After four years of practical work and returning to campus to study, I have a deep feeling about both. In our work, we are exposed to practical projects, which need to consider all aspects, especially the enforceability and cost. But in the school, the projects we do are at the design level, and many times Read the full article…

A good design work often requires a lot of time and effort, and we usually have a lot of things to do. Therefore, how to arrange your time reasonably and finish your homework efficiently is an important issue. Unfortunately, now many students will spend a lot of time resting at the beginning, and finally frantically Read the full article…

Think of a city and what comes to mind? Its Streets. -Jacobs, 1961:39   © Copyright- Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-walking-on-sidewalk-3703738/ Streets are an important part of city life. They serve as the foundation for the complex interactions that exist between the architectural fabric and human organisation. A “high street” is one such Read the full article…

As a part of our module of housing alternatives, we visited New Islington in Manchester as a case study to analyse and understand various housing typologies. This neighbourhood has a variety of spaces like the Residential and Mixed use, Workplaces, Services and Public spaces each have been designed by numerous architects & designers who have Read the full article…

Project Description “To develop an understanding of the design parameters of neighbourhood development in context, around housing needs, community facilities, and viability -To improve the knowledge of the nature and processes of urban residential development and design -To To appreciate and incorporate principles of sustainable development into the creation of new and existing residential/mixed areas Read the full article…

Urban Design on Urban Carbon Emissions According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Climate Status 2020, 2020 is one of the three warmest years on record, with the global average temperature in 2020 being 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels and atmospheric CO2 concentrations already exceeding 410 ppm. Such a temperature rise and its resulting climate Read the full article…

The twenty-first century has seen various natural crises come to the fore, global warming and rising sea levels being one of them, according to the Daily Mirror, a Chilling ‘Doomsday map’ shows how the UK will be left underwater in 80 years’ time.Faced with this grave crisis, countries around the world are thinking about how Read the full article…

What is ‘A working cities’ Howard (2020) suggestion of the connection between industry and the city has changed over history, nowadays the reduction of disparities between the rich and poor, and the idea that “work” and “living” is more tenaciously balanced. Hence, contemporary cities and urban neighborhoods has a new role in places of production Read the full article…

After choosing a topic for my thesis, in my recent search for information, I found that the information I found always involved addressing the negative effects of urban gentrification.Also the design examples I found were all about urban regeneration, street revitalisation and other schemes. After reading this documentation, I also intend to set my design Read the full article…

Nowadays, more and more people own their own cars, which at first we may think is convenient, but is it really? What does it do for us? Do we really need so many cars? A sustainable community is a place where people want to live and work now and in the future, it meets the Read the full article…

After the introduction of the course by the tutors, we have a preliminary understanding of this module. Then we investigate the site and some of the precedent cases in Manchester, which gave us a deeper understanding of the design of the community. After all of that, we started the formal community design.   Collision of Read the full article…

This blog introduces the theory of Landscape Urbanism, a theory of urban design which argues the city is constructed of interconnected and ecologically rich horizontal field conditions, rather than the arrangement of objects and buildings (Wikipedia 2022). The blog will briefly explain the origins of the theory, describe where the discipline of landscape urbanism fits Read the full article…