FIVE FICTIONAL CITIES - Double Scripted Urban Play - 2017

D OUBLE F I V E SCRIPTED FICTIONAL U R B AN C I T I E S P L A Y Fall 2017 - Bing Bu Visiting Critic Studio - Syracuse University School of Architecture

D OUBLE F I V E SCRIPTED FICTIONAL U R B AN C I T I E S P L A Y Fall 2017 - Bing Bu Visiting Critic Studio - Syracuse University School of Architecture

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Dora Yui Kei Lo & William Collins 8 - 37

Arcipelaghi Minglu Wei, Ying Zuo 38 - 73

INFOPOLIS Ran He, Nuofan Xu, Ziyao Zhang 74 - 101

{Bikotopia} Rongzhu Gu, Tsu-Yu Lee, Stephanie Wagner 102 - 125

Collage History Chishen Xu, Zhen Li 126 - 149

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INTRO | SYLLABUS Bing Bu

Immersive theater, aka interactive theater, is nothing new. But in recent years it has gained unparalleled popularity in recent years along with the continuous success of Sleep No Mo r e i n Ne w Yo r k a nd Shanghai. This studio project is about how to move forward with this trend and set up an entertainment form immersive within a real or fictional urban environment. A double scripting of the everyday urban life and the drama will be used to start the project. But students have to keep in mind that in an interactive theater, the timeline i n t r a d i t i o n a l s to r y te l l i n g

will be deconstructed into a spatial setting accessed and interacted by the audience without a preset sequence. In this way, the story becomes the architecture of not just places but also activities to be revealed in 3, or more dimensions if audience can trigger the story development‌ The final delivery will be the visualization of the setting and interaction design without an actual rehearsal.

Although this studio is set to be an experiment in a very blurred zone, it can have implications and applications to real world practice. It’s related to the world

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building in movie and theater practices. It can be applied to computer game design. It can even be turned into an actual theater project at a commercial development. But more importantly, the challenges we will face in this studio are actually the same challenges to today’s urban design, architecture, and performing arts. We have to think about how a piece of intellectual work can be perceived by today’s audience, a group grown up with computer games and internet, and now constantly distracted by information flow from their smartphones. If this audience group is the main reason behind the recent popularity of immersive theater, then what we see now is just the beginning of a lot of exciting changes, and architecture has to respond to such changes.

T h e s t u d i o o bj e c t i v e i s essentially to build a plausible quotidian story along with a play meant to entertain. The following tasks are required.

The World It is plausible.

It has accessible public space or commercial venues.

It can be a city either real or totally fictional.

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It mu st have i s s ue s a nd challenges like what we have in our world.

The Play It is NOT a linear structure.

It is spread.

It expects interactions and inputs.

It might connect online and offline contents.

It might adopt Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, or other technologies.

The Architecture Tectonics of the World Diagrams of the spatial structures of the Play Visuals of the everyday life and the drama Definition & Representation of a " theater "

Dora and Billy speculate about a future world dominated by drone surveillance and virtual/ augmented reality technologies.

The story happens in a double duality, the real and the virtual, also the world as an old city circled by a ring of instagram city. In the old city, people are experiencing more of projected virtual reality than the actual built environment, while in the instagram city, memories and

sensibilities are stored and computed constantly, results in ever changing skylines. A metamorphic glitch happening along with the motion of underground trains becomes the only possible space allowing dev i a nc e a nd fre e do m , ye t unknown in virtuality or reality.

Yi ng a nd M i ng l u s i tu ate a romance story in an extensive archipelago state with strict law of separating locals from visitors. The segregation issue here becomes both geographical and political, so resulted the p roj e c t t i t l e . T he ro m a nc e i s d i s t r i bute d i nto s e ve r a l scenes including encountering, escaping, and reunion, to test the system at various scales from buildings to urban plazas and alleyways. Personal perspectives and axonometric total views are always paired as reference to each other, also reflecting the contradictions between the authority and the individuals.

and on the other side by the rather tactical city metabolism progress. 6 distinctive characters are put into the scenes to unfold and verify the fictionally built environment in details.

Re l i g i o n p o l i t i c s , s h a r i n g economy, and postindustrial city, those seemingly irrelevant issues were brought together by Charlie, Rongzhu, and Stephanie into a utopian world dominated by bicycles.

Chisheng & Zhen made a time traveler's story to reflect on the mass production of faked historical neighborhood and either un-successful or oversuccessful tourism business i n tod ay ' s C hi ne s e c itie s .

Forms of entertainment and consumerism, today and in the past were both studied to make the foundation of the story.

3 i s s ue s r e f l e c te d by Ra n , Nu o f a n , a nd Z i y a o i n t h i s project are social polarization, junk information, and censorship, all happening in a vertical city with 3-dimensional transportation. The urban scape is shaped on one side by 2 authoritative forces, the Vertical Mass Transportation Stations and the (Info) Jamming Towers,

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“Ever since the introduction of the Emergency Surveillance Act we’ve seen crime almost completely disappear from our streets!”

