Productive Exuberance

08.2020 ~ 11.2020

This project was being designed under the proposition of Productive Exuberance, which is the studio proposition when I was an exchange student at Central Saint Martin. I finished the 'first iteration' of the project in 06.2017 with the amazing guidance from my tutor Adam Furman and Julika Gittner. But I always think I can do better than that, cause the topic was extremely fascinating for me.

Two years later, I am graduating from my university, and with a better understanding of architecture I started to redo this project from zero. This time I found that this project is very theoretical, it is also a conversation with the society. For a deeper understanding for Productive Exuberance I read some books like 'Delirious New York' and 'Revisiting Postmodernism' etc., they gave me lots of inspiration. This project is a architecture design as well as a reading note. The name is ' The Depo', it's for Aldgate East, for London and for this era that we live in.

PS. In this section of the portfolio, the text written in gray and italic are quotes from 'DELIRIOUS NEW YORK' by Rem Koolhaas

Tools : Rhino + Grasshopper,Twinmotion,Photoshop,Illustrator

Surrounding by various of markets, this place is visited by locals, travellers, sellers and consumers from all over the country. However, at this 'cultural center', the architectures are so monotonous that they can't speak for this wonderful spot in London.

Fiasco

"Everythingisstrippednaked by the dispassionate glare. The glare is everywhere, and nowhere a shadow.... The visitor is stunned; his consciousness IS withered by the Intense gleam; his thoughtsareroutedfromhis mind;hebecomesaparticle inthecrowd....”