City Design (MA)
Peng Peng
Peng Peng is MA City Design student graduate at Royal College of Art, School of Architecture 2020. He is from China and graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, City Design faculty and majored in space design. He won a prize in the works of students’ annual painting at the countryside and field trip study. His undergraduate project focused on the regeneration and activation of urban public spaces in his hometown, a county in the south of China, for an experimental design of the county museum. He got a scholarship to study in the city of Melbourne while studying at the Royal College of Art.
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His current design is focused on the topic of “Sick City” research which is based on the psychological and physical health problems caused by the lag development of housing in the UK. In the process of urban transformation, residents’ housing fails to meet the needs of residents for new lifestyles. In the context of urban ageing, his graduation project propose the "KITFO+" strategy to provide care space for elderly patients with chronic kidney disease around their homes. Also it is a new working and social idea for urban residents, so as to accelerate the renewal of urban space. He proposed a "Liberty City" as the solution to realise the "KITFO+" unit strategy. It reorganises and provides an open and liberty plan for the urban public space from original urban form and traditional functional city spaces, especially the ground floor. Although there are considerable policy challenges, the tradeoffs between design and policy need to be a compromise. Especially in developing countries, cities are under growing. The seriousness of urban problems and the instability of policies will generate great resistance, but these two opposing aspects provide a strong foundation and a huge challenge for future studies. His ambition is to destroy the existing structures of urban space, including office space, schools, shopping malls and housings, as these urban spaces can be totally reorganised based on the idea of "Liberty City" with "KITFO+" likely units.
Ground floor
Overview
West view
Inside Therater view
Typology
Block Scale
Room Scale
Kitfo+ Concept
Liberty City
Liberty Tower Ground
liberty tower
This research addresses ageing in the UK. By analysing the challenges of residential housing conditions in Wood Green and the presence of bed-blocking faced by the NHS. The purpose of this study is to provide food therapy at an interim care space for the elderly with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Chronic kidney disease in the elderly is the principal cause of bed-blocking and one of the most demanding problems of the NHS.
Wood Green as a design site located in north central London. Given “KITFO+” as a design strategy and proposes an idea of 'Liberty City' to reverse the general loss of food knowledge in Britain and the health problems caused by decreased cooking creating a kitchen crisis.
Three main features of the design idea:
1: Patients and residents’ needs will be moved from relying on hospitals and GPs doctors to relying on residents and the guidance of chefs.
2: The design will mainly provide a space for food, which is ready to cook rather than ready-to-eat.
3: The space will allow residents to grow, pick and recycle food during social time with the help of chefs and volunteers.
'LIBERTY CITY' addresses the ground floor space to allow residents to interact with each other in the process of food production, consumption and recycling. This model can be extended throughout the city to provide a new model of partially self-sufficient food growing, food consumption and recycling for city dwellers.
Two main features of designed space:
1: Fuzzy spaces boundary, everyone can share and claim every corner.
2: Furniture and spaces are fixed. Because of the needs of food, residents will actively find food in different places in the city, which depends on where and when food can be sown, grown and picked.
Wood Green as a design site located in north central London. Given “KITFO+” as a design strategy and proposes an idea of 'Liberty City' to reverse the general loss of food knowledge in Britain and the health problems caused by decreased cooking creating a kitchen crisis.
Three main features of the design idea:
1: Patients and residents’ needs will be moved from relying on hospitals and GPs doctors to relying on residents and the guidance of chefs.
2: The design will mainly provide a space for food, which is ready to cook rather than ready-to-eat.
3: The space will allow residents to grow, pick and recycle food during social time with the help of chefs and volunteers.
'LIBERTY CITY' addresses the ground floor space to allow residents to interact with each other in the process of food production, consumption and recycling. This model can be extended throughout the city to provide a new model of partially self-sufficient food growing, food consumption and recycling for city dwellers.
Two main features of designed space:
1: Fuzzy spaces boundary, everyone can share and claim every corner.
2: Furniture and spaces are fixed. Because of the needs of food, residents will actively find food in different places in the city, which depends on where and when food can be sown, grown and picked.
