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Viva La Vida Metabolism Watery City on the East Lake
“That we had very strong urge to make a new beginning.”
Tabula Rasa
Modernism’s promise of transforming building quantity into living quality has been a failure. High density reinforced concrete “forest” insulated from mere meaning of a “forest”, only brings catastrophic experience for its dwellers. What ever happened to 20th century urbanism? Is there a new form of urban expansion that we could refer to? What if we simply define our relationship with city not as its makers, but just as its mere subject? Viva La Vida is a city constructed on the lake, self-feeding organic complex, compared to a lifeless concrete, steel, pollution cluster, it’s more like a mega Metabolism life form, a new typological tryout of ecological urbanism city of nature, where plants, animals, human beings live together in this utopian enterprise.
Xinwei Guo | xinwei_guo@outlook.com
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