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Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

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Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 九龙城寨实景 (Image cr: 加拿大攝影師Greg Girard)

As one of the most important expressions in architectural design, the architecture section plays a pivotal role in conveying the design concept. The section is a good way to express the change in the vertical height of the space and the relationship between the various levels, so that the design can be seen at a glance. And careful design will also make the value of the section itself go beyond the existence of mere "tool drawing", and may become a work of art.

World Architecture has selected eight of the most revolutionary architectural sections in the history of modern architecture, they are different in age and style, but they all show the architect's unique design and brushstrokes, as well as those human emotions that can only be experienced in the drawings.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Kowloon Walled City

Kowloon Walled City

Architectural design: Kerr Hongming team

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Panoramic section of the Kowloon Walled City drawn by a team from Japan

In 1993, Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City was demolished, and it is now in its thirtieth year of demolition. The only architectural treasure that deserves to be left behind in the chaotic times of the time is the incomparably detailed and accurate section of the building.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 九龙城寨实景 (Image cr: 加拿大攝影師Greg Girard)

The Kowloon Walled City was expanded by the Qing government in 1874 and was inhabited by countless refugees after World War II, but due to the peculiarities of its state of government, the police could not enter to enforce the law, and soon the walled city became a slum for crime and drugs. However, this "unplanned" building has what is said to be one of the most eye-popping architectural drawings of the last century.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Detailed cross-sectional view of the Kowloon Walled City drawn by a team from Japan

Before the entire building was demolished, a team from Japan led by historian Hiroaki Kerr carefully recorded the entire labyrinthine building's floors, floors, walls, and even the life activities in each room in a cross-sectional drawing.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Detailed cross-sectional view of the Kowloon Walled City drawn by a team from Japan

The details of the drawings are stunning. The team seems to have painted in detail every object of the Walled City's more than 33,000 inhabitants, from the clothesline outside the window to the television antenna on the roof, running through the megastructure, each telling a story and giving a glimpse of what life was like in this horribly strange "city."

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Detailed cross-sectional view of the Kowloon Walled City drawn by a team from Japan

This cross-section of a building is a pioneer in storytelling through visual images, and the following 7 examples are a good example of how cross-sections can best convey the design concept and tell the story behind the design.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Wall of Change

Walls of Change

Architect: Lebbeus Woods

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 来自列比乌斯·伍兹的变化之墙手绘图 (Imagescourtesy of Lebbeus Woods）

Lebbeus Woods was a very visionary American architect and artist whose work was known for his design philosophy that went beyond the norm. Although many of his works were not realized because they were too far ahead of their time, he still left a lasting impact on the history of architecture.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Wall of Change hand-drawn drawing from Lebius Woods

Woods is very adept at expressing his ideas and views on the relationship between architecture and social, economic, and political issues through cross-sectional drawings. His hand-drawn drawings for the essay "The Wall of Change" are very in-depth and textured, especially for those who have a place in their hearts for "unexpected" buildings and who love to reconstruct abandoned buildings.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Hand-drawn section of the Wall of Changes from Lebius Woods

The old city of Havana in Cuba has many ancient buildings built in the 16th century, which have survived the wind and rain but are still dilapidated, and the people who live here are also poor and so-called "affecting the city's appearance", and the local government does not have enough funds to repair them, so they want to demolish them.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Wall of Change hand-drawn drawing from Lebius Woods

To protect these buildings and the city's ancient city, Woods designed a series of habitable walls around the ancient city to protect them. "These walls should have some infrastructure in them, such as the most basic source of clean water, or they can generate electricity, like a 'city battery.'" ”

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Wall of Change hand-drawn drawing from Lebius Woods

In this way, the walls act like "high-tech" walls, to which each individual occupant can be "plugged in" at any time like a plug-in unit, and live as a self-sustaining urban unit. Since the "plug-in" unit is mentioned, we have to talk about the following sections.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Plug-in city

Plug-In City

建筑设计：Archigram

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Peter Cook and his team, Archigram, drew more than 900 drawings between 1960 and 1974, including the design of the "plug-in city".

The "Plug-in City" is a very avant-garde, bold and inspiring project, an imaginary city whose main design concept is to "insert" countless modular residential units into giant core infrastructure machines.

Archigram's many designs that seemed fantastical at the time sparked debate about prefabricated modular house accessories and the idea of urban infrastructure.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++自Peter Cook 的插件城市漫画风格剖面图纸 (Images courtesy of Peter Cook, Archigram

Looking at the cutaway of the plug-in city, PeterCook's bold comic-book-style hand-drawn drawings highlight and illustrate the idea of the design: it's a complex megastructure.