Normally a politician saying this would get crowds cheering, fireworks shot off and parades in his honor. However, the crowd that was compelled together in the square remained silent. Almost as silent as corpses.

Everyone knew that he was just putting on an act. Showing up in the square at high noon, when he knew everyone would already be there. It was a center of commerce for the neighborhood and, during business hours, God help anyone who at least didn’t appear to be productive. Drones buzzed overhead and the civil guard mingled noticeably with the crowd. Everyone was on display, captured by the watching eyes of mother government.

Everyone knew that what he was saying wasn’t true. Well, it was half true. Crime had, by and large, disappeared from the streets. It was dangerous to be caught outside after dark without a specific purpose. There’s no reason for you to be out after dark! The government had declared. Many people joined the ranks of the so-called “disappeared” after so much as a nocturnal stroll, never to return.

People were then forced to take their activities—both legal and illegal— elsewhere. They colonized spaces like basements, subways tunnels and abandoned warehouses, always careful to hack into and use the city’s virtual reality technology to mask their activities. Eventually they discovered that glitches in the programing could be used to their advantage—that they could move in the space between the virtual and the real worlds, a sort of “worldbetween-the-worlds.” This place, these deviant spaces, is where people go to live.

I reflect on this as I walk around the square with my tour group, all of us listening as our guide picks up where the politician left off. We are told of how wonderful our lives are, how great our society is as we all curse the sun and cannot wait to disappear into the deviant spaces. I look over my shoulder and see the police chasing a pair of young lovers—apparently a drone caught them in the act of a public display of affection. I hope they can get away, but I know they can't.

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I could barely remember her. Memories are lost in the clouds.

No, literally the Cloud - the central memory storage system that backups memories of the deceased. I could still faintly recall her white sundress flying in the summer breeze, her smile tasted of sea salt. Her hands warmer than the heated sand. They have wiped out the memories of her from me. What is her Instagram name? I couldn’t remember her anymore.

I walk in the instacity like a ghost, searching for any remains of her.

A post from long-forgotten holiday somewhere in Europe, or just a selfie of her beaming brighter than the sun. Where are you? The Instagram gods on the buildings only grinned.

She is not in the Hashtag Bridges either. I run and run along those never-ending corridors, brushings shoulders with strangers swarming to worship the newest trend and gods. It was here, right here, where I last saw her, 20 years ago. The bridge was called #insta_sunset, the most beautiful place to watch the sun going down. Now it is just called #tbt.

She has to be in the Dank. It is all the way down the instagram city, a quiet dark place for storing deleted profiles and data. I walked all the way to the edge of the water, close my eyes and try to picture her in my mind. Now I see her, the water stirs as they pixelated into the ghost of her, walking towards me with arms wide open.

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Historical City

Virtual Facade (Outskirt)

Glitch

Themes Virtual/Augmented Reality Interior/Exterior Urbanism Freedom/Control Surveillance Shared Spaces

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MEMORIAL TOWER

URBAN SPRAWL

SUBWAY STATIONS

UNDERGROUND CENTRAL PARK

Cemeteries and other forms of storage of the deceased are no longer needed. Personal memories are recorded through the virtual network, thus humanities becomes ‘immortal’. Relatives and Friends can easily find comfort from the deceased by either interacting with the projected avatar of the dead, or visiting the Voice of the Dead Room to talk to their loved ones. Virtual Reality enables full privacy while they seek for a moment of peace.

Citizens reside in the dark residual space in between skycrapers to stay away from the wary eyes of the surveillance tower. The absolute privacy is compromised as the bedspace houses faces each other is close proximity.

It is a portal to travel in both reality and virtual reality. The station is divided into two sections, and citizens are free to travel between two worlds at certain times.

Historical buildings pose the limitation of further urban development. This park is constructed through virtual reality to act both as a recreational space and a designated inner city public space to foster comunity bonding.

SURVEILLANCE DRONES Drones are used to scan through the city from above, reaching to alleys and isolated areas of the city. The collected data are then sent to the central security unit for surveilTHE SUN DIAL SYSTEM lance purpose.

THE SUN DIAL SYSTEM

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The Surveillance Tower serves as the pointer in the sun dial, which indicated when and where the citizens should be active in, indicated by the light emitted from the tower.

The tower is developed over the existing castle, which once was the stronghold of the city of St. Mark.

URBAN SPRAWL Citizens reside in the dark residual space in between skycrapers to stay away from the wary eyes of the surveillance tower. The absolute privacy is compromised as the bedspace housesfaces each other is close proximity.

MEMORIAL TOWER Cemeteries and other forms of storage of the deceased are no longer needed.

Personal memories are recorded through the virtual network, thus humanities becomes ‘immortal’.

Relatives and Friends can easily find comfort from the deceased by either interacting with the projected avatar of the dead, or visiting the Voice of the Dead Room to talk to their loved ones.

Virtual Reality enables full privacy while they seek for a moment of peace.