Block Scale Comparing
Brough Scale Research
Housing Scale Comparing
Failed Design Attemptation
Final Design Work Ground Floor
Final Design Second Floor
Final Design Perspective View
The purpose of this project is to address the challenges of the ageing problem faced by the UK health care system from an architectural perspective.
Through this research, which found that bed-blocking is an extremely demanding problem. The study of Wood Green revealed that elderly in housing and urban environments are isolated within city, block and housing scale respectively which cause elderly people difficulty in accessing care nearby them. This not only caused health problems, but also shopping issues, and influenced the infection rate hinted at Covid-19 as well.
The main research content examined three aspects: the analysis of hospital, GP surgery and residential building spaces. It found that hospitals have sufficient capacity to provide nursing professional care, but due to the long-term delay of elderly discharge, it affects the NHS care resources allocation and the provision of hospital beds to allow timely hospitalization of other patients.
This study tentatively completed the design of the housing, providing interim care places between the hospital and home for the elderly who can be discharged in advance and sick elderly where it is not necessary to get acute care. Finding local land plans and NHS policy, use the local nursing resources and social public facilities to give care and help the elderly to acquire life skills and a better recovery.
The basic conclusion is that in London and throughout the UK, housing implies issues of health, shopping activities, and the allocation and sharing of care and facility resources. This study proposes a new perspective for examination. Create more attempts to get more participation and actively be taken care of in urban fabrics for elderly people.
Another significance of this study is that to provide an interim care form, spaces are designed for different conditions and play a common role in the urban network. It can be provided for normal people to use, and provides long-term care for people self-care. While building a nursing village, it can provide continuous and sustainable care for all people.
The shortcomings of this study: firstly, how to establish a care living space suitable for both at home and collective life in housing. Secondly, the space facilities that are directly helpful for health and care for elderly have not tapped the potential to play its role and how to effectively share such space and other spaces.
Through this research, which found that bed-blocking is an extremely demanding problem. The study of Wood Green revealed that elderly in housing and urban environments are isolated within city, block and housing scale respectively which cause elderly people difficulty in accessing care nearby them. This not only caused health problems, but also shopping issues, and influenced the infection rate hinted at Covid-19 as well.
The main research content examined three aspects: the analysis of hospital, GP surgery and residential building spaces. It found that hospitals have sufficient capacity to provide nursing professional care, but due to the long-term delay of elderly discharge, it affects the NHS care resources allocation and the provision of hospital beds to allow timely hospitalization of other patients.
This study tentatively completed the design of the housing, providing interim care places between the hospital and home for the elderly who can be discharged in advance and sick elderly where it is not necessary to get acute care. Finding local land plans and NHS policy, use the local nursing resources and social public facilities to give care and help the elderly to acquire life skills and a better recovery.
The basic conclusion is that in London and throughout the UK, housing implies issues of health, shopping activities, and the allocation and sharing of care and facility resources. This study proposes a new perspective for examination. Create more attempts to get more participation and actively be taken care of in urban fabrics for elderly people.
Another significance of this study is that to provide an interim care form, spaces are designed for different conditions and play a common role in the urban network. It can be provided for normal people to use, and provides long-term care for people self-care. While building a nursing village, it can provide continuous and sustainable care for all people.
The shortcomings of this study: firstly, how to establish a care living space suitable for both at home and collective life in housing. Secondly, the space facilities that are directly helpful for health and care for elderly have not tapped the potential to play its role and how to effectively share such space and other spaces.
This video analyzes one of my dreams on the night of 05/02/2020, which according to psychologist Sigmund Freud's theory that dreams are wish-fulfillment of our life and Carl Gustav Jung's theory that dreams are our subconscious state of mind in need of balance.
Following Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung's theory, with this video I try to find another ourselves through my dream and try to experimentally interpret ourselves through dreams using real scenarios and find new explanations.
