This on-going project reflects the rapid urbanization in Chinese coastal cities and ever-changing socio-political developments in China, questions how post-modern ruin see creating utopia as a kind of spiritual salvation, and the poetic visual representation of ongoing ruination process.
The project is based on the history and political plan of coastal economy, connecting community needs and individual needs. Under the premise of marine ecosystem protection, solve housing problems and explores the sustainability of a future living model for the coastline. This practice explores intimacy as inherently a spatial phenomenon, how to create spaces through the establish of relations between inter-species practices and space. Discuss the intimacy's time-space dimension, build-ability and immediacy. And uses materials' affective dimension to trigger associations and psychological responses
Through "site-space-content" building incubators that "allows intimacy to happen" to create a seaside intimacy community. The urban design based on the concept of future realistic design that speculate new concepts of urban design and public engagement to educate and create awareness about more sustainable, flexible, and mindful approaches to building and living.
Coastline Utopia — Audio: Sean Hayman, 2017, Deep Believe (On da Way Mix), 【used 01/19/2021】
Scientists extract biological material from a kind of new coral to construct movable utopia that can float on the sea surface. These artificial biological spheres will not occupy or change the coastline and is friendly to marine ecosystem. The biological architecture has “cell division” process that will generate incubators. Each incubator provides communities spaces to create intimacy and intimate site.
The first series of incubators focus on self-intimacy space. Dispersive particles converge through users’ consciousness to create a concrete Buddha. Through mindfulness process, users could establish a mild relationship with healthy ego and neurotic ego (David Richo).
Community Equipment I — Instruction for Equipment I: 1. Each side for male/female. People has special idiosyncrasy can choose freely. 2. Self-aligning and enjoyment. 3. Chat even make physical contact with other users.
Community Equipment II — Instruction for Equipment II: 1. Rest your head on the pillow 2. Enjoy the shared space with the other user 3. Feel relax to the interlaced conversation with the other user’s body
Community Equipment III — Instruction for Equipment III: 1. Put your head into a frame 2. Wait for others to join 3. Enjoy the dizziness, eye contact and kiss with other users.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/community-equipment-ii-ada576065dd340f4beb050bec3091350
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/community-equipment-iii-908277377b0844a3a97d168c555e5536
The other series of incubators will provide a series of ‘gym equipment’ for community. These objects encourage interaction between users and emphasize the relationship between bodies and social space from everyday rhythmic temporal structures (Edensor, 2010).