Document presenting the first phase of research in the framework of my End-of-study project "30's Architecture in Shanghai". Maëlle Cabio'ch : Final-year student at l'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantiques, Space & Transcultural junior designer, based in Shanghai.

1. 30’s architecture in shanghai
Phase 1 - End of Study Project
Maëlle Cabio’ch
October 2014

2. From the past ...
Historical context
My interest
Chinese vision
Nostalgic Shanghai
Government positionning
1
... through the present ...
First exploration
Questionning
Fuzhou building
Composition
Design & Spatial issues
2
... to the future.
Problematic
Project objectives
Network
Axes
Planning
Design positionning
3

3. From the past ...
1

4. review
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the history of the city

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Opium wars
1844

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international settlement and french concession
1931

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japanese invasion & end of the colonies
1937-1941

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mao zhedong & housing property
1949

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Housing crisis
1949
Shanghaistreetstories.com

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socialist market economy
1978

11. define
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30’s architecture in shanghai

12. What people think about shanghai ?
can you describe shanghai in 3 words ?
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concrete dynamic open attractif mix of culture money family famous
architecture passion sensibility ambition hyper transitory Community
beautifuL awestruck ironic sticky pushy fashion facade western
hometown microcosm delusion elegant romance kindly communist
polluted corrupt friends
Shanghainese | Chinese | Foreigners

13. What people think about shanghai ?
can you describe shanghai in 3 words ?
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concrete dynamic open attractif mix of culture money family famous
architecture passion sensibility ambition hyper transitory Community
beautifuL awestruck ironic sticky pushy fashion facade western
hometown microcosm delusion elegant romance kindly communist
polluted corrupt friends
Shanghainese | Chinese | Foreigners

14. awestru
ck
Comm
u
nity
What people think about shanghai ?
choose 1 word to describe shanghai in the list
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Shanghainese | Chinese | Foreigners
hometown
Shanghainese
Chinese
foreigner

15. how can i describe 30’s architecture ?
my point of view on the subject
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16. residential
shipping
offices & banks
industrial
commercial &
small trades
60
9
6 20
25
Regional development
of Shanghai in 1931
%
%
%
%
%
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definition by : the main activities in 30’s building

17. definition by : the principles styles of 30’s architecture
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1840
victorian syle
Gothic revival
Italianate
Second empire
1920
art deco
Sleek lines
Geometric design
Astor House Park Hotel
19th
neo-classical
Power
Stability
Authority
HSBC Building
20th
shikumen lilong
Blocks
Combination East and West
Typical Shanghainese
Hengfeng Lane
shanghaistreetstories
1925
spanish colonial
Rounded arches
Balconies
Spiral columns
Ruijin lu

18. definition by : the principles styles of 30’s architecture
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shanghaistreetstories
Western architectural styles
shanghai
architectural
styles

19. determine
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my interest in this subject

20. my interest in 30’s architecture
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whc.unesco.org
a european vision about heritage architecture protection
chinese and shanghainese people have a different notion of time

21. 30’s architecture in current events
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Xintiandi example
myshanghai.se

22. return
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to the 30’s - nostalgia

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brands and retro marketing
Shanghai Tang

24. Lust, Caution - 2007
In the mood for love - 2000
Shanghai - 2010
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communication

25. 2004
12 conservation areas
27 km²
1994
list of
398‘municipally preserved’
buidlings
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government position
Plaques, lists and protection
Heritage plaque denoting a Municipality Preserved item

26. ... through the present ...
2

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going on
first explorations

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field analysis
Walk tours
conferences
personnal investigation

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first observation
30’s buildings are not adapted
to the modern life of shanghai.

30. expedition
in fuzhou building
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fuzhou buidling former hamilton house

32. 2015 world
congress in shanghaimain activity &
designer sensibility
touristical & most
famous center
building fonction
residential
architecture style
ART DECO
location
bund
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why i choose this buiding ?

33. environment
Huangpu district
huangpu
district
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CBD
traditional central
business district
home of municipal
government
attractive
favorite place of
investors and residents.

34. environment
Huangpu district
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jiangxilu
fuzhou lu
suzhou river
fuzhou lu / former foochow rd
jiangxi lu / former kangse rd

35. environment
Attractif center
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suzhou river
nanjing lu
waitan - bund
nanjing lu
waitan

36. environment
Accessibility
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suzhou river
10
2
subway station
east nanjing
to pudong
international
airport

37. environment
Public parcs
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suzhou river

38. environment
Focus
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suzhou river

39. fuzhou lu
jiangxilu
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environment
Municipal square

40. fuzhou lu
jiangxilu
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environment
Municipal square
1shanghai health
department building

41. fuzhou lu
jiangxilu
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environment
Municipal square
1shanghai health
department building
2
Metropole hotel

