Stranger City

  This thesis would explore how a new type of cellular unit urbanism (micro-city) could revitalize community life in large scale, high density environments. It critiques the diminishing communal life in contemporary Chinese city caused by the gap between gigantic gesture

DECAY ARCHIVE

ARTIFACT The thesis is a memento mori of architecture in terms of decay which is the condition of dissipation over time. Instead of seeing decay as a negative surrender to time and nature, the thesis explores positive contribution of decay

From Path to Place

The city street is not only a space to facilitate movement; it is also a public place to gather and experience the city. Modern urban planning that emphasized on comprehensive networks resulted in a disjunction between the city environment and

urban dining theatre

The thesis explores the food and social relations as well as the theatrical phenomena when food and architecture juxtapose. Market as a collective food space, it shall not remain as a place of business, rather a social, cultural, exhibiting space.