“Make New Hutong Metabolism”, Chicago Architecture Biennial
Photos by Su Shengliang
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The installation is named “Make New Hutong Metabolism”, presenting three projects located in the hutong areas of Beijing: Micro Yuan’er Children’s Library and Art Centre, Micro Hutong and Co-living Courtyard by architect Zhang Ke and his ZAO/standardarchitecture. It explores alternative perspectives of looking at China’s historical cities and their problems, to consider them as living organisms, to study them both as macro scale infrastructures and in micro scale units, to respond to the problems with both historic and futuristic thinking, and to explore the potential of old hutongs and courtyards as generator of communal spaces and catalyst of social interaction.
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