Almost every city.Will have a distinctive section of the block.They may carry the stories of famous people.Or bustling street scenes that form a microcosm of the city.It represents the way of life of a regional group.Let’s take a look at these foreign countries.An example of historic district building.FARET Tachikawa Art District, Tokyo.As one of the leading design cities in Asia, Tokyo’s creative industry has long incorporated art into its public streets, and artists have shown their creative value while renewing the city.
Tachikawa, a satellite city of Tokyo, has one such public art district, known locally as the FARET Tachikawa Art District.
“FARET Tachikawa” is an important project in Tokyo’s “revitalization of old districts”, covering an area of 5.9 hectares. The building will be used for 11 buildings, including offices, hotels, a large department store, a movie theater, and a library, and it will cost 3 billion dollars to develop. There are about 10,000 office workers and more than 30,000 tourists a day, providing about 1,000 parking Spaces.
At the beginning of its construction, Tachi Kawa Public Art District took the concept of “small city” as its concept, and the types of public art were also very diversified. The 7 blocks included 92 artists from 36 countries participating in the creation of public art.
As large as the artistic landscape at the entrance of the hotel, as small as the faucet, fire box, public seats, floor paving and air vents, all have been recreated by artists: some use a corner of the building, some a column at the exit of the parking lot, some use the exhaust vent of the building, and some just create on the ground…
The art is subtly.
“Hidden” in the real environment.
Make Tachikawa a public art throughout Japan.
The densest and most integrated in the civic scene.
Shimo-kitazawa, Tokyo.
Shimokitazawa has been rated as “the city that young people most want to live in” for many years. In 2019, it was ranked the first among the 15 coolest and most fashionable neighborhoods in the world by Vogue.
Shimokitazawa gives the city another face, advocating low-carbon is the life style of Shimokitazawa people. There are no luxury sports cars or luxury goods here. Instead, there are bicycle shops, antique houses and ancient books everywhere.
As Tokyo’s largest “vintage war zone,” vintage shops with obscure names are a treasure trod for vintage fashion lovers. Outside, there are rows and rows of bright vintage dresses, from dresses to dresses to trench coats, which are not only very cheap, but also of good quality and hygiene.
In addition to vintage houses, there are plenty of local vendors, including plenty of vintage shops, unusual specialty shops and small boutiques for young artists and artisans. Many are filled with rare items collected by their owners during their travels around the world. From trinkets and glassware to antique leather cases, vinyl turntables and even used Musical Instruments, each item is engraved with the ages.
Shimokitazawa also has the reputation of “music street”, full of second-hand record stores, Live houses, any small coffee shop can be a venue for bands to perform. The Shiamokazawa Music Festival, which is held in the middle of July every year, is combined with local shops and streets. From theaters to several performance Spaces, cafes, food vendors and so on, all participate in the festival. Each music festival has a carnival atmosphere, as well as a warm annual reunion of local residents.
And local residents and businesses.
And they will guard it very hard.
The various cultures on the block.
Let Shimokitazawa be not only a street for young people.
And the streets of every generation.
Clichy Batignolles of France.
The Clichy neighborhood is located in the 17th arrondissement northwest of Paris. It used to be a railway station and associated land.
In 2001, Paris proposed outward expansion, raising the height limits of Paris, complemented by the connotation of the eco-city, accelerated by a major event (the Olympics). A continuation of the Ottoman urban fabric of Paris. Clichy Block is fully involved in this transformation, becoming a model of ecological block in this wave of urban renewal.
The Clichy Block project aims to bridge the urban fabric that has been divided for a long time due to the railway, and realize the enhancement of land value and environmental improvement through the development of the ecological block to become a new urban development center.
The Clichy block is mainly arranged around Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. With an area of 100,000 square meters, it is also one of the largest parks in Paris (about 1/14 the size of Shanghai’s Century Park). The park is surrounded by a variety of private, retirement and social housing and office Spaces, achieving a high mix of functions.
In addition to community-level daily service facilities such as restaurants, bars and shops, city-level and regional functions such as court buildings and police headquarters have been introduced.
In addition, the program also takes into account the different needs of students, young workers, the elderly, the disabled, and multi-population families. The central green space provides various activity places for various groups of people: there are sports fields for young people to do activities, there are walking paths for the elderly, there are flowers for students to read, etc., forming a vibrant public space.
Each neighborhood forms a closed, semi-public courtyard space through the height difference of the building enclosure or the artificial platform. Combined with various vegetation and daily leisure places (such as barbecue, children’s play, etc.), residents in the neighborhood form a strong sense of belonging and a high degree of communication.
In terms of sustainable development strategy, the transformation of Clichy block is mainly reflected in four aspects: energy saving and clean energy, biodiversity and climate, space utilization and community diversity, transportation and logistics.
The buildings in the community are all low-energy buildings, and the green space in Martin Luther King Park provides an ecological environment for different species in the community, with a total of about 500 plant species. Rainwater is funneled into the wetland, which can meet 40 percent of the park’s irrigation needs. The large number of plants and lakes in the park effectively regulate the community temperature and effectively avoid the urban heat island effect.
Martin Luther King Park, located in the heart of the Clichy neighborhood, expresses the idea of embedding green space into modern urban life. The park has 14 entrances and many access roads to ensure easy access for nearby residents, as well as making the park a place for nearby residents to socialize. There is also a lot of infrastructure that can be used by residents of all ages to encourage the community to get out of the house and increase the use of the park.
Transportation within the community is based on walking and public transportation. To encourage bike travel, 15 Velib bike-sharing sites have been set up in the community, with 2.25 percent of the area in almost every building being reserved for bikes.
In terms of improving the ecological appearance of the city, Clichy block, relying on the functional composite space utilization mode, has successfully transformed from an industrial decline area, providing various facilities such as economic activities, cultural and recreational activities as the central area. As a living area, it is a standard green ecological area, providing a mixed living mode of people of all levels and jobs of all levels.
