable’ housing, leaves visitors and local residents with a positive impression of the city. Public spaces have a strong influence on the quality of life and emotions of city residents. Access to open public grounds for recreation is an indispensable part of modern life.
London is the largest conurbation in Britain, and like many metropolises is characterized by intensive land use, with real estate, transport networks, and other large infrastructures competing for space. Trellick Tower in Kensington is a fairly typical, heavily built-up London residential area, for which architects and local city planners need to deliver more imaginative solutions for the limited space which has not yet been built upon.
Architects and local authorities have a moral duty of ensuring that public spaces in residential areas are designed and maintained in such a way that they are functional and easily accessible to the public so that they do not become blighted by damage and neglect. Careful provision and design of public spaces, especially in areas with ‘social’ and ‘affordable’ housing, leaves visitors and local residents with a positive impression of the city. Public spaces have a strong influence on the quality of life and emotions of city residents. Access to open public grounds for recreation is an indispensable part of modern life.
London is the largest conurbation in Britain, and like many metropolises is characterized by intensive land use, with real estate, transport networks, and other large infrastructures competing for space. Trellick Tower in Kensington is a fairly typical, heavily built-up London residential area, for which architects and local city planners need to deliver more imaginative solutions for the limited space which has not yet been built upon.
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Key Worker affordable housing
This strategy attempts to start with the relationship between medical services and key worker housing. Due to British medical services are facing economic and manpower shortages, and the hospital’s population service pressure is too great, bringing a series of urban problems. The main reason is that the salary of nurses can not afford their housing problems, so the hospital is facing insufficient manpower.
This project explores key workers (nurses) in NHS their affordable housing. We want to improve the basic stress (nurse) of NHS-keyworker (nurse) life (housing) and more people in need to get effective treatment, thereby improving the pressure and atmosphere of life in the entire city.
How can we satisfy the relationship between the two and let them take care of each other?
The Haringey area in north London is the experimental base for this strategy. We are trying to start with how to provide a new choice for key workers in the area-housing and analyze how it works and the challenges it faces.
Therefore, we analyzed the Haringey site and compared it on three different scales with cases in other projects of the world, trying to come up with a new vision of urban living space in order to improve human-to-human communication to promote the mental health of the population, reduce the consumption of medical services and improve the efficiency of services.
This project explores key workers (nurses) in NHS their affordable housing. We want to improve the basic stress (nurse) of NHS-keyworker (nurse) life (housing) and more people in need to get effective treatment, thereby improving the pressure and atmosphere of life in the entire city.
How can we satisfy the relationship between the two and let them take care of each other?
The Haringey area in north London is the experimental base for this strategy. We are trying to start with how to provide a new choice for key workers in the area-housing and analyze how it works and the challenges it faces.
Therefore, we analyzed the Haringey site and compared it on three different scales with cases in other projects of the world, trying to come up with a new vision of urban living space in order to improve human-to-human communication to promote the mental health of the population, reduce the consumption of medical services and improve the efficiency of services.
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Key Worker’s Housing
Rebuild one Victorian Terraced Housing. And then, with the continuous increase of rebuilt houses will be formed a community, a collective economic community to provide more key workers in the future.
In the vision of the city in the future, we try to propose a new model of urban organization-it that will consist of multiple square-based grids, each of which includes basic functions of human life, which expand outward from the residence center, while ad- jacent grids share a set of services. The outermost three layers of the adjacent two basic square grids coincide with each other and share the land. This distribution pattern allows different class residential areas to use resources relatively equally.
In addition, the central residence is equipped with the corresponding basic services necessary for life, such as medical, retail, education, etc. The outer land is occupied by factories, commerce, etc. Under the basis of the basic functional distribution model, the specific urban growth trajectory is determined by the user himself. They can arrange and reorganize the functions of various service facilities according to actual needs and land conditions. This bottom-up strategy is designed to give residents a greater degree of freedom, allowing them to select facilities according to their actual needs and try to achieve a certain degree of cost savings.
