Surreal Beijing in 3 Second Pauses
The compression of time and space makes Beijing City in people's impression become surreal. The anisotropy of singularity collides, juxtapositions and even penetrates with each other in space and time. Is the world around us surreal or real?
The compression of time and space makes Beijing City in people's impression become surreal. The anisotropy of singularity collides, juxtapositions and even penetrates with each other in space and time. Is the world around us surreal or real?
When the object has a metaphysical "vacancy" and the building has a "vacancy" for practical needs, the section running through the city shows the truth of life in Beijing, and the distortion, flipping and stacking of reality shape the unreal urban physical space. We try to find Francis Bacon in Beijing's urban context from the Temple of Heaven suspended by balloons, the CCTV building hanging upside down in the air, and the deconstructed siheyuan.
We test how to deal with the paradox of space in the urban context of Beijing by creating a series of hypothetical architectural moments.
In surreal city No.1, the Temple of Heaven is lifted up by a balloon. In surreal city No.2, a shrunk-down municipal building has emerged from a rotten apple core to support Beijing's CCTV Headquarters. In surreal city No.3, A group of deconstructed Beijing Siheyuan buildings are scattered and floating in the urban space. In surreal city No.4, we played with architecture scale to nest a modern city within a Gothic church. In surreal city No.5, we flip city-sky upside down and have city inhabitants blocked by an invisible shelter. In surreal city No.6, we have people flying from all directions, high above the sky, hovering over a community church. In surreal city No.7, we create a small cottage on farmland, with a mysterious Islamic church hidden down the earth. In surreal city No.8, the roof of a building hung upside down in the sky, with trees growing on the north side of the roof. In surreal city No.9, a part of an apartment building, a sculpture of a human head and an upside-down building coexist in one space. In surreal city No.10, we have the midtown towers floating in the air, fleeing from the zoning code. In surreal city No.11, a small observatory window points towards a little cabin in a small room, and there is a large space hidden behind the window. In surreal city No.12, a group of peaked buildings is buried in the mountain. In surreal city No.13, one wall is bent by an unseen force.
These profiles that run through cities or lives can make cities or our lives surreal. All these frozen moments are mysterious and discrete moments of life. As the sky descends and the suspended city fragments rise, a cultural matrix of Beijing that exists in the surreal world is formed.