UNDERGROUND CENTRAL PARK

MEMORIAL TOWER

URBAN SPRAWL

SUBWAY STATIONS

Cemeteries and other forms of storage of the deceased are no longer needed. Personal memories are recorded through the virtual network, thus humanities becomes ‘immortal’. Relatives and Friends can easily find comfort from the deceased by either interacting with the projected avatar of the dead, or visiting the Voice of the Dead Room to talk to their loved ones. Virtual Reality enables full privacy while they seek for a moment of peace.

Citizens reside in the dark residual space in between skycrapers to stay away from the wary eyes of the surveillance tower. The absolute privacy is compromised as the bedspace houses faces each other is close proximity.

It is a portal to travel in both reality and virtual reality. The station is divided into two sections, and citizens are free to travel between two worlds at certain times.

Historical buildings pose the limitation of further urban development. This park is constructed through virtual reality to act both as a recreational space and a designated inner city public space to foster comunity bonding.

UNDERGROUND CENTRAL PARK

SURVEILLANCE DRONES

THE SUN DIAL SYSTEM

Historical buildings pose the limitation of further urban development. This park is constructed through virtual reality to act both as a recreational space and a designated inner city public space to foster comunity bonding.

Drones are used to scan through the city from above, reaching to alleys and isolated areas of the city. The collected data are then sent to the central security unit for surveillance purpose.

The Surveillance Tower serves as the dial, which indicated when and where be active in, indicated by the light emi The tower is developed over the existi once was the stronghold of the city o

Tempietto

Canal

SUBWAY STATIONS

SURVEILLANCE DRONES

It is a portal to travel in both reality and virtual reality. The station is divided into two sections, and citizens are free to travel between two worlds at certain times.

Drones are used to scan through the city from above, reaching to alleys and isolated areas of the city. The collected data are then sent to the central security unit for surveillance purpose.

Tempietto Tempietto

Old Castle Wall

Canal

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Old Castle Wall

Old Castle Wall

VIRTUAL REALITY AS ‘SKIN’ OF THE CITY The isolated, underdeveloped area is the industrial zone of the city, where the underprivildged and working class reside. While they work in here to support the machine and systems that runs the city, the virtual city provides them virtual comfort of a urban city and serves as a surveillance system over them.

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pointer in the sun e the citizens should itted from the tower. ing castle, which of St. Mark.

LIGHT AND PUBLIC SPACE

BETWEEN CITIES

Taking precedents from cathedral and theatre, skylights are used to signified desginated public space. The light is used both as a resemblance to the surveillance light from the tower as well as a tool to facilitates social surveillance.

At the edge of the two cities, the two forms of urbanism -interior and exterior- unfolds and becomes one.

The exterior facade carries on into and becomes the massing of the building.

LIGHT AND PUBLIC SPACE

INTERIOR URBANISM

Taking precedents from cathedral and theatre, skylights are used to signified desginated public space. The light is used both as a resemblance to the surveillance light from the tower as well as a tool to facilitates social surveillance.

Virtual Reality helps to construct an inner city within the city through carving out spaces from existing urban fabric. The result is a connective urban space that can be served for creative urban use.

The virtual skin envelops the skeleton of the city.

It is an dynamic billboard that stimulates senses in 3-D fashion. It is also a surveillance tool as it projects everything that citizens posted on social media as such.

FACADE AS SURVEILLANCE TOOL

VIRTUAL REALITY AS ‘SKIN’ OF THE CITY

BETWEEN CITIES

The isolated, underdeveloped area is the industrial zone of the city, where the underprivildged and working class reside. While they work in here to support the machine and systems that runs the city, the virtual city provides them virtual comfort of a urban city and serves as a surveillance system over them.

At the edge of the two cities, the two forms of urbanism interior and exterior- unfolds and becomes one. The exterior facade carries on into and becomes the massing of the building,.

The virtual skin envelops the skeleton of the city.

It is an dynamic billboard that stimulates senses in 3-D fashion. It is also a surveillance tool as it projects everything that citizens posted on social media as such.

INTERIOR URBANISM Virtual Reality helps to construct an inner city within the city through carving out spaces from existing urban fabric. The result is a connective urban space that can be served for creative urban use.

Piazza San Giovanni

Mercato Nuovo

Mercato Nuovo

Piazza San Giovanni

Basilica

Basilica

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Old City A city where virtual and augmented reality are both means of control and surveillance, and means of escape and resistance.

“That the state has forbidden to the individual the practice of wrong-doing, not because it desires to abolish it, but because it wants to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.�

- Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War

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A Virtual facade masking activity B Virtual park behind real facade C Commercial center D Virtual reclaimed subway tunnel E Perceptual space of virtual worlds F Hole in VR caused by drone G Surveillance drone H "Approved" Activity I Active subway tunnel

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Instagram City A city of digital memories frozen in time.

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LEGEND A Hollywood - Authority Center B Hashtag Bridges C Post-Cube D The Dank - Compressed Data E Memorial Towers F Virtual Meeting with the Deceased

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“Architecture occupies the role of the static frame through which motion progresses.”