I had this dream early morning around 3am-4am, I was woken up by the noise of my roommate who came back from the bar. Immediately I wrote down this dream. The content of my whole dream which I can remember is divided into 6 parts. The arrangement is based on the time sequence of plots in my dream rather than the development followed by the place which can make it easier to understand.
Dreams are invisible mirrors in which we can find our real-selves. The materials in dreams are often replaced or changed for the realisation of our desires in real life. We need to carefully consider and discover the relationship. The composition materials may be our spirit willings that emerged recently or many years ago and accompanied wishes solid deep in our hearts. Dream is the true self in life, including our personality and expectations and desires. Through the analysis of dreams, we can correct our psychological contradictions and clarify our shortcomings. But the most important point is that we must honestly face all the contents and actively analyse the potentially subconscious thoughts.
Following Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung's theory, with this video I try to find another ourselves through my dream and try to experimentally interpret ourselves through dreams using real scenarios and find new explanations.
I had this dream early morning around 3am-4am, I was woken up by the noise of my roommate who came back from the bar. Immediately I wrote down this dream. The content of my whole dream which I can remember is divided into 6 parts. The arrangement is based on the time sequence of plots in my dream rather than the development followed by the place which can make it easier to understand.
Dreams are invisible mirrors in which we can find our real-selves. The materials in dreams are often replaced or changed for the realisation of our desires in real life. We need to carefully consider and discover the relationship. The composition materials may be our spirit willings that emerged recently or many years ago and accompanied wishes solid deep in our hearts. Dream is the true self in life, including our personality and expectations and desires. Through the analysis of dreams, we can correct our psychological contradictions and clarify our shortcomings. But the most important point is that we must honestly face all the contents and actively analyse the potentially subconscious thoughts.
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1840 London Slum Time
1850 Satisfaction of Working Class
1890 Four Stages of Housing Plan
1910 Housing Transition
1940 Spain Casa Bloc
1960 New London Housing and Plan
1980 High Rise and Low Density in London
2010 Riverside Apartment in Lime Housing
2016 Spain Resilient City Barcelona
2018 La Borda New Type of Co Living
This is an essay practice.
The purpose of this study is to find out how neighbours have behaved in housing since the mid-19th century globally. In order to provide a housing design process of neighborhood thinking and give effective evidence and solutions. The importance of neighborhood has been given more and more attention in contemporary community life. The different understanding of the concept of neighbourhood also leads to different schemes and results in design proposals by different architects and decision makers.
This research mainly analyzes 10 cases, 1: London slums time in the middle of 19th century, throughout the London’s Victorian housing policy, the performance of the neighbourhood. 2: In 1850 London working-class housing demand in a period of rapid population growth of society and the processing of policy. 3: Then mainly focus on the end of 19th century housing design under the four different neighbourhood relationships with a new indication of the shortcomings. 4,5: London 1910 high- rise housing echoing housing in Spain in 1940 collective housing that public spaces commonly used in two examples. 6,7: The boom in high- rise housing in London in the 1960s and the failure of neighbourhood relations at a low point. Since 1980, however, 8: the housing began to shift from the design of the physical environment to collective concern about the quality of life, improving residents’ attempts to live together. 8, 9, 10: In 2010 the new organisation mechanism-Task Force and 2016 super block as well as the 2018 La Borda in Spain, housing designers were trying to find land and policy opportunities to display the new model which applied and copied in the city. Those ambitions are collective self care to reflect new social problems. What this research finds is that housing reform always most influenced by policy process. However, policies does not actively guide to ideal community neighborhood relationship. Architects need to seek opportunities in policy, and analyze the requirements and characteristics of community residents, and take generational problems of different ages into consideration and study under the city, and also think about previous cases and the comparison of social problems from other places of local area and other nations.
This study provides a reflection on the possibility of housing in the future in terms of neighborhood relations, as well as sorting out of housing and neighborhood relations in terms of policies, economy and residents' needs in the past.
The purpose of this study is to find out how neighbours have behaved in housing since the mid-19th century globally. In order to provide a housing design process of neighborhood thinking and give effective evidence and solutions. The importance of neighborhood has been given more and more attention in contemporary community life. The different understanding of the concept of neighbourhood also leads to different schemes and results in design proposals by different architects and decision makers.