42. fuzhou lu
jiangxilu
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environment
Municipal square
1 2
Metropole hotel
3
fuzhou building
shanghai health
department building

43. fuzhou lu
jiangxilu
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environment
Municipal square
1 2
3
fuzhou building
commercial bank
of china
4
Metropole hotel
shanghai health
department building

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architects
Palmer & Turner
Architectural model in 1939 - blanketfort.com

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technology and innovative materials
steel frame
Artifical stone
& granite facing
aeroconcrete
Metropole Hotel under construction - 1931

46. composition
of fuzhou building
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47. composition
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48. composition
Offices
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49. composition
Appartment
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50. composition
Penthouse
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51. composition
Movie
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52. describe
spatial issue in fuzhou building
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53. observations
First questionning
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‘‘I don’t eat in the kitchen.
I prefere to cook my meals there and return to my flat to eat’’
‘‘I just go back to my house to sleep and take a wash.
I always spend the day outside’’
‘‘I don’t know my neighbours,
just the ones who lives in this part of the building’’
Hue, resident in 30’s building
Sunny, resident in 30’s building
Mrs Han, arrived in fuzhou building 25 years ago

54. layout of the appartment floors
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Appartments elevators
corridors stairs

55. corridors
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Corridors
1

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corridors
Heap and congestion

57. corridors
Heap and congestion
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corridors
Details
146cm
61cm
85cm

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corridors
Global impression
appropriation on collectif space
heterogeneous
chaos
difficult circulation

60. lighting
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lighting
2

61. lighting
On the field
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62. lighting
Localisation
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Natural lighting
artificial lighting

63. lighting
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Global impressions
not promote the dialogue
irregularity
shadows places
inequality

64. rooftop
garden elevators
reconstruct stairs
rooftop
3
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65. rooftop
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66. rooftop
Global impression
ignorance of this space
outside / amazing view
not infrastructure
Loosing collectif space
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67. kitchen
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kitchen
4

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kitchen
Make an assessment

69. kitchen
Details floor plan
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cooktop
storage
58cm
82cm

70. kitchen
Global impression
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circulation space
kitchen = Meeting place
chaotic organization
Not adapted to the talk

71. empty spaces
Movie
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MovieMovie
empty spaces
5

72. empty spaces
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73. empty space
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Detail floor plan

74. empty space
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Detail floor plan

75. lighting
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Movie
bring light into private spaces
no useful
center localisation
circulation area

76. ... to the future.
3

77. make out
a design report
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78. analysis on my researches
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neighboorhood
experiences and values
spaces doesn’t used
no neutral public spaces
chaotic stockage organization
no meeting areas

79. problematic
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How to improve the collective life in 30’s heritage buildings
by developing interaction between inhabitants ?

80. design positionning
on a space project
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81. design positionning and project’s objective
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improve the understanding, the meeting
and the integration of inhabitants
bring modernity in heritage building
help to the appropriation of the building by residents
make the place alive

82. levers for innovation
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innovative materials
a sensitive approach
new experience of collective life
creative way to share and meet with neighbourhood

83. networking
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cao mengqin mrs. Cao
lynn pan
john
architects
Archivist
han jianar
Residents
comittee
members
neighbours
Resident in
Fuzhou building
Searcher
& Resident
Resident
Writer

84. my design
reflexions
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85. research axes
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Create an unique meeting and resting place
Bring interaction in front of the door.
redesign the common space that is the kitchen
1
2
3

86. axe 1
create an unique meeting
and restinG place
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87. create an unique meeting and resting place
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Falling Garden, Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger

88. create an unique meeting and resting place
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‘‘Cilia’’ 3D printedAnish KapoorIsabel LeMay
innovative material and patternorganic environmentfocus on nature

89. axe 2
bring interaction in
front of the door
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90. Bring interaction in front of the door
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude ‘‘Big Air Package’’

91. Bring interaction in front of the door
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Daan RoosegaardeMartine Feipel & Jean BechameilPainted Floor
lighting innovationsensitive environmentidentity and visual guide

92. axe 3
redesign the common
space that is the kitchen
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93. redesign the common space that is the kitchen
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‘‘a house is a machine for living in.’’
Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture, 1923
Olafur Eliasson

94. redesign the common space that is the kitchen
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Motoi YamamotoElisa StrozykUnknown photograph
rethink the circulationmodularity
collective experience
between generations

95. next step
in the project
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96. planning
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shanghai art
deco week-end
networking
development
start the
experimentations
feedbacks on my
concepts
phase 1
feedbacks
phase 2
1st November
Conferences Creative concepts
Meetings Reinvent the user
scenario
Walks
Architects
Residents
Residents point
of view

97. thank you

98. axes sum up
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Create an unique
meeting and resting place
Bring interaction
in front of the door
redesign the place
that is the kitchen
1 2 3