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2018 Tongji International Construction Festival Comes to an End
On June 10th, the ‘2018 Tongji International
Construction Festival and FENGYUZHU Plastic Polypropylene Sheet Design and
Construction Competition’ came to a successful conclusion. This Festival saw a
variety of ingenious and magical plastic-plate-made ‘houses of design’ of
square, spherical, triangular, and arched shapes presenting rich images of
petals, stars, moons, rivers, and bridges.
The
Festival kicked off at 9:00 on June 9th. It not only received the
participation of six teams made of freshmen from the College of Architecture and
Urban Planning of Tongji University and one freshman team from the College of
Civil Engineering of Tongji University, but it also invited representatives from
11 architectural institutes from North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia,
participants from 16 colleges and universities specialized in architecture, such
as the School of Architecture of Southeast University and the School of
Architecture of Tianjin University, as well as a freshman team from the School
of Architecture of Feng Chia University.
The Competition took the poetry,
QiuXi (The Double Seventh Night) of DU Mu, a renowned poet of the Tang Dynasty,
as the design source to encourage participants to give rein to their
imagination, and to bring the special properties of plastic hollow plates into
full use through the creation of diverse and vibrant spaces and styles.
Gathering
at the Square of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, participants
from home and abroad all busied themselves with the design and construction of
their ‘houses’ by using hollow plastic plates, bolts, and other simple tools to
build ‘houses of design’ with each measuring about 6 to 8 square meters.
On
the evening of June 9th, 35 plastic-plate houses of white color and
varied styles gradually came into shape after eight hours of efforts by each
team, standing in rows on both sides of the Square, naturally forming a
spectacular ‘Temporary Student Street.’
The
Festival was organized by the National Steering Committee of Architecture
Education in China and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji
University, and was sponsored by the Shanghai Fengyuzhu Exhibition Co.,
Ltd.
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