“Motions and metamorphosis of space at different scale ... individual, a building, a block, a city.”

Animated Form, Greg Lynn

Metamorphic Glitch Resilence, Deviant Space and Freedom.

I stood on the edge of the platform. It was cold in the subway station, normal for this time of year. I popped my lapels a gathered them close to my face, my hat tilted down over my eyes. I stared past the bright lights of the station, into the blackness of the tunnel. Where was this train? I thought, getting more nervous and needing my fix more badly with each passing tick of the station clock’s second hand.

Finally, a dim light appeared in the tunnel. The sound of metal wheels screeching against a turn of the tracks becoming ever louder. My heart beat faster with anticipation. The metallic beast rushed past me. My opportunity. In the VR wall—a glitch! An opening to the so-called deviant spaces. I dashed to the portal, throwing myself into the darkness.

The train passed; the glitch, gone, almost as soon as it appeared. I had at least until the next train to enjoy myself here—out of the way of the drones, the secret police and the spies. Welcome to the City of Babylon, the city of vice and sin. Ever since the government started its surveillance program all the so-called “undesirable” elements— legal or illegal—of the city were forced into hiding. Ordinary people craved to get away from the prying eyes of mother government, to be free to act as they want and not as they “ought.” They found their home in the deviant spaces, spaces between the virtual and real worlds only accessible through glitches in the world’s programming.

Anything could trigger a glitch—the movement and sound of a subway car flying through a station, perhaps— and the government was always looking to patch them. Illegal as it is to enter these spaces, one must be always on guard.

I walked past the eclecticism of activities present here—bar after bar lined the “street,” punctuated only by the occasional strip club or moonshine distillery. I turned the corner and saw what I was looking for. The black market! An actual market lay before my very eyes, although unlike any other market on the surface. Here one could purchase anything one desired—illegal booze, false documents, or especially, and what I came here for, drugs.

Walking up to the dealer, he hands me my order.

Coming out of my trance I groggily look at my watch. 5:12! The next train is in 3 minutes! I rush back to my starting point. Faintly I hear the whistle, and slowly but surely the familiar screeching of metal wheels against the tracks comes to my ears. With a sudden gust of air the barrier between the two worlds dissolves.

The train has passed and the portal is closed. As I mix with the crowd, the other joyless souls getting off the train and walking mindlessly to work, I think of Dante: Lasciate ogni speranza, Voi ch’entrate.

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LEGEND A Subway Station B Virtual Central Park C Virtual Apartment/Street D Distortion of Virtual Envelop E Mannerist Glitch Portal F Cult Chapel G Speakeasy H Hot Tub

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Old City

Real Space

Perceptual Space Created by Virtual Reality

Diagram: Real vs. Perceptual Space Created by Virtual Reality

Perceptual Reality 1

Intersection of Perceptual Reality 2 Experienced Spaces

Diagram: Overlapping Nature of Virtual Spaces

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Instagram City

Followers' Piazza

Hashtag Bridges

Virtual Memorial Tower

Cloud

Metamorphic Glitch

Reality

Virtual Abstraction

Metamorphosis

Glitch

Momentum of Train

Discontinuity in Static Frame

Train Schedule/ / Spatial Accessibility

Sliding

Shifting

Intersecting

Spatial Metamorphosis

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The Arcipelago/Arcipelaghi

The Arcipelaghi is a fictional city. It consists of separate islands, segregation and fragmentation.

It is also a city consists of different layers of arcipelago.

The city is built up on a series of rules: 1.

The city located on the sea near the country's coastline, consists of 170 islands.

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It is an experimental special economic zone that had been developed recently by the government to respond to the gigantic population boom and environmental pollution of the mainland of the country.

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A government-leading migration of population has brought the city 10 million citizens from all over the nation.

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The urban planning of the city was conducted by the country's Planning Bureau, and the construction was executed by real estate tycoons and magnates.

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According to the Planning Bureau, the programs of the city is divided into ten parts: Housing, Factories and Warehouse, Art and Education, Business and Offices, Transportation hub (including airport, port, railroad station etc.), Government district, Hotels and Tourists Center, Commercial district, Public Squares and Public service center.

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As the most unique city in the entire world, Arcipelago has attracted an enormous number of tourists, thus tourism has become one of the most important parts of the city's economic system.

7. As the special economic zone, its city government values most of its effectiveness and economicalness. Other than its distinct location and spatial condition, the city is also famous for its efficiency and economic strength.

8. However, since the vast number of clamorous tourists might create distraction and interruption of the residents' lives and it might lead to the decrease of the city's efficiency, the government decided to enact a law which would forbid the outsiders to interact with local inhabitants. Tourists' activities were restrained in a certain area. It is illegal for them to step outside of that zone, and similarly, citizens were not allowed to enter the tourists zone. After the law had been enforced, lots of tourists complained about it. They wanted to fully experience the city and the local culture to fulfill their desire and curiosity. They protested the law since they had paid lots of money to enter the city. It was their right to stand within the city without limitation and interact with locals.

