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Smithfield

Culture

District

Type

Academic/

Planning

Time

Fall 2017 

Location

Blacksburg, VA

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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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Pages from Jin1gyi (Jessy) Qiu BLA 2018

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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Process Drawing: Plaza
Process Street Section
Concept
Process Street Section
Sketch
Process Street Section: Culture Ave

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