Vertical Street.

With the ionization of social interactions between people, communities are gradually changing from collective dwellings where many public activities take place to inwardly oriented and closed independent spaces. In this design, we try to take the street as the main space for public activities and the contact medium between the living units and the outside world from the study of the texture of the old city of Wuhan and the examination of residential activities, and envision the possible form of future communities with diverse, intimate and blurred boundaries. A comparison between old city communities and contemporary neighborhoods reveals that residents' sense of identity and social interactions are much more frequent in old city communities than in contemporary ones, and in old city, public activities often occur on the streets. Therefore, we use community street revitalization as a design strategy to develop a transformation of the modern community and a vision of the future community. Streets in the past were characterized by small scale and multiple levels, connected together through a tree structure with a dense road network. Modern streets, on the other hand, are characterized by large scales and multiple levels, interconnected by an orthogonal network of small densities. However, this multi-level and large-scale street system is not conducive to interaction, creating boundaries that are difficult to cross and clusters that are strongly centripetal and externally exclusive. We therefore envision a future street system that is centerless, with relatively flat hierarchies and dense street systems interconnected by a mesh system. The diversity of streets meets the needs of multi-functional and multi-population use and solves the problems between communities and cities, and between communities and residents.