Enbe report

ENBE | Final Project | Part A – Report | The Better Livable Town Representation

Better Livable Town

The Circular

NAME : SAM WEI YIN

STUDENT ID : 0320364

FNBE AUGUST 2014

SAM WEI YIN| 0320364 | Pn. HAS| FNBE AUGUST 2014 | Taylor’s University1


Content:1. Introduction

2. A Town Investigation on Better Township or Town or City Guidelines and Issues

3. Investigation & Data Collection: Ancient and old cities/town

4. Investigation & Data Collection: The present towns/cities

5. Investigation & Data Collection: The future and better township

6. The New “X” Town / Or the new name

7. The Conclusion

8. References list



Introduction

Our final project of Element of Natural and Build Environment (ENBE) is

build our own ‘X’ town. The objective of this project is to let us understand the component

and element of a town. Make you yourself as a mayor of the ‘X’ town, we are propose a new

layout of a new ‘X’ town, as a result of too crowded. First, we need to do research about a

town, what is a town, what are the requirement make a good town. Next what we have to do

are, some investigation of some ancient and present town. This is to let us know what should

be improved to build a better town.

In build a future town, we need to consider geometric shape, pattern, hierarchy,

system and structure of the town. Not only this, we need to plan on transportation,

infrastructure, energy use and etc on the town.



The Town

1.1 The Town Definition

• a densely populated urban area, typically smaller than a city and larger than a

village, having some local powers of government and a fixed boundary

(as modifier): town life, related adjective urban

• a city, borough, or other urban area



• (in the US) a territorial unit of local government that is smaller than a county;

township

1.2 What is the brief history

Basically different country had different brief history of town. In early years, town

could refer to kind of settlements as diverse as agricultural estate and holding, partly

picking up the Norse sense at the end of the scale, to municipality at the other.

Australian geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor proposed a classification of towns

based on their age and pattern of land use. He identified five types of town:[1]

• Infantile towns, with no clear zoning

• Juvenile towns, which have developed an area of shops

• Adolescent towns, where factories have started to appear

• Early mature towns, with a separate area of high-class housing

• Mature towns, with defined industrial, commercial and various types of

residential area

2.3 What makes a town?

A town must have living creature such as people. Besides that it also must

include town privileges given by government. Not only this, in a town also

include shelter, to provide food, clean water supply and place for business

and government.



2.4 What make a good towns?

• Affordable residential area

• Job opportunity

• A safe water supply and sanitation system

• An easy access transportation network on every level

• Great education institution

• Protection form force like police station and armies

• Medical service, community service, and fire protection

• A steady economic growth

2.5 What is the future town?

For me, a future town should have more organizes and better living

environment than present town. It could provide better medical service,

education system and etc. Next, the first thing that come to our mind when

we think about a future town or city is full of tall building and high

technology.



3.0 Investigation & Data Collection:

Ancient town- Zhuozhuang

Figure 3.1

Figure 3.2



3.1What ancient city are you concentrating on?

Ancient town that I choose is Zhou Zhuang Watertown.

Location : Kunshan county-level city, 30 km southeast of Suzhou.

China

Historical

In the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC), Zhouzhuang Suzhou was a part

of the fief Yaocheng and called Zhenfengli. After being donated to Full Fortune (Quanfu)

Temple by Zhou Digong, a very devout Buddhist, in 1086 during the Northern Song Dynasty

(960-1127), Zhouzhuang got its present name.

3.2 What makes is a significant city and what are the details?

• Water lane and Stone Bridge

The layout of the water lanes in Zhouzhuang resembles a Chinese

character "#". Many stone bridges are built over them, linking

houses on both sides of each stream. These stone bridges are very

old. 14 of these were built in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Representatives of these are the Twin Bridges, Fu'an Bridge,

Zhenfeng Bridge and Fuhong Bridge.

