Thom Mayne Completes Research on Houston’s Urban Future

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普利策奖得主汤姆•梅恩历时一年半的时间完成了休斯顿未来城市发展的研究，该研究是鉴于当前快速扩张的城市进程。

一起完成这个研究项目的有21个休斯顿大学的学生和Matt Johnson,Peter Zweing以及Jason Logan等教职人员，这个项目的重点是在解决由休斯顿缺乏分区的历史性问题和大量工业以及资本不受监管的增长之间矛盾的方法。

具体方法包括重新改造当前的能源基础设施，改变房地产和密度并且借用分区的缺乏以产生新的灵感。

“休斯顿是美国主要的城市中唯一没有分区并且是基于最基本的规则发展的，”洛根说到。“令人惊讶的是，我们发现分区的缺乏可以产生意想不到的城市和建筑形式。

Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne has completed a three-semester–long study of Houston’s future, given its current sprawling urban conditions and rapid growth.
The project, conducted alongside 21 University of Houston students and faculty members Matt Johnson, Peter Zweig, and Jason Logan, focused on ways of addressing the problems that arise from Houston’s historical lack of zoning in conjunction with the largely unregulated growth of industry and capitalism.
These approaches include reinventing the current energy infrastructure, changing real estate and density, and leveraging the lack of zoning to generate new ideas.
“Houston is the only major city in the United States without zoning and form-based codes,” said Logan. “Surprisingly, we found a lack of zoning can generate exceptional forms of urbanism and architecture.”

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这个工作室涉及到一个在洛杉矶夏天的项目，梅恩的墨菲西斯事务所就在这里。学生与梅恩合作一起构想未来休斯顿城市发展的可能性。

通过探寻如何重建和重新思考中心商务区的发展，学生需要利用经济，文化，社会和生态方面的要点来证明设计的可行性，这对学生来说是一个挑战，茨威格说。

他们的观点是提出一个有活力的，乐观的未来，并且认为实际发展的速度快过任何一个人的预测。

The studio involved a summer project in Los Angeles, where Mayne’s firm, Morphosis, is based. Students collaborated with Mayne to envision Houston’s rapidly approaching future.
By exploring how to rebuild and rethink the development of the central business district, students were challenged to demonstrate the viability of designs from an economic, cultural, social, and ecological point of view, said Zweig.
Their vision proposes a dynamic, optimistic future that is actually occurring faster than anyone has anticipated.

Courtesy of University of Houston

这个工作室项目的成果将在建筑设计大学的马什伯恩画廊举办的展览，展览将于11月30号开放。此外，2017年秋天也将出版这个项目的展览集。

The culmination of the studio project is an exhibition at the College of Architecture and Design’s Mashburn Gallery, which opened on November 30. Additionally, the work is set to be published in a book in fall 2017.


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