The starting point of this project is the search for a renewal approach, including process and outcome, that allows urban village communities to move from labour-intensive industry-dominated production and living space to a sustainable and livable high-density community in the context of industrial transition.

Shenzhen's labour-intensive manufacturing-based system attracted a large number of migrants from other cities. Urban villages were born along with the rapid expansion of factories. However, Shenzhen's shortage of land and expensive housing has forced migrants to live in urban villages, turning them into areas of extremely high density, both in terms of population and building structures. They became the characteristic feature of Shenzhen's landscape. About 60 percent of the people in Shenzhen now live in urban villages, where there are many environmental problems, such as inadequate public facilities and a shortage of housing. Shenzhen government has undertaken various urban village renewal programes. They either demolish villages for the sake of land finance or focus on micro revitalization aimed at improving the environmental conditions of public spaces.

However, industrial transition has affected people and space along the entire labour-intensive industry chain, which means that the model of high-density urban villages and industrial parks dominated by labour-intensity is facing mismatches in population, space and system in the industrial transition.

In recent years, Shenzhen has launched a new round of urban village improvement projects, which plans to retain most of the existing living spaces in urban villages, while changing the functions or redeveloping the large-footprint industrial zones that collectively owned by villages. The latter contains great opportunities to enhance the urban sustainability and livability. For this project, urban villages' industrial parks in Shenzhen's periphery were selected for planning and design

For this project, industrial parks in the periphery of Shenzhen, which is going to become a high-tech industrial park in the future, were selected for planning and design.

This project aims to address the challenges posed by the transition to renewable energy sources. This will cause an unstable and unreliable energy flow, which does not correspond with the current energy use patterns of society. Different elements of the current energy network are analysed. They have a big role in the transition towards a completely renewable energy system. The proposed solution involves the utilisation of hydrogen as a means to store and transport renewable energy. In order to achieve this, consumption and production patterns in North-western Europe are analysed in relation to existing energy infrastructure that is suitable for carrying hydrogen. With a combination of different data sources and a created algorithm a model is created that is able to generate clusters. These clusters resulted in a continental framework containing 3 typologies of energy landscapes. A centralized, decentralized and a resilient zone; inbetween. These landscapes are characterised by their population, proximity and current land use against societal challenges such as justice, resilience, polarisation, and reliability. Self-made algorithms are used to transcribe the landscapes into a collection of physical energy elements that will be needed in areas. These measurements are visualized to propose what the future “energyscapes” could look like. The project suggests implementations on different scales for the new paradigm in the energy transition where hydrogen contributes to a just and reliable energy system.