• From the "Heaven on Earth" to the Water Village

Suzhou is China's well-known "city of gardens". Distinctive garden

art came to its zenith during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The city

and its outskirts are dotted with exquisite private gardens. Dozens of

them, such as Zhuozheng (Humble Administrator's) Garden, Liuyuan

(Lingering) Garden, Wangshi (master of nets) Garden and Huanxiu

(Embracing Beauty) Mountain Villa are well preserved today. The

charms of mountains, forests, trees, flowers and springs can be

appreciated without going out of the noisy surroundings of the town.

To see the water villages, the city should be toured by rickshaw or by



boating down the rivers, passing old-styled bridges and ancient

houses along the way.

• The Twin Bridges

To the northeast of the town are the twin Shide and Yong'an Bridges.

They were built between 1573 and 1619.

The area is crisscrossed by the Yinzi and Nanbei rivers. To serve

these rivers, one bridge is built in a north-south direction and the

other in an east-west direction. Each bridge has one square and one

round opening that look like ancient keys, hence they are also

known as the Key Bridges. In 1984, Chen Yifei, a young artist

residing in the United States, painted a picture of the Double Bridge

and named it "Memories of Hometown". The painting, with Chen's

37 other works, were exhibited and bought by Dr. Armand Hammer,

an American oil tycoon, and later presented to the late Deng

Xiaoping.

• Zhenfeng Bridge

Zhenfeng Bridge sits on the west mouth of the Zhongshi River, and

connects the Zhenfeng Lane and Xiwan Street. It was built in the

Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is well preserved today.



Zhouzhuang has about 1000 households who are living in the old

dwelling quarters built in the Ming, Qing dynasties and the early

Republic of China. More than 60% of these houses are well

preserved. There are 100 houses with courtyards and 60 of these have

arch gateways made by carved bricks. The houses of both Zhang and

Shen families have remained intact and serve as excellent examples

of traditional Chinese architecture

• Shen's House

Shen's House is located to the southeast of Fu'an Bridge, on

Nanshi Street. Shen Benren built it in 1742 during the Qing

Dynasty. He was a descendant of Shen Wanshen: a wealthy man in

southern China in the late Yuan (1206-1368) to early Ming

Dynasties. The compound has seven courtyards, five archways and

more than 100 rooms of different sizes. Covering an area of 2000

square meters, it was built along both sides of a 100-m-long axis.

There are three sections. The first section includes the water gate

and wharf for mooring boats and washing. The second section

consists of the Tea Hall and Main Hall for receiving guests and

holding weddings or funerals. The rear part serves as living quarters.

The Main Hall covers 170 square meters. The 6-m-high carved brick

archway, facing the Main Hall, has a horizontal board bearing the

inscription Jihouliuguang (do more good forever). Around the board

are relief sculptures of figurines, animals, pavilions and opera

characters.

• Zhang's House

Zhang's House is located to the south of the Twin Bridge on Beishi

Street. It was built between 1436 and 1449 by the offspring of Xu

Kui, the brother of Zhongshan King Xu Da. After it was sold to the

Zhang family in the early Qing Dynasty, it became known as either

Yuyan (Jade Swallow) Hall or Zhang's House.



Covering more than 1800 square meters, the house has 6 courtyards

and more than 70 rooms. The main courtyard has buildings facing

east and west, with long and short windows. Yuyan Hall is the main

building. The hall is large and bright with grand columns on large

pier bases, a rare Ming style. A river flows under the hall. A

square pool built in the middle section allows boats to turn

round. Its rear hall has open windows and balconies facing the water

with a backyard of various plants and flowers.

The place is now an important cultural relic under the protection

of the provincial government.

3.3 Conclusion about the cities

In conclusion, Zhouzhuang had find the way the to overcome problem facing

By town that build on land beside a river.

3.4 What information or element that you can use to your new future city

• The way they build water lane.

• Transportation.

• Structure of the bridge.