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illegal dealer encounter

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THE ARCIPELAGHI CONSISTS OF DIFFERENT LAYERS OF ARCIPELAGO, AND THE APPEARANCE OF THE ARCIPELAGHI DEPENDS ON HOW PEOPLE PERCIEVE THE CITY.

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INFOPOLIS Ran He, Nuofan Xu, Ziyao Zhang

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A Vertical Urbanism Influenced by Twisted Political Narratives.

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The Master plan is a collage of different urban textures worldwide. It is arranged in a reasonable way so that the island proves that this urban phenomenon can actually happen in anywhere around the world. The vertical city is a phoenomenon that violently built upon the existing under the political and commercial forces.

Service Station Upper District Structure Jamming Tower Zone

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Mix-use Station

Community Highline Hybrid Highroad

Vehicle Station

Interdistrict Highway

Pedestrian Station

Pedestrian Highroad

The second layer of the city is determined by the location of the vertical transportation stations. The vertical stations bring up the construction of inter-station routes. After that, the second layer of the city was developped simultaneously based on the location of the stations. The jamming tower are thus placed to fight against the commercial power.

Service Station Upper District Structure Jamming Tower Zone

Mix-use Station

Community Highline Hybrid Highroad

Vehicle Station

Interdistrict Highway

Pedestrian Station

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City Metabolism progress

Upper District Typology I

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Community Highline

Mix-use Station

Service Station

Pedestrian Highroad

Pedestrian Station

Public Density & Info Density

Unpper District Checkpoint Unpper District Info Density

Upper District Public Space

Public Space Upper District vs. Lower District

Station Vertical Massive Transportation Stations (VMTS) are the backbone of the city infrastructure. A multitude of skyscraping vertical columns support the dozens of new street levels above ground (highlines), but they also provide convenient and direct access up and down the city.

Within them are both pedestrian and vehicular access, which are strictly monitored and restricted to citizens with the corresponding access level.

Lower District Public Space

Lower District Info Density

Uncontrolled Info Density Upper District vs. Lower District

Jamming Tower Jamming towers are devices deployed by the central city government as a mean to control and censor media. Within its signal radius, all information is blocked.

We are particularly interest in it urban and architectural significance. As residents take on different attitude towards space that is void of media and information. The city skyline reflects the irreversible effect these towers cast on a dystopian urban configuration.

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Inside the Jamming Zone, the building facade is mostly controlled by govermental slogans. In here, information is strictly censored and controlled by political force.

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In the lower district, the building facade is occupied by individual-driven commercial forces. Many of them are quickly abondoned and thus created a information junkyard on the building facades.

Around the jamming zone is, building facade is largely controlled by large commercial forces.

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New editors become agents that destroy information instead of creating new information.

Vertical stations run through the city and makes up the largest transportation system. Radiating from them are highlines that run across different st. levels.

Atop the city are “meditation spaces� that are void of any information. The government impleted the zone for censorships but the city turned it into a unique space.

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The lower city is in a dilapidated statelack of government control. Self- constructed stuctures run uncontrolled and residents live in a minimal living environment.

Lower district architecture is granted with a high level of freedom: self-built structures, drivethrough restaurants that is built inside a vertical station...

Security checkpoints are placed through the entire city- for security reasons.

They safeguard the benefits of the upper class.

“Why, If you’re a man, you take us it.“lowers need to live, too.“ [wakes up]

Jogging around the vertical garden.

Jogging around the vertical garden.

Visited the graveyards on the way to

[encounters vito]

[encounters Seb]

visit his own drive through restaurant

[encounters Pip/Petrov] Passes by mall on his way to the station

[fires mark for his mistake]

Arrives at Seb’s restaurant, fired Arrives at the Lower Library [conflict w/ because of moonlighting.

Connor]

Bourgeois Confromist

“All men are equal, uppers are more equal than lowers.“

Vito Müller

[end script]

O Tchairsmatic U N I Srenegade T fortuitous entrepreneur T H E S TMHUEG O G PL P ER

L E S Mdisciplinarian A N working class paradigm T H E O FTFHI CE E SRA imperious

TH

“First theyyou blocked our sacred radio signal, and I did not speak out, because I do not listen “You will rue the day when cross the line between upper and lowerfor to the radio; then jammed our TVs and cut our Internet, and there was no one it is the boundary between order andthey chaos. “ to speak out to.“

“I used

[wakes up]

Jogging around the vertical garden.

Visited the graveyards on the way to Jogging around the vertical garden. station

[encounters vito]

[encounters Seb]

“Why, us lowers need to live, too.“

[encounters Mark] [end script]

[wakes up]

Takes train to upper district.

Begins daily patrol around mall

Takes train to upper district.

[encounters Pip] Patroling the lower district through station.

