People's Architecture
   Hui Wang / Yan Meng / Urbanus              

We also will give a presentation with two slide projectors, on the right side you get an idea of the general projects that we have been doing and on the left I will introduce a relatively narrow topic, one is called urban infill and deals with the public urban space, the other part is the urban re-fill which deals with the existing structures. We pose the question how to revitalize the existing structures and to put public events in those spaces.

We pose the question how to revitalize the existing structures and to put public events in those spaces.

In our mind CCTV is always perceived as a single object instead of a complex of different objects. We deal with it differently. For us each object has this distinct character. We hope the media park becomes the fourth object to complete the urban complex.

Our mission is to convert this industrial place into something interesting but our question remained what is something interesting?

We realize that the imagination of the architects is very limited so we have to test things one by one and then leave the imagination for people to create a space, architects are not very handy to make a space, but people are t

he force to convert dead space into something very active.

URBANUS, 3X3 #1 FUTURE | FAST | FORWARD, New York, April 17, 2006

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