Present City- Seoul

Figure 4.1

Figure 4.2



4.1 When did it start? History and all

Settlement of the Han River area, where present-day Seoul is located, began around 4000

BC. Seoul is first recorded as Wiryeseong, the capital of Baekje (founded in 18 BC) in the

northeastern Seoul area. There are several city walls remaining in the area that date from this

time. Pungnaptoseong, an earthen wall just outside Seoul, is widely believed to have been at

the main Wiryeseong site. As the Three Kingdoms competed for this strategic region, control

passed from Baekje to Goguryeo in the 5th century, and from Goguryeo to Silla in the 6th

century. In the 11th century Goryeo, which succeeded Unified Silla, built a summer palace in

Seoul, which was referred to as the "Southern Capital". It was only from this period that

Seoul became a larger settlementWhen Joseon replaced Goryeo, the capital was moved to

Seoul (also known as Hanyang and later as Hanseong), where it remained until the fall of the

dynasty. The Gyeongbok Palace, built in the 14th century, served as the royal residence until

1592. The other large palace, Changdeokgung, constructed in 1405, served as the main royal

palace from 1611 to 1872. Originally, the city was entirely surrounded by a massive circular

stone wall to provide its citizens security from wild animals, thieves and attacks. The city has

grown beyond those walls and although the wall no longer stands (except along Bugaksan

Mountain (북악산), north of the downtown area), the gates remain near the downtown district

of Seoul, including most notably Sungnyemun (commonly known as Namdaemun) and

Honginjimun (commonly known as Dongdaemun). During the Joseon dynasty, the gates were

opened and closed each day, accompanied by the ringing of large bells at the Bosingak belfry.

In the late 19th century, after hundreds of years of isolation, Seoul opened its gates to

foreigners and began to modernize. Seoul became the first city in East Asia to introduce

electricity in the royal palace, built by the Edison Illuminating Company and a decade later

Seoul also implemented electrical street lights. Much of the development was due to trade

with foreign countries like France and United States. For example, the Seoul Electric

Company, Seoul Electric Trolley Company, and Seoul Fresh Spring Water Company were all

joint Korean-American owned enterprises. In 1904, an American by the name of Angus

Hamilton visited the city and said, "The streets of Seoul are magnificent, spacious, clean,

admirably made and well-drained. The narrow, dirty lanes have been widened, gutters have

been covered, roadways broadened. Seoul is within measurable distance of becoming the

highest, most interesting and cleanest city in the East. After the Russo-Japanese War (1904-

1905), the Empire of Japan annexed Korea and renamed the city Gyeongseong. Japanese

technology was imported, the city walls were removed, some of the gates demolished. Roads

became paved and Western-style buildings were constructed. The city was liberated at the end

of World War II. In 1945 the city was officially named Seoul and designated as a special city

in 1949. During the Korean War, Seoul changed hands between the Russian/Chinese-backed



North Korean forces and the American-backed South Korean forces several times, leaving the

city heavily damaged after the war. The capital was temporarily relocated to Busan. One

estimate of the extensive damage states that after the war, at least 191,000 buildings, 55,000

houses, and 1,000 factories lay in ruins. In addition, a flood of refugees had entered Seoul

during the war, swelling the population of the city and its metropolitan area to an estimated

1.5 million by 1955. Following the war, Seoul began to focus on reconstruction and

modernization. As Korea's economy started to grow rapidly from the 1960s, urbanization also

accelerated and workers began to move to Seoul and other larger cities. From the 1970s, the

size of Seoul administrative area greatly expanded as it annexed a number of towns and

villages from several surrounding counties. According to 2012 census data, the population of

the Seoul area makes up around 20% of the total population of South Korea, Seoul has

become the economic, political and cultural hub of the country, with several Fortune 500

companies, including Samsung, SK Holdings, Hyundai, POSCO and LG Group

headquartered there.Seoul was the host city of the 1986 Asian Games and 1988 Summer

Olympics as well as one of the venues of the Football World Cup 2002.

4.2 What makes is a significant city and what are the details?

• Architectural such as sungyemun, changdakgung, lotter world tower ( under

construction )

• Technology- Seoul has a very technologically advanced infrastructure. It has

the world's highest fiber-optic broadband penetration, resulting in the world's fastest internet connections with speeds up to 1 Gbps. Seoul provides free Wi-Fi access in outdoor spaces.

• Museum – there are 115 museum in Seoul.