It is presented in the form of a frame without a permanent building body, which allows the honeycomb dwelling to be inserted and installed with the help of a crane or removed from the core machine.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++来自Peter Cook 的插件城市漫画风格剖面图纸 (Imagescourtesy of Peter Cook, Archigram）

The vision and vision of the city of the future embodied in this design also greatly influenced and inspired the Pompidou Centre project designed by Piano &Roger. Indeed, the often bold fictional ideas and blueprints of real-life projects have brought much more influence to the field of modern architecture.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Charming hotel

Hotel Attraction

Architect: Antonio Gaudí

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Design section and concept art of the glamorous hotel skyscraper from Gaudi

The Hotel Attraction is a skyscraper designed by the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi for New York City in 1908. The site was chosen for Ground Zero in Manhattan, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center would later be built.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Hand drawn design drawings of glamorous hotel skyscrapers from Gaudi

The design height of the building was 1,180 feet (360 meters), which was considered impossible by many at the time. It's not just that its height was questioned at the time, but we can see from the cutaways that the design bears a resemblance to another of Gaudí's more famous, but still unfinished designs – La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++来自Gaudi的魅力酒店摩天大楼手绘设计图纸 (Imagescourtesy of Antonio Gaudi）

Although such a large-scale design project using parabolic towers has never been realized in reality, the clues of Gaudí's organic ideology can be seen in the parametric design of ZahaHadid and Coop Himmelb(l)au.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Stacked cities

Stacked City

Architect: Stuart Franks

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Concept art of "Stacked Cities" from Stuart Franks' student days

StackedCity, also known as Multiplicity, was a design completed by Stuart Franks during his first year of studying for a Master of Arts at Royal College of Art.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Sectional view of Stuart Franks' "Stacked Cities" design from his student days

London's King's Cross Station is not only an important transport hub, but also one of London's top attractions, with a daily visitor throughput of up to 300,000 people. Stuart believes that its function is no longer as simple as a station, but should be a supercenter for transportation, work, housing, shopping, entertainment, culture, and food.

As a result, Stuart designed a stacked city on top of London's King's Cross Station to meet the demand for London's rapidly growing population.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Concept art of "Stacked Cities" from Stuart Franks' student days

It can be seen that the narrative of this section draws on the design concept of Cross-Programming, by the most controversial architect, Rem Koolhaas.

Drawing on historical documents and contemporary projects, the work is characterized by structure, complexity and contradiction, as well as imaginative and whimsical creativity, as well as a postmodernist style.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Seattle Central Library

Seattle Library

Architect: OMA

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Concept art from OMA's design "Seattle Center Library".

The Seattle Central Library, the flagship of the Seattle Public Library System, was completed and opened to the public in 2004. The building is an 11-storey (56.9 m high) glass and steel structure with an area of 33,722.6 square meters.

The drawing seen below is a drawing designed by OMA for the Seattle Library, and like many contemporary architectural firms, it uses one medium of expression that is often considered the primary enemy of visual expression: the written word.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture
Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ A unique medium of expression from OMA – a combination of text and profile

Although this picture conveys information well in the form of text, using the font, size and color of the text to express the order and structure level, in order to achieve the effect of conveying information in words, the whole picture lacks the overall scale and depth that the image can express. At the same time loses the design features of the image and the ability to render the atmosphere. However, this did not stop OMA from loving text and images, which are still used today.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Florence Cathedral

Florence Cathedral

(The Duomo)

建筑设计:Squeaks / Brunelleschi

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 教堂穹顶横截面图 (Imagescourtesy of Cigoli, Brunelleschi）

In stark contrast to the abstract text above, this stunning cross-section of a church dome by the Italian painter Cigoli from 400 years ago is a good example of old-fashioned cartographic craftsmanship.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Cross-section of the church dome

Florence Cathedral is a Gothic Roman Catholic church in Florence, Italy, which began construction in 1296 and took more than a century to complete in 1436. With a height of 114.5 meters and an area of 8,300 square meters, the building is not only a famous tourist attraction in Italy, but also a UNESCO World Historic Site.

Cigoli depicts designer Filippo Brunelleschi's innovative double-shell design, which subtly reflects the light and dark changes in the image, increasing the depth of field of the picture to better represent the vast space of the cathedral gallery.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 佛罗伦萨大教堂外观

At that time, the church was built without flying buttresses and without independent scaffolding, and many people were not optimistic about this experimental construction method. Yet it was the design of this unique 150-foot-wide dome that ushered in Renaissance glory, and Cigoli's drawing in flimsy parchment remains one of the most elegant descriptions of existing architectural innovations.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

Cities of the Future

City Of The Future

建筑设计：W.H. Corbett

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 插图中高楼林立、交通拥挤、人满为患 (Imagescourtesy of W.H. Corbett）

Just three centuries after Cigoli, Corbett's drawing is undoubtedly more futuristic, but equally powerful and influential. This diagram shows a cross-sectional view of the city where multi-level streets are being built to address the growing population density.

In this beautifully detailed section, Corbett creates a more interesting public space by layering the cityscape at different heights. Surrounded by high-rises, traffic, and overcrowding, the American architect walks the line between utopia and dystopia to depict a grand and incredible cityscape.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ 在为解决人口密度日益增长这一问题所建造的多层次街道的城市剖面图 (Imagescourtesy of W.H. Corbett）

Corbett's vision of the future cityscape continues to appear in different forms, from Fritz Lang's epic sci-fi film "Metropolis" to Batman Gotham City's hyper-denseenclaves.

In the real world, Corbett has also contributed to many of New York City's high-rise projects, most notably Rockefeller Center in the 1920s.

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Medium shot from the German 1927 science fiction film "Metropolis".

Not only the "Kowloon Walled City", but also eight highly revolutionary sections in the history of modern architecture

+++ Rockefeller Center, New York

Reference：

https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/pmhnv/the-perfect-drawing-8-sensational-sections-that-raise-the-bar-for-architectural-representation.html

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/an-illustrated-cross-section-of-hong-kongs-infamous-kowloon-walled-city/

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