THESIS STATEMENT
Since the late 1990s, urbanization of Chongqing has been facilitated by top-down infrastructural construction and private real-estate development. One pursuing speed and the other economic values, the discordance between the two forces created a cityscape that has marginalized the pedestrians.
Proximity no longer guarantees accessibility. The displaced connection between topography and building scales has cut off much of the access to the landscape, the view, and the civic functions.
Without necessarily negating the ambition for economic growth and the need for infrastructural networks, No-Stop Chongqing 2.0 seeks through architectural means to intervene with the current cityscape and to re-enact these lost accesses. It is an imagination of how we can better design a sectional city in a parallel reality.
