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The relationship of attractor points and the hierarchy of sizes of space
The Labyrinth Border City Urban habitat for border-crossing and detours
The present modern capitalism world pursues materialism in our everyday life.
experiencing the feeling of adventurous, liberal, nomadic life through an urban architecture.
Brands, commodities and the superior social
The precedent study on the “psycho-
2019.01-04 / Lo Wu
status shifted the people’s social values about
geography” concept led us to think about a
Studio project
‘desires’. This project is a critical response
different urban habitat that movement and
to the problematic ‘society of the spectacle’
choices can shape the city in the format of
and explores the true human ‘desires’ of
labyrinthine network.
Identify focal points to vary the size of placemaking interventions
Connection with transport terminals
Identify primary and secondary circulation
This
project
applied
the
labyrinthine
border-crossing
experience
that
connects
network of natvigating for desirable activities
people to leisure, nature and accidental spaces
to border-crossing. Based on the methodology
for social life. This presents a relationship
of hypothesising detours in 3 scales of spatial
between making detours in circulation and the
interactions, the project revealed a distrubuted
planning of public space.
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Typologies of labyrinthine circulation and different types of public space treatment
Crossing above Shenzhen River
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Circulation Checkpoint Concourse Shops Seatings Private Zones Garden
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Checkpoint concourse
Detour in more porosity, further away from main circulation
Axonometric section
Detour between shops, closer to the main circulation