Arrives at lower internet cafe and browses for new jobs [arrests Vito]

[encounters Petrov] Arrives at lower library and reads. [encounters Connor]

Pass through Seb’s to get food Accepted bribe from Vito. [releases Vito]

[end script]

[encounters Seb] Reporting back at publishers

Conner Petrov [encounters Pip] O’brien Garcia

Goes to lower library [encounters Vito]

Pip Lao

[end script]

[end script]

[end script]

E-1: R’s Working Path

E: R’s Restaurant G: The Sandwitch

THE EDITOR

working class paradigm

“First they blocked our radio signal, and I did not speak out, because I do not listen to the radio; then they jammed our TVs and cut our Internet, and there was no one to speak out to.“

J : Checkpoint E: R’s RestaurantG: The Sandwitch

R’s Restaurant E-1: R’s WorkingE:Path

J : Checkpoint

E-1: R’s Working Path

J : Checkpoint

M : Temporal Living Space

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

M : Temporal Living Space

sympathetic condoner

“I used to write books for a living, now I erase words off my creations.“

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

Takes train to upper district.

L: Library [encounters Pip]

Takes train to upper district.

M : Temporal Living Space [encounters Petrov] P: Forward Publishing L: Library G-1: Upper Sitting Room Arrives at lower library and reads.

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

P: Forward Publishing Arrives at lower internet cafe and browses for new jobs

L: Library

[encounters Connor]

Pass through Seb’s to get food

[end script]

[encounters Seb]

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

Pip LaoPath E-1: R’s Working

[end script]

D: Station

E: R’s Restaurant

C: Vertical Garden

Station F-1: MeditationD: Temple Interior

P: Forward Publishing M : Temporal Living Space

E-1: R’s Working Path

E-1: R’s Working Path

J : Checkpoint

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

K: High Line Park

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

F: Meditation Temple B-1: APPLE Store

G: The Sandwitch E: R’s Restaurant

K: High Line Park

L: Library

F: Meditation Temple B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

#SD-67 P.O.P

#SD-67 P.O.P

G-1: Upper Sitting Room B-1: APPLE Store

L: Library F: Meditation Temple

CHECKPOINT

CHECKPOINT

G: The Sandwitch J : Checkpoint F-1: Meditation Temple Interior K: High Line Park

E: R’s Restaurant D: Station C: Vertical Garden

G: The Sandwitch

sympathetic condoner

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

Pass through Seb’s to get food

P: Forward Publishing B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

[end script]

[end script]

[end script]

“I used to write books for a living, now I erase words off my creations.“

Arrives at Seb’s restaurant, fired because of moonlighting.

C: Vertical Garden

[encounters Vito]

Petrov [encounters Pip] Garcia

THE EDITOR

[encounters Pip/Petrov]

Petrov Garcia G: The Sandwitch

Reporting back at publishers [encounters Seb]

Conner O’brien

“First they blocked our radio signal, and I did not speak out, because I do not listen “You will rue the sacredour lineTVs between and lowertoday the when radio;you thencross theythe jammed and cutupper our Internet, andfor there was no one it is the boundary between to speak outorder to.“ and chaos.“

Visited the graveyards on the way to station

P: Forward Publishing

Accepted bribe from Vito. [releases Vito] Pass through Seb’s to get food

T H E S A L E S M A N working class paradigm T H E O F F I C E R imperious disciplinarian

[wakes up]

THE SALESMAN

Arrives at lower internet cafe and browses for new jobs

[arrests Vito]

Escapes back to the smugglers’ den Goes to lower library

Vito Müller

[end script]

G: The Sandwitch

Patroling the lower district through Pip] [encounters station.

[encounters Pip/Petrov]

Passes by mall on his way to the station Arrives at Seb’s restaurant, fired

goes back home

[wakes up]

Begins daily patrol around mall Takes train to upper district.

because of moonlighting.

Mark Arrives at the Lower Library [conflict w/ Connor] Korhonen Pass through Seb’s to get food

goes to the meditation temple to meditate

Mark Korhonen

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

fortuitous entrepreneur

[encounters Vito]

[end script]

“Why, lowers needNobody to live, too.

“Nobody can give youusupper status. can“ give you free information access.

If you’re a man, you take it.“

[fires mark for his mistake]

THE OPPOTUNIST

Goes to lower library

[encounters Mark]

[end script]

visit his own drive through restaurant

Sebastien Stannis

station

Pass through Seb’s to get food Escapes back to the smugglers’ den

goes back home

Figure & Storyline THE RESTAURAUNTER

[wakes up]

Mark Korhonen

goes to the meditation temple to meditate

Sebastien Stannis

“You w it is the

[wakes up]

E: R’s Restaurant

M : Temporal Living Space

B-1: APPLE Store E-1: R’s Working Path

J : Checkpoint

J : Checkpoint

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

G: The Sandwitch C: Vertical Garden A: Station Lower Exit

E: R’s Restaurant

E-1: R’s Working Path

D: Station

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior L-1: Library Storage Room

