The Smart Switch
The design scenario imagines a new spatial node linking blue and green corridors with new public spaces inside the harbour area, with, at its core, a multi-modal innovative mobility hub. Autonomous crystal car lines, waterway activation, a new railway station, bike sharing as well as a drone operated on-demand luggage transport system, will all contribute to anchoring and integrating the harbour gateway to the local spatial and mobility system of Strasbourg metropolis.
The hub's new centrality activates the urban regeneration and further development of the surrounding neighbourhoods through qualitative public spaces hosting green corridors enhancing air circulation and sustainable water cycles. Ecological and energy solutions, both human and smart, are implemented from the metropolitan strategies to the architectural design.
The smart switch project was designed by ENSAS-Tongji double master's students Wang ZHONG & Yatong WANG as their end-of-studies design project at ENSA Strasbourg (2018), under the supervision of Associate Professor Andreea Grigorovschi within the framework of the Innovative Metropolitan Mobility Chair (IMM Chair).
The project was awarded the Bronze Medal in 2018 at the 4th China Habitat Environmental Design Academic Year Award. The award ceremony and the award-winning works exhibition was held at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology in December 2018.
Academic partners
ENSA Strasbourg
CAUP Tongji
IMM Chair
Organizers
Tsinghua University/Ministry of Education Design Specialty Teaching Steering Committee
Co-organizers: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Higher Education Civil Engineering Teaching Steering Committee/Architecture Specialty Steering Committee/Urban and Rural Planning Specialty Steering Committee/Landscape Architecture Professional Steering Committee
Xi'an Jiaotong University of Architecture and Technology
