Caleb Baldwin - MAXIMA SHOUGANG

Maxima is a proposal for the winter Olympics Village 2022 Beijing. It integrates the locally displaced population from rural and urban areas with the temporal population of the Olympics. Inspired by a local housing typology, the hutong, Maxima explores housing as a series of actions contained in different vessels that create new relationships amongst the residents by virtue of being shares.

The village becomes a multi-story network of interactions between private and shared vessels to reproduce the richness of the old streets of Beijing. This iconic feature of this village is the life lived in it.

COMMERCIAL AND PEDESTRIAN AGGREGATE STUDY

PLAN

COMMUNITY

COMMUNAL STUDIO LIVING

MIXED STUDIO AND FAMILY DWELLINGS

FAMILY DWELLINGS

WE STRIVE TO PROVIDE A SENSE OF COMMUNITY VERTICALLY AS WELL AS HORIZONTALLY.

THE VARIOUS MARKETPLACES AND PUBLIC SPACES IN MAXIMA PERSONIFY THE ICONIC NATURE THAT THE OLYMPICS CRAVE

SINCE THERE ARE NO VEHICULAR ROADS IN MAXIMA, PEDESTRIAN PATHS WERE PLANNED AND USED MORE EFFICIENTLY. ELEVATED PATHWAYS ARE USED AS "HIGHWAYS" FOR PEOPLE TO GET FROM ONE END OF THE VILLAGE TO THE OTHER AND SMALLER, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY STREETS ARE USED FOR SPECIFIC LOCAL NEEDS.

THESE DENSE VERTICAL COMMUNITIES ARE BATHED IN LIGHT FROM NUMEROUS COURTYARDS SO THAT EVERYONE MAY HAVE ACCESS TO NATURAL LIGHT.

THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ESTABLISHES A MEANS TO POWER THE THOUSANDS OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR LOCAL AND OLYMPIC USE WITHIN ITSELF IS A SELF SUSTAINED WEB THAT STITCHES TOGETHER ITS INHABITANT'S WITH AN ICONIC FEEL.

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