Disneyland
Disneyland Anaheim CA United States
Disneyland Reloaded
The replica and the theme park.
By understanding the typology of the theme park in its physical, territorial and socio-cultural engagement, how can we question the relationship between the theme park and its copy? Currently vast amounts of land are claimed, and a theme park is placed on it, distancing itself from the city.
I would argue the typology requires challenging. By allowing it to grow and adapt within its independent structure, it acts as an infrastructural element that varies in its autonomous characteristics.
What is a copy?
I am rethinking the model of the existing Hong Kong Disneyland that is to a large extent spatially autonomous. I am proposing a New Disneyland for the contemporary metropolis that is partially autonomous and adaptable.
Land shortages and density is the key aspect driving the urbanism of the place and it is no longer viable to have large theme parks that only operate partially for specific parts of the year.
The proposal for the new Disneyland is infrastructural in the sense that it is embedded in a high-density hotel development and parts of it can be cut off from the main theme park in order to be used as a temporary tourist infrastructure for the city.
Is Disneyland really a Disneyland or is it just a mirror of the city back to itself?
Original Disneyland
Disneyland replica model analysis and comparison
It's Not a Copy, it's an Adaptation
Disneyland Anaheim & Disneyland Paris-Superimposed Castles
Design Strategy I
Connection nodes of the themed areas of the original Disneyland in Anaheim
Design Strategy II
Vertical remapping of Disneyland Anaheim
Visitor Map
'Disneyland Reloaded' - 迪士尼乐园改造
Interior View
Infrastructural Disneyland - Partially Autonomous/Adaptable
Interior View
Infrastructural Disneyland - Autonomous
Disneyland Reloaded
'When the Original met its Copy'
Hotel Guest View
Is Disneyland really a Disneyland or is it just a mirror of the city back to itself?