• Park-There are a lot of park in Seoul and the largest indoor amusement park,

Lotte World. Other recreation centers include the former Olympic and World Cup stadiums and the City Hall public lawn.

4.3 Conclusion about the city.

This city is a well planned city. In this city we not only can found tall building but it also have recreation area.

4.4 What information or element that you can use to your new town

• Design of some building



• Transportation network

• Park


The future of towns and Better Towns

Gwang Gyo Power Centre



Figure 5.1

MVRDV architects have won the award to design the city centre of gwang gyo, located

approximately 35km south of Seoul, South Korea. The concept design consists of a

series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with great programmatic diversity, aiming for

high urban density and encouragement of further developments around the ‘power

centre’, one of the envisioned two centre’s of the future new town. the gwanggyo power

centre will consist of housing, offices, a mix of cultural, leisure and educational facilities

as well as parking. The hill shaped structure is constructed with a series of rings that

facilitate outdoor life each floor will consist of terraces with a floor to floor circulation

system in which water will be stored and used to irrigate plants. The roofs of these

hill and the terraces are planted with box hedges creating a strong, recognizable,

cohesive park. In each tower a number of voids connect to the atrium providing for light

and ventilation and creating semi-public spaces. The design aims to create a landscape

on that enlarges green qualities and that links the surrounding parks by turning the site

into a park. The entire new town will be a self sufficient city of 77,000 inhabitants.



Figure 5.2

What can I take from future city?

• Concept of the green building



• Design of the building which is ring shape

6.0 The Circular

6.1 How did you come out with this solution to create this new town?

The trend of human population is increasing. This causes the previous city

become crowded and could not sustain anymore. Besides, previous city is totally

polluted. Me as a mayor of the city I had to create a new town to my people to ensure

they could continue their live. I and my group member had choose a town on land

next to river or sea. The reason we choose this as our group theme is because we

could get our basic daily resource such as water supply. My new town is circular in

shape and the river will pass through the center of the circle.

6.2 Zoning of the town.

This town divide into 7 part which is education, residential area, government

building, business center, recreation area such as park, transportation center, research

center and place for agriculture.

6.3 What is the important element in this new town?



The outer look of the residential and education building look like a mountain.

The roof and certain level of the building is cover by green features. Solar energy as

the main energy while hydro energy is second power supply. Next, transportation I

suggest for this town are subway, bus and bicycle. A water recharge area will be

located under the park.

6.3 Conclusion

This new town provide a new liveable place for human. It provide better

transportation system than previous. This town







7.0 Conclusion

After this project, I understand that to plan and build a town is not easy. I had

did a lot of research about the shape, facility I need to put. Beside, I nee dto do some

research about some culture since our country had different races.

Last what I want to say were time management is really important. So, manage your

time well I could help a lot.





8.0 Reference Links

Australian Bureau of Statistics: Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC)

2005

External links

http://www.chinahighlights.com/suzhou/attraction/zhouzhuang-water-town.htm

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=37665408

http://www.ssdarchitecture.com/tag/water/

http://www.seouldesign.or.kr/eng/program/city_gallery_info.jsp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul

http://www.weingartnerarchitects.com/projects/masterplan/future-town/

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/mvrdv-architects-wins-gwanggyo-power-centre-

competition-in-south-korea/

http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/zen-photo/e/extreme-green-architecture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhouzhuang


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhouzhuang

http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/zen-photo/e/extreme-green-architecture

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/mvrdv-architects-wins-gwanggyo-power-centre-competition-in-south-korea/

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/mvrdv-architects-wins-gwanggyo-power-centre-competition-in-south-korea/

http://www.weingartnerarchitects.com/projects/masterplan/future-town/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul

http://www.seouldesign.or.kr/eng/program/city_gallery_info.jsp

http://www.ssdarchitecture.com/tag/water/

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=37665408

http://www.chinahighlights.com/suzhou/attraction/zhouzhuang-water-town.htm

Enbe report

Design

town investigation

future town

types of town

town life

town definition

town privileges

new x town

good towns