Play Structure & Scenes

P: Forward Publishing

E: R’s Restaurant

L: Library

G: The Sandwitch P: Forward Publishing

F: Meditation Temple N: The Bar

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

D: Station

Play Structure & Scenes B-1: APPLE Store N-1: Registration

P: Cyber Cafe

L: Library

Play Structure & Scenes

M : Temporal Living Space G: The Sandwitch E-1: R’s G-1: Working Path Upper Sitting Room J : Checkpoint M : Temporal Living Space

L-1: Library Storage Room G-1: Upper Sitting Room

E: R’s Restaurant

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

K: High Line Park

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

L-1: Library Storage Room

E-1: R’s Working Path PublishingJ : Checkpoint P: Forward

G-1: Upper Sitting Room E: R’s Restaurant L: Library

C: Vertical Garden K: High Line Park P: Cyber Cafe A: Station Lower Exit

A: Station Lower Exit G: The Sandwitch

J : Checkpoint

E-1: R’s Working Path

F: Meditation Temple

P: Cyber Cafe

M : Temporal Living Space J : Checkpoint

B-1: APPLE Store CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

N: The Bar P: Forward Publishing C: Vertical Garden

C: Vertical Garden P: Forward Publishing

C: Vertical G-1: Upper Sitting RoomGarden

L: Library

D: Station

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

L-1: Library Storage Room

C: Vertical Garden

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

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B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

L: Library

A: Station Lower Exit P: Cyber Cafe

C: Vertical Garden F-1: Meditation Temple B-1: APPLE Store Interior K: High Line Park

N-1: Registration

F: Meditation Temple L-1: Library Storage Room

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry K: High Line Park

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

M : Temporal Living Space

L-1: Library Storage Room

P: Cyber Cafe

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

Play Structure & Scenes

B-1: APPLE Store D: Station F: Meditation Temple

N: The Bar

A: Station Lower Exit

M : Temporal Living Space D: Station

K: High F-1: Meditation Temple(Station InteriorUpper B: B-Mall Exit) Line Park

D: Station

F: Meditation Temple

C: Vertical Garden B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

N: TheO:Bar Central Park Ruin - CemetryN-1: Registration

K: High Line Park

P: Forward Publishing F-1: Meditation Temple Interior K: HighLiving Line Park G-1: Upper Sitting Room M : Temporal Space

D: Station L: Library

A: Station Lower Exit

Play Structure & Scenes

N-1: Registration

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

F: Meditation Temple

B-1: APPLE Store

D: Station

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

N: The Bar

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

A: Station Lower Exit B-1: APPLE Store

N-1: Registration

L-1: Library Storage Room

P: Cyber Cafe F: Meditation Temple

K: High Line Park

B-1: APPLE Store

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

P: Cyber Cafe

“Why, us it. lowers need to live, too.“ If you’re a man, you take “ [wakes up]

Jogging around the vertical garden. [encounters vito]

Jogging around the vertical garden.

Visited the graveyards on the way to station [encounters Seb]

visit his own drive through restaurant

[encounters Pip/Petrov] Passes by mall on his way to the station

[fires mark for his mistake]

Arrives at Seb’s restaurant, fired Arrives at the Lower Library [conflict w/ because of moonlighting.

Connor]

Patroling the lower district through station. [arrests Vito] Accepted bribe from Vito. [releases Vito]

Vito Müller

[end script]

[encounters Vito]

[end script]

Reporting back at publishers

Conner O’brien

Goes to lower library

[encounters Mark]

[encounters Pip] [end script]

[end script]

TH U N I Srenegade T fortuitous entrepreneur THE SM U EG GOLPEPRO Tchairsmatic

E S Mdisciplinarian A N working class paradigm T H E O TF H F IEC ES RA Limperious

THE EDITOR

“Why, lowers needNobody to live, can too.“give you free information access.

“Nobody can give you us upper status.

If you’re a man, you take it.“

they blocked our radio signal, I did not speak because “You will rue the“First day when you cross the sacred line and between upper andout, lowerfor I do not listen tobetween the radio;order thenand theychaos. jammed it is the boundary “ our TVs and cut our Internet, and there was no one to speak out to.“

“I used to write books for a living, now I erase words off my creations.“

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

Visited the graveyards on the way to Jogging around the vertical garden. station

ertical garden.

[encounters Seb]

ough restaurant

[encounters Pip/Petrov]

Passes by mall on his way to the station Arrives at Seb’s restaurant, fired because of moonlighting.

Arrives at the Lower Library [conflict w/ Connor] Pass through Seb’s to get food

n temple to meditate

[encounters Mark]

G: The Sandwitch

Takes train to upper district.

Patroling the lower district through [encounters Pip] station.

[encounters Petrov]

Conner Petrov [encounters Pip] O’brien Garcia [end script]

[encounters Vito]

E-1: R’s Working Path

E: R’s Restaurant

E-1: R’s Working Path

J : Checkpoint

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[wakes up] L: Library Takes train to upper district.

Begins daily patrol around mall [wakes up]

rant, fired ing.

G: The Sandwitch G-1: Upper Sitting Room

[encounters Pip] Library Patroling the lowerL:district through station.

