OPEN’s Exhibition design for the Shanghai Project @ Himalaya Museum   This project is an experiment to break down the spatial barriers from conventional museum structure between the artwork and artwork, and between the art and the public, thus establishing a new kind of relationship between arts, in this case, the Projects, and between the Projects and the Public.

To envision a future where people all live along the coast and leave the mainland free for nature, which will become a publically accessible international vacation resort.

To relocate Songzhuang, the artists’ village facing urgent threat of demolition, into the dormant old core of the coastal city Shanhaiguan, and reactivate a forgotten history. To protect those marginal art and artists; and to effectively stimulate the potential of this under developed town -- one stone two birds.

To envision a future city consisting of a series of micro-cities with radius 3kmand are all connected by public transportation. Inside the micro-cities, homes, workplaces, cafés, restaurants and shops are all within walking and cycling distance.  

To imagine a future world with no countries but different cities; and cities are all connected by seaports, airports, railways and highways. The natural landscape in between will be shared by all.

How do we learn to stop building new eco-cities, and love our old cities? It is clear to the world that China has experienced a phenomenal growth both in terms of its urbanization and wealth over a very short period of time in recent history. It is generally predicated that by 2025, more than 350 millions people will migrate into cities, and by 2030, more than 1 billion people will be living in cities.

As an unavoidable consequence of the global urbanization, cities became a hostile environment for most of its inhabitants. Rather than being a place of communication, appropriation and production, public places are transformed into an arena where people struggle to survive: due to the increasing number of the urban population, it is more and more difficult to provide all the necessary services to everyone.

An installation made for the “wedding” project at the Para-site gallery in Hong Kong. “san-da-jian” or 3 big items, is a popular term to describe three very important and symbolic daily objects in the period of 60th and 70th in china – the wristwatch, the sewing machine, and the bicycle.

Floating Tiananmen and Adorning Tiananmen are two installations concepts for the Tiananmen Square. Each of the concepts highlights the sky realm and ground space of the symbolic square, enriching the public space through design imagination.  

Give art works the space they need, thus they will not just games for the architect or symbols for power and profit. Simple, pure and open, the exhibition space is like a theater, architecture retreats as the backdrop. Curator is the director, directing art works in the constantly changing drama. Collections become visible, the storage will become a new kind of exhibition.

At the request of OUTLOOK magazine, three different concepts are conceived to imagine how to deal with the 2010 shanghai world expo pavilions. By stacking them, by floating them, or by building over them, these expo pavilions will be saved without judgment on their values, beauty or nationality. While they will serve the different purpose and functions in the future, the symbols of this phenomenal extravaganza will be transformed and integrated into people’s life, and ultimately the city. Better city better life. Be thrifty, no waste.

Mass Customizable Housing (MCH) is a program designed to democratically and interactively engage the ordinary end users in the process of making one’s ideal house. Each house is customized to fit individual family’s life style; each housing community is collectively planned and tailored to the need of co-op residents. It is a challenge to the currently accepted social code – only those with enough resources can afford to have architect designed (customized) dwellings, while the majorities have their individual life styles defied by homogeneous collective housing. It also aims to bring a revolution to industries related to housing constructions.

As an alternative to the life and death kind of struggle between Old and New now or the “fake” historicism of the recent past, we imagine another way Beijing could be developed. “Exploding” the old city, where authentic fragments of the old city relocated to grow with the new urbanization. These fragments forms the center of each new district of development at outskirt of Beijing, while also allows ultra modern development to penetrate into the old city center, to inject new energy.