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T hree hundred years of industrial civilization has largely been characterized by the human conquest of nature. A series of recent global ecological crises have called the approach of industrial civilization into question. As a result, ecological civilization was born with the primary purpose of respecting and maintaining the ecological environment.

Our proposal’s site is the Shougang Factory in Beijing, China. It is one of the largest heavy industry bases in northern China, with numerous industrial buildings and equipment. This is not its first “interruption.” As early as the early 20th century, the intervention of industry turned the original agricultural society in the area into an industrial civilization. The Shougang Factory helped to make human commodities abundant and the economy in the region developed rapidly. But at the same time, the consumption of the earth’s resources and the damage to the environment have also accelerated sharply. Therefore, we seek to intervene here again in order to address the damage wreaked by industrial civilization by restoring the vitality of nature and making our living environment more pleasant.

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Our design renovates the original Shougang Factory building, turning the former steel production site to a site of plant cultivation. We introduce biotechnology to screen and select seeds and artificial intelligence to monitor the growth of seedlings. The former factory is taken over by “nature.” Such plant cultivation in former factory sites is gradually globalized, realizing the ecological restoration of the world after the grand “interruption” of world industrialization. In this way, we seek to change the narrative of human serving human to human serving nature.

An agrarian village on a harbor island at the mouth of Pearl River in Guangzhou, China, is dying. Most residents have moved away, but a few continue to maintain their lives there in the face of the brutal plans for urban development of their island. At the entry of the village, a derelict market structure is left abandoned. Wandering inside the village, elements of former, more prosperous times dot the landscape, random and decaying.

We see and hear of plenty of inspiring cases of revitalization of such derelict spaces, but sometimes you just have to interrupt the instinct for survival and accept death. The farmland will soon be gone. Those we spoke to are treasuring their last dance on the soil. Before it is too late, let’s build a cemetery to honor them in the market fair, trading space for memory trace. The melody of pastoral harmony is writing its last chapter, and the photographs and carved text on the tombstone shall exhibit the final lyrics. Here it comes, the elegy of the rural lands.