Small-scale density: One hundred small plazas

A neighborhood composed of numerous micro-public spaces. The image is a bird's-eye view, showing that this neighborhood has no large park; instead, dozens of extremely small spaces are inserted into the existing urban fabric: a triangular green space at a street corner, an 1.8-meter-wide gap between two buildings fitted with seating, a closed-off alley transformed into a children's playground, a parking space converted into a wooden platform, a few chairs placed under a staircase. Each spot is only a few pings (a unit of area, roughly 3.3 square meters), but due to their large number and even distribution, residents can reach one of them within three minutes of walking from any home. They use a common material language to be mutually identifiable. Avoid: merging them into one large park, concentrating the distribution in a few areas, using different materials and styles for each, making the scale too large and losing their embedded quality.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個以大量微型公共空間構成的街區。畫面是鳥瞰,可以看見這個街區沒有一座大公園,取而代之的是數十處極小的空間被插進既有的都市紋理中:一個街角的三角綠地、兩棟樓之間一米八寬的縫隙裝了座椅、一段被封閉的巷弄變成兒童遊戲場、一個停車格改成木平台、一處樓梯下方放了幾張椅子。每一處都只有幾坪,但因為數量多且分佈均勻,居民從任何一戶走出來三分鐘內都能到達其中一處。它們使用共同的材料語言而相互辨識。避免:把它們合併成一座大公園、讓分佈集中在少數區域、使用各自不同的材料與風格、把尺度做大失去嵌入性。