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Description

(RE)Configured-Assemblage is a developmental landmark proposal composed of reconfigured traces of shipping containers, envisioned to reconnect, revitalise and humanize the access to the City of Long Beach, Long Beach Blvd and Broadway Area. Through proposing three types of innovatively reconstructed modular shipping containers, the overall concept leads to open courtyards, interlocking units, and playfully generated programs that introduce a new innovative topological design that regenerates and reconnects the community. Bringing together a fusion of technological, economical and cultural entities, and combining a public free space into an interlocked modular construct, which includes an internal courtyard as public landscape, the newly developed (RE)Configured-Assemblage becomes an open playground of “hidden gems”, offering to the community countless integrated opportunities to develop and harmonise the City of Long Beach and the Long Beach Blvd Area.

The shifting of the vertical containers on the Intelligent Daylight Façade represents the constant movement of containers in the nation's busiest container port. The project presents five main connections of interlocked programmatic organization: Institutional (Eco-Edu Centre), Studios/Art Galleries/Loft Spaces (also acting as temporary lodging spaces), Commercial (Retail/Stores), and two F&B options (Cafe Ground Floor/Roof Top Bar). (RE)Configured Assemblage challenges the visceral and abundantly urbanized City of Long Beach and Long Beach Blvd Area.

Biography

Conceived in 2003, and officially launched as a collective in 2008, WE-DESIGNS.ORG is an international multi-disciplinary creative group originally founded by Wendy W Fok. As a developmental and collaborative team of creative (architectural + design) individuals, all of the group’s designs are established within the international standard, focusing also on material research, alternative fabrication methods, sound design, interactive installation, architectural, urban planning, and research-based design schemes. The WE-DESIGNS.ORG is composed of international base designers from diverse backgrounds and fields, aimed on producing a different approach to the design processes within a project. All decisions are considered by the members within the "pool" of designers, with the several points of views being analysed within the team before a project is finalized.