This is an exceptional exhibition design, fittingly corresponds to the large-scale group exhibition’s theme: The New Normal.

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.

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.

The vision is set for 2049, 100-year anniversary of communist China, with the hope for injecting idealistic and forwarding thinking into today’s architectural discourse, which is more often than not driven by the practicality of past decades’ economic boom and the fashionable form making.  Radically departing from the current mode of urban development, this research project investigates the possibilities of transforming a unique member of Beijing’s ring road highway system, the 2nd ring road, into a park zone with normal urban streets and active urban life, by 2049. 

The vision is set for 2049, 100-year anniversary of communist China, with the hope for injecting idealistic and forwarding thinking into today’s architectural discourse, which is more often than not driven by the practicality of past decades’ economic boom and the fashionable form making.  Radically departing from the current mode of urban development, this research project investigates the possibilities of transforming a unique member of Beijing’s ring road highway system, the 2nd ring road, into a park zone with normal urban streets and active urban life, by 2049.