This is a fiction story response to urban imagination.
Statement: Cities, as well as the architecture, are the result of the human aesthetic and financial profit. To purchase the modern beauty and the maximal economy efficiency, cities are designed under the specific order and grid. However, the over-order and overly producing are going to the opposite ending- “Chaos”. The “Chaos” here not means the visually messy for the big image, but the mentally feeling of loss for the people who live in the city. Two narrative positions will engage in this game. One is the spectator, the authority or the designer of the city. Another is the participant, the citizens who are influenced by the form of the city and also who feel the air of the city every day.
With these two positions to view the theory of modernist urban development and sprawl, a fictitious city model can be figured out. To simplify this model, this city will include eight pieces of Chaos and one piece of Void in a 3×3 grid square. The whole area of the Chaos is designed following the rules of characterless and standard. Each piece of the Chaos is isolated created and becomes the outcome of massive homogeneity duplication. The daily schedule for the participant is to go out of the Void and work in the Chaos for life needs. Same as other cities, the people living in it will wake up every morning in their home(the Void) and work in the office(the Chaos) in the day time. The city is changing every second because the development never stops. In order to not lost in this city, the participant needs to take the intelligent city map equipment when he or she needs to go into the Chaos.
However, one day, a participant lost his city map when he was out of the Void. When people found him in the Chaos, he had slipped into a coma. The media interviewed him after he waked up in the hospital. He said that is the craziest and unimaginable experience he ever had in his whole life. On the basis of what he remembered, the media published his story which is the following passages in the local newspaper.
This work is done with a research paper comparing and analyze Melun Sénart by OMA and artworks by Sol Lewitt. To see the full paper.
Project Information
Location: Dundee, U.K.
Individual Work
Time: 2017.09 -2017.12
Advisor: Lorens Holm
