Innovative Urban Renewal and Mobility

The 2018 Fall Edition of the IMM Workshop took place at the CAUP Tongji (Shanghai, China) between the 29th of October and the 7th of November 2018. 

This workshop is the ninth workshop initiated by ENSA of Strasbourg and the third International collaborative one, associating students and professors from academic institutions in France, China and Italy : ENSA Strasbourg, CAUP Tongji, IUAV Venice, ENSA Paris-Belleville, ENSA Paris Malaquais, ENSA  Versailles.

The aim of the workshop was to imagine prospective scenarios for the Chang Yang Campus (Yangpu District, Shanghai, China) , by taking into account its industrial heritage and its possible interactions with future metropolitan mobility and renewed natural urban ecosystems.

The projects will articulate several scales of reflection : from the metropolitan scale to the architectural and public spaces micro-scale. The relation of the project site with the mobility system and infrastructures, as well as to the water and green corridors will be an important theme of reflection.

Students were encouraged to develop a personal critical viewpoint and urban strategies with regard to the relation between the innovation city and the humanistic city (according to Shanghai MasterPlan 2035).

The final design proposals articulate several scales of reflection (from the metropolitan scale to the architectural and public spaces micro-scale) and discuss possible ways to transform the industrial architectural heritage of the former Donghua Textile Factory, its relations to the surroundings, as well as its metropolitan meaning.

The themes and the project site of this 2018 edition of the IMM workshop were established with the support of the Xuanqiao Zhen local stakeholders, in particular representatives from the Planning and Construction Office as well as the Office of Urban investment who also took part in the final jury.

Together with supervisors from all participating schools and universities, the workshop's final jury welcomed local experts and design professionals. The Design Director of the ChangYang Campus as well as several Sino-French practicing architects were among the final jury's special guests.

A certificate of participation was delivered to all students that took part in this workshop.

Students : Andreea BIRZU, Sijia CHEN, Maryse CHEVALIER, Clémence COTTEREAU, Elise DALMASSO, Marie FRUIQUIERE, Lulu GAO, Eloi GOUPY,  Yuting GUO, Zhaohan HUANG, Ning KANG, Lin LING, Andrea NALDINI, Claire NEFF, Pierre-Alexis RETY, Dora STERIC, Xuejing SUN, Zexia WANG, Kathryn WENG, Siqi ZHAO, Yufei ZHAO, Danni ZHOU, Zuyu ZOU.