Jingyi "Jessy" Qiu
Design Works
Smithfield
Culture
District
Type
Academic/
Planning
Time
Fall 2017
Location
Blacksburg, VA


A Trail of Narrative rooms
The concept is a sustainable cultural district with a series of narrative rooms. The scheme is implementing the sequential layout of the historical sixteen squares at downtown Blacksburg in this district to narrate the legacy of Smithfield plantation, the town of Blacksburg and Virginia tech.


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Site Design
Narrative Plaza
The site manifest the heritage of the Smithfield Plantation by abstractly revealing the visual form of the rolling topography and the innermost history. Stories engraved on the black granite wall and on the ground telling the history of the site, the cultural heritage is inherited by generations thus achieves the sustainability of culture. Economical and Ecological sustainability can be achieved by food-to-table market, edible garden, BMPs, solar energy lit bricks,etc..



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