This research mainly analyzes 10 cases, 1: London slums time in the middle of 19th century, throughout the London’s Victorian housing policy, the performance of the neighbourhood. 2: In 1850 London working-class housing demand in a period of rapid population growth of society and the processing of policy. 3: Then mainly focus on the end of 19th century housing design under the four different neighbourhood relationships with a new indication of the shortcomings. 4,5: London 1910 high- rise housing echoing housing in Spain in 1940 collective housing that public spaces commonly used in two examples. 6,7: The boom in high- rise housing in London in the 1960s and the failure of neighbourhood relations at a low point. Since 1980, however, 8: the housing began to shift from the design of the physical environment to collective concern about the quality of life, improving residents’ attempts to live together. 8, 9, 10: In 2010 the new organisation mechanism-Task Force and 2016 super block as well as the 2018 La Borda in Spain, housing designers were trying to find land and policy opportunities to display the new model which applied and copied in the city. Those ambitions are collective self care to reflect new social problems. What this research finds is that housing reform always most influenced by policy process. However, policies does not actively guide to ideal community neighborhood relationship. Architects need to seek opportunities in policy, and analyze the requirements and characteristics of community residents, and take generational problems of different ages into consideration and study under the city, and also think about previous cases and the comparison of social problems from other places of local area and other nations.
This study provides a reflection on the possibility of housing in the future in terms of neighborhood relations, as well as sorting out of housing and neighborhood relations in terms of policies, economy and residents' needs in the past.
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Essay, Images
Literature Reference Architecture Order
London Slum Time Housing Order
One of Cambridge Housing Order Image
One of Cambridge Housing Order
This is a dissertation practice.
The order of housing research tries to provide a new perspective to get a clearer perspective on the issue of housing and the social environment which is associated with it. Use the housing case under the Victorian social environment in London to summarise and integrate the order of the relationship between housing and society. Then look at how the government policy interferes with housing, and through the concept of order to test its effectiveness and applicability, and provide a theory for seeking a more direct solution to urban housing problems. This study also tries to give more open topics for the thinking of housing in future developments.
From the definition of linguistics and music order, putting its principle into the social context. Which can work out the framework of order and three elements of order: foundations; rules; purposes. Secondly, use those three elements to promote the development of housing within two orders: PURPOSEFULNESS ORDER and FLEXIBILITY ORDER. Thirdly, divide the case of the social and housing situation of the Victorian housing into seven aspects to refine the related relationship between housing and environment in that period. Moreover, to verify this conclusion, a reasonable case of Malcolm and Manor Places at Cambridge in London, which has two phases of buildings are suitable to show the evidence of this research, helping to find out the correlation between the two orders summarised. The Victorian and Cambridge cases selected in this study may have some defects, but there are indelible contributions in the explanation of order.
The order of housing research tries to provide a new perspective to get a clearer perspective on the issue of housing and the social environment which is associated with it. Use the housing case under the Victorian social environment in London to summarise and integrate the order of the relationship between housing and society. Then look at how the government policy interferes with housing, and through the concept of order to test its effectiveness and applicability, and provide a theory for seeking a more direct solution to urban housing problems. This study also tries to give more open topics for the thinking of housing in future developments.
From the definition of linguistics and music order, putting its principle into the social context. Which can work out the framework of order and three elements of order: foundations; rules; purposes. Secondly, use those three elements to promote the development of housing within two orders: PURPOSEFULNESS ORDER and FLEXIBILITY ORDER. Thirdly, divide the case of the social and housing situation of the Victorian housing into seven aspects to refine the related relationship between housing and environment in that period. Moreover, to verify this conclusion, a reasonable case of Malcolm and Manor Places at Cambridge in London, which has two phases of buildings are suitable to show the evidence of this research, helping to find out the correlation between the two orders summarised. The Victorian and Cambridge cases selected in this study may have some defects, but there are indelible contributions in the explanation of order.