China Studio
October 8-26 in China, Tongji University, Shanghai
Design of a Sustainable New City for Chongming Island
Professors Harry Mallgrave, George Schipporeit

Project Description
A select tem of eight architectural students, two engineering students, and two students from the University of Chicago will collaboratively examine the issues and design a sustainable new city for the island of Chongming, located adjacent to Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The problem is based on the fact that China currently has plans to build eight new cities on this island, of which only one has been designed. While in China, students will also work with Chinese students and faculty.

Studio Type and Requirements
This is a large-scale planning studio and students with planning interests are preferred, although the work will be beneficial to all students of architecture because these principles can be applied to all levels of design. Intellectual ambition and travel experience are also desirable. Passports are a prerequisite.

Format and Techniques
This studio will meet twice a week and have three segments: 1) Research of Chinese urban patterns and urban programming; 2) Field research (site analysis), meetings with officials, and preliminary planning in China; 3) A collective schematic design for the new city prepared back in Chicago. The work of this studio will then be examined and advanced during the spring semester by a special multidisciplinary seminar (five architects, five engineers, five students from University of Chicago), sponsored by the International Center for Sustainable New Cities. The objective is not only to produce a published document of the research and planning carried out over the course of the year, but also to gain a "real life" insight into just how such decisions are made.