System-Thinking
An Ancient Fix for Australia's Modern Housing Crisis: Rethinking MMC
Picture this: you’re transported 600 years back to 15th-century China. The emperor, hearing of your unparalleled skill as a builder, summons you to build his new palace.
The emperor’s top priority? How soon he can move in.
The scope of the palace is quite ambitious: it covers 8,700 halls and rooms of all sizes. The footprint of the buildings alone, excluding gardens and plazas, is equivalent to 15 soccer fields.
The Modular Gene of the Canglang Pavilion: Insights from a Song Dynasty Garden's Construction System
A headache, brought on by matters at work, was my companion to the Canglang Pavilion on a gloomy morning.
It is one of the oldest gardens in Suzhou, a city of canals and white-walled dwellings that stands as a living archive of China’s garden design, deep in the Jiangnan region, the historic centre of Chinese literati culture.
Instead of heading directly for the famous structure, I circled behind to an unassuming cluster of buildings—the Cuilinglong.