In the cities of the future, in the face of the inequality of living caused by the gradual shortage of resources, we advocate the self-sustaining sustainable urban model to achieve the goal of saving resources and reducing the cost of living. We believe that with the increase in the population and the number of families in London, providing London residents with more housing, especially affordable housing to meet their requirements for high-quality housing and perfect social infrastructure has become the core of the city of London.
In the vision of the city in the future, we try to propose a new model of urban organization-it that will consist of multiple square-based grids, each of which includes basic functions of human life, which expand outward from the residence center, while ad- jacent grids share a set of services. The outermost three layers of the adjacent two basic square grids coincide with each other and share the land. This distribution pattern allows different class residential areas to use resources relatively equally.
In addition, the central residence is equipped with the corresponding basic services necessary for life, such as medical, retail, education, etc. The outer land is occupied by factories, commerce, etc. Under the basis of the basic functional distribution model, the specific urban growth trajectory is determined by the user himself. They can arrange and reorganize the functions of various service facilities according to actual needs and land conditions. This bottom-up strategy is designed to give residents a greater degree of freedom, allowing them to select facilities according to their actual needs and try to achieve a certain degree of cost savings.
In the cities of the future, in the face of the inequality of living caused by the gradual shortage of resources, we advocate the self-sustaining sustainable urban model to achieve the goal of saving resources and reducing the cost of living. We believe that with the increase in the population and the number of families in London, providing London residents with more housing, especially affordable housing to meet their requirements for high-quality housing and perfect social infrastructure has become the core of the city of London.
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Global warming is already an important issue in the world. Some of the causes of global warming are caused by people driving cars, excessive felling of trees, and exhaust gases from factories.
In fact, the clothing that accompanies us day and night is the second-largest source of pollution in the world after the oil industry. People don’t see a connection between our daily wear and global warming. Our clothes, pants, shoes, accessories, etc. How much freshwater does this consume and how much pollution does it create? Using social software photos show people’s daily outfits through tagged pollution elements. Expressed directly through in a visual way. How many resources need to be utilized shopping has become a way of life, a weekly pastime, and an addiction to many people. The fashion industry also changes with the seasons. However, fast fashion changes weekly and the cost is low. It will not be worn once or twice. By wearing pollution labels on the everyday clothes behind beauty, it warns people that their behavior is also affecting global warming.
In this project “ootd” means outfit of the day. ‘ootd’ has been hailed by many young people (fashionable fashionists). It can also get a lot of inspiration through a person’s wear. They are in the process of enjoying the mix, which can make them rich every day. I want to show everyone’s requirements for clothing and their own dressing attitude through photos. This is because I find that the current trend of fashion retail is generating great demand for fast and cheap clothes, which is a huge problem.
THIS STAND ONE EXHIBITION WILL WHY IT IS POSSIBLE OF THE WEALTHIEST HELP US FOR THIS NATIONS ALL UNDERTOW HAPPEN IN IN THE WORLD.
In fact, the clothing that accompanies us day and night is the second-largest source of pollution in the world after the oil industry. People don’t see a connection between our daily wear and global warming. Our clothes, pants, shoes, accessories, etc. How much freshwater does this consume and how much pollution does it create? Using social software photos show people’s daily outfits through tagged pollution elements. Expressed directly through in a visual way. How many resources need to be utilized shopping has become a way of life, a weekly pastime, and an addiction to many people. The fashion industry also changes with the seasons. However, fast fashion changes weekly and the cost is low. It will not be worn once or twice. By wearing pollution labels on the everyday clothes behind beauty, it warns people that their behavior is also affecting global warming.
In this project “ootd” means outfit of the day. ‘ootd’ has been hailed by many young people (fashionable fashionists). It can also get a lot of inspiration through a person’s wear. They are in the process of enjoying the mix, which can make them rich every day. I want to show everyone’s requirements for clothing and their own dressing attitude through photos. This is because I find that the current trend of fashion retail is generating great demand for fast and cheap clothes, which is a huge problem.
THIS STAND ONE EXHIBITION WILL WHY IT IS POSSIBLE OF THE WEALTHIEST HELP US FOR THIS NATIONS ALL UNDERTOW HAPPEN IN IN THE WORLD.