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DESIGN STATEMENT

Resilience by Design, Resolution by Mixed-use

During the Covid-19 epidemic, the efficiency of supply delivery has become a key factor affecting the quality of quarantine. The reality is that the most efficient road in the city——elevated roads, is completely vacant because it has not established effective contact with its surrounding buildings, and it has brought a lot of trouble to its surrounding buildings as well. Residents’ life will be challenged due to the lack of supply. At this time, if such buildings can transform their passive status into a supply terminal, then they can quickly receive necessary supplies and can flexibly solve urban problems at the same time. Eventually such terminals will bring about a “Resolution” in a “Resilience” and become a new urban architectural prototype to fix problems caused by elevated roads.

The new architectural prototype is designed to create a new prototype for population- concentrated apartments during the epidemic, and at the same time provide a positive solution for the renovation of buildings by the elevated roads. The prototype is abstracted into three parts: plaza, portico, and complex. The “plaza” intends to provide a more spacious ground for pedestrians and better ventilation. The middle part is transformed into a “portico” and a parking lot, which will serve the people in the new building and neighbors while being connected to the elevated roads. The top part is transformed into a complex, which can provide services for the users and radiate the surrounding people. In this way, users can live comfortably and freely during quarantine time.

In conclusion, the renovation of the mofang apartment will become a “Resilience” by design that can cope with specific problems and will be universally applied to other buildings in similar situations. Such prototype will handle such disadvantages, and serve people's life better.