非常感谢设计方马千程

Appreciation towards Qiancheng Ma for providing the following description:

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来自中国的东南大学学生团队获得在日本举办的国际建筑师协会UIA2011东京大会的学生竞赛金奖。

恭喜你们。

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Team: Qiancheng Ma, Lin Zhao, Wei Zuo, Xiaoxue Xu (Southeast University) We wish more students can participate in UIA student competition through our works.

Competition Background:Today, Japan is facing drastic transformations in the domains of politics, society and the economy. In the disciplines of Architecture and Urban Engineering, there are a variety of controversies regarding how to cope with the post-urban growth era and environmental preservation, and how to promote the engagement of community residents into planning.

Especially, in these fields, we are on the cusp of a new era; e.g. transfer of various authorities to local governments, urban shrinking caused by a combination of the declining birthrate and aging population, and private sector increasingly taking the initiative in public projects (utilization of the private sector’s capabilities). These macro scale transformations (administrative systems) are progressing in the social and industrial spheres, and by the year 2050 we can expect a considerable degree of realization of the transformations in the real world.

In the Student Design Competition, urban engineering and architecture plans geared for 2050 for the greater Kasumigaura urban area in the southern Ibaragi prefecture, and Tsukuba, Tsuchiura and Inashiki, the principal cities in the area, are expected, as the area has noteworthy characteristics in Japan, the host country of the 2011 UIA Congress. The region is located within a 60km radius of the global city of Tokyo. Proposals for a new urban area are expected, which take into consideration how the metamorphosing capital, Tokyo, affects the region. Also, to what extent the concept of “Smart Region” and “Smart City” can be developed in 2050 would also be subject matter for the proposals?

The International Union of Architects (UIA) invites students who study architecture around the world to an international design competition under the theme “DESIGN 2050” of UIA2011 TOKYO. The competition will seek the excellent design solutions to the following four themes.

Theme1: Tsukuba Science City “Architectural Plan for International Medical and Nursing Center

Theme2: Tsuchiura City “New C.B.D. Sports and Transportation (Railroad/Port & Harbor) Hub Area Plan”Theme3: Inashiki City “New Ecological City Plan”Theme4: Kasumigaura Southern Coastal Region (K.S.C.R.) “Smart Region Plan”

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Our Subject:Theme 1Tsukuba Science City “Architectural Plan for International Medical and Nursing Center” Subject: New International Medical and Nursing Center affiliated with Tsukuba University Location: Northern Part of Katsuragi District (30ha)Background

It is reported thatthe airpollution is becoming more and more serious since the Industrial Revolution as the speeding process of industrialization. What’s more, the pathogenic matter’s increase in the air starts threatening human health. Many statistics have shown that the proportion of illness caused by contaminated air is increasing quickly in the past 100 years. We precast that the air pollution around the world would become more critical even though Japan has cope with the heavy industry period which might result in serious medical problems. As one of the imperative elements for humans air can do a lot to our health. Therefore, we tend to capitalize on the air to improve human health and even put an end to some diseases effectively through architectural and technological means.

Purpose

In 2050, Tsukuba would be one of the most famous science cities around the world. The new International Medical and Nursing Center design should not just be focused on the local problems of medical treatment and research; it should be an experiment that would benefit the whole world. As the city has the access of sufficient green spaces and advanced technology, it has been a proper field to do this experiment. What difficulty we are facing is to reduce the damage to the landscape from the new architecture and the waste of industrial manufacture. And what is more important is to improve the quality of the air maximally through technology, thus raising the level of human health.

Strategy

We choose aero therapy as the starting point of our design according to the situations mentioned above. With the analysis of current medical space, we propose the inflatable building as our basic medical space, which can both avoid the waste of space and materials in past medical buildings to better cater to the demand of the patients in different periods and reduce the waste of manufacturing production maximally. Firstly, we change the current integral green spaces into some units in order to reduce the damage from the construction. The building unit itself’s character of light, recyclability and easy installation ensure the least waste and best use of the green space. Meanwhile, the building unit and green unit are determined with the same module which makes it easily achieve the transformation between landscape and architectural space through simple transportation and construction. All of these mentioned above ensure the architecture barely destroy the existing environment. What’s more, this building unit’s specific module that ensures it can be manufactured in large number helps this mode become universal and applicable in the whole country and even in the whole world.

Disaster prevention

When it comes to the fact that Japan is an earthquake-prone, it is essential for the new International Medical and Nursing Center in Tsukuba not only meets the demands of architectural space, materials, surroundings and techniques but also offer the users a safe and reliable space. In our strategy, we make the architecture and landscape into some units which results in less connection between the units and land as usual. Therefore, when the quake happens, the inflated building’s character of light can reduce the damage effectively. In some extreme situations even the buildings are destroyed we can make sure that the workers and equipment land would hardly damage owing to its light materials. To conclusion, our proposal not only meets all the demands from the building itself but can ensure the safety of people and the protection of green land as much as possible. It should be an appropriate approach to face the challenge in the 2050 and even further.