Qinjue He

City Design (MA)

Collage on the location and history of the Jericho Casino in Palestine

The production of the building combines jericho's programs about entertainment, turning the seemingly illusory building into a frenzy of over-the-top entertainment presence in the midst of the city's crisis.

The picture shows the development of theatre in Palestinian history and how the old theatre format was brought into the streets for people to participate in.

The imagine liberated Jericho based on fictional architectural forms of surrealism, which represents a magical atmosphere, linking the city with a simple straight line, whose stage is a "street" that divides the different functions of the city, which can be agriculture, recreation, neighborhoods and also the historical heritage. A huge stage covers the space, where actors, audience, and technicians are in contact with each other during the performance. The actors here come from anywhere in jericho and they perform for themselves, for the public, and for the urban space.

About

Qinjue was born in Sichuan Province, China. Growing up with architectural books gave her the foundation to want to specialise in cities, and during her undergraduate studies she studied Environmental Design, specialising in gardens and contributing to the regeneration and renewal of old towns in the city. In addition, she chose to pursue an MA in City Design at the Royal College of Art.

During her MA in City Design, she joined the Underground Palestine Studio, where under the tutor’s guidance she carried out a series of research and design studies on the topic of Entertainment in the city of Jericho. By imagining a free and liberated Jericho, she realized the direction of the city as a people’s common hope.

In Term1, her team worked on the Oasis Casino and produced a detailed report on the development of the casino, from its construction to the people who used it, to the design of its interior, to its demolition, to provide a complete picture of the development of entertainment in the Palestinian border area. The report gives a complete picture of the development of this entertainment activity in the Palestinian border area, as well as an insight into their operation and the lives of the people working there.

In term2, her team will link the results of the casino research with the results of the Jordan research and the extraction of elements from the Jericho buildings, such as the carpet pattern, the Water park, the Jericho gate structure, etc., in order to extract the city’s morphology and simplify it into a completely new architectural form, disrupting and reorganising the existing buildings and transforming an old structure into a new one. structure into a new one.

In term 3, she delineates the uniqueness of Jericho and imagines a future city that exists in Palestine. Centered on the idea that the theatre can cannibalize every building investigates how individuals with different perspectives see and live in the same world, obscuring place and time, and working with the idea that “all perspectives lead to the same stage”. Choosing the most vibrant places in the city, they will form a specific performance space, a utopian stage and a post-liberal imaginary space, bringing Jericho’s ‘futurisation’ to life.

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