ZIP

Automobiles and roads are just like zippers.

In contemporary cities, automobiles and roads penetrate into every corners of the cities because of speed and convenience. They are like opened zippers as the city is divided into many fragmented pieces.

What will happen if we zip them back to be closed?

The objective of this thesis is to study and create how to zip and how it affects to everything.

Zip or Unzip?

— Drawn by Hurakan Yeung

“There is no magic in simply removing cars from downtown, and certainly none in stressing peace, quiet, and dead space. The removal of the cars is important only because of the great opportunities it opens to make the streets work harder and to keep downtown (read: urban) activities compact and concentrated. ……. The whole point is to make the streets more surprising, more compact, more variegated, and busier than before-not less so.”  

— Jane Jacobs