Shixuan Zhou
EquiVision Habitat:The Collective Dream works
Wuhan’s rapid urban growth is displacing low-income residents, highlighting gentrification's double-edged nature. I propose a Community Land Trust model to shift land ownership to a community collective, ensuring affordable housing, prioritizing long-term community welfare, and fostering inclusiveness and social diversity amidst urban development. This aims for a fairer, sustainable renewal.
coexist /resource allocation /reconcile
interweave/ complexity / loop
fragmentation / evolution / order
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Wuhan's rapid urban renewal and gentrification have displaced low-income residents. As a designer, should we consider the justice of space? Modernity or Inequality?
This is the schedule of the whole project.
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The vision plan is phased out to distinctively mark the contribution of the communities towards building an improved neighbourhood along with other stakeholders.
OUTPUT FUND
From various institutional funds, part of the land mortgage and corporate social responsibility (CSR), can be used to build low-rent housing, including the purchase of land, planning and construction of infrastructure and housing.
MAINTENANCE FUND
the sale and replacement of buildings and the lease of land.
SEED FUND
allows community land trusts to become small financial institutions. This is a financial lease of land. model that can generate income, create a variety of profitable projects within the community such as community gardens, art studios, employment unions.
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To launch WCLT, seed funding will acquire land, plan, and construct low-income housing. Operation funds come from building sales and land rentals. The Support fund will allow WCLT to function as a microfinance institution.
Independence of space
Integration of space
To connect all parts of the community by means of ties. Enhancing community connectivity without compromising private space
Private Transition Public
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The transformation from independent to integrated spaces, enhancing community connectivity without compromising private areas. By connecting all parts of the community, it balances private, transitional, and public spaces, fostering stronger social ties.
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The site is located in the urban village, which used to be an industrial area.
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The utilization of modular structures in urban spaces to create flexible community areas. By arranging these units, it transforms empty spaces into multifunctional zones, enhancing social interaction, providing recreational areas, and maintaining a balance between private and public spaces within the community.
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In sociology, gentrification and urban renewal are almost synonymous. The combination of land, new assets and commercial forms will release the vitality of the old city space, but also ruthlessly erase the original social relations.
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Initially, elements like red bricks, micro cement, and pollution remediation were carefully peeled, retained, and professionally processed. In the structural change phase, distinctive parts were preserved.