Arrives at lower internet cafe and browses for new jobs [arrests Vito]

P: Forward Publishing

v]

sympathetic condoner

E: R’s Restaurant [wakes up] M : Temporal Living Space Takes train to upper district.

G: The Sandwitch

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

M : Temporal Living Space

[encounters Connor] CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

Conner Petrov Station[end script] [encountersD:Pip] O’brien Garcia

C: Vertical Garden

[end script]

J : Checkpoint

Arrives at lower library and reads.

[encounters Seb] E: R’s Restaurant G: The Sandwitch R’s at Restaurant Reporting E: back publishers

C: Vertical Garden

E-1: R’s Working Path

[encounters Petrov] M : Temporal Living Space

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

Pass through Seb’s to get food Accepted bribe from Vito. [releases Vito]

get food

[end script]

Pip Lao

J : Checkpoint

THE EDITOR

on the way to

[encounters Connor]

[end script]

T H E S A L E S M A N working class paradigm T H E O F F I C E R imperious disciplinarian

P: Forward Publishing

Arrives at lower library and reads.

Arrives at lower internet cafe and browses for new jobs

Reporting back at publishers [encounters Seb]

[end script] [end script] E: R’s Restaurant

G: The Sandwitch

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

Accepted bribe from Vito. [releases Vito] Pass through Seb’s to get food

Escapes back to the smugglers’ den Goes to lower library

Vito Müller

sympathetic condoner

Begins daily patrol around mall Takes train to upper district.

[arrests Vito]

Mark Korhonen

take]

eneur

Begins daily patrol around mall

Pass through Seb’s to get food Escapes back to the smugglers’ den

goes back home

gure & Storyline

ois Confromist

[wakes up]

[wakes up]

Mark Korhonen

goes to the meditation temple to meditate

Sebastien Stannis

“You will rue the day when you cross the sacred line between upper and lower- for it is the boundary between order and chaos.“

[wakes up]

R’s Working Path P: ForwardE-1: Publishing E-1: R’s Working Path J : Checkpoint

Pip Lao

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

K: High Line E: R’sPark Restaurant

Meditation Temple Interior G: TheF-1: Sandwitch

D: Station

[end script] J : Checkpoint L: Library

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

E-1: R’s Working Path

J : Checkpoint

K: High Line Park CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

THE EDITOR

m

P: Forward Publishing

e I do not listen ere was no one

sympathetic condoner

C: Room Vertical Garden D: StationLiving Space G-1: Upper Sitting Room G-1: Upper Sitting M : Temporal Living Space M : Temporal

L: Library

P: Forward PublishingL: Library

“I used to write books for a living, now I erase words off my creations.“

F: Meditation Temple

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

[wakes up]

B-1: APPLE Store P: Forward Publishing

F: Meditation Temple

B-1: APPLE Store

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

L: Library

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

G: The Sandwitch

K: High Line Park

M : Temporal Living Space

E-1: R’s Working Path

E: R’s Restaurant

J : Checkpoint

Takes train to upper district.

istrict.

CHECKPOINT

CHECKPOINT

#SD-67 P.O.P

#SD-67 P.O.P

[encounters Petrov] CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

et cafe and

C: Vertical Garden

get food

Arrives at lower library and reads.

C: Vertical Garden D: Station [encounters Connor]

A: Station Lower Exit

G: The Sandwitch

F-1: Meditation Temple F-1: Meditation Temple Interior K: HighExit) Line ParkInterior B: B-Mall (Station Upper G: The Sandwitch E: R’s Restaurant L-1: Library P: Cyber D: Cafe C: Vertical GardenStorage Room Station

[end script]

PipE: Lower R’s Restaurant A: Station Exit Lao

Play Structure Play&Structure Scenes & Scenes

E-1: R’s Working Path

N: The Bar

L: Library

Exit Store F: Meditation Temple B-1: APPLE StoreA: Station Lower B-1: APPLE L: Library P: Forward Publishing N-1:(Station Registration O: Central Ruin - Cemetry F: Park Meditation Temple B: B-Mall Upper Exit)

Play Structure & Scenes

M : Temporal Living Space N-1: Registration O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry C: Vertical Garden

A: Station Lower Exit

Storage L-1: Library Storage Room L-1: Library P: Cyber CafeRoom C: Vertical Garden D: Station

D: Station

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

N: The Bar

K: High Line Park

N: The Bar N-1: Registration B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

F: Meditation Temple

B-1: APPLE Store

N: The Bar

N-1: Registration

A: Station Lower Exit

Play Structure & Scenes Play Structure & Scenes Play Structure & Scenes P: Cyber Cafe

N: The Bar

N: The Bar

N-1: Registration

CHECKPOINT #SD-67 P.O.P

B-1: APPLE Store F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

K: High Line Park

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

L-1: Library Storage Room F: Meditation Temple

P: Cyber Cafe

N: The Bar

N-1: Registration L-1: Library Storage Room

N-1: Registration

P: Cyber Cafe

B-1: APPLE Store

L-1: Library Storage Room

A: Station Lower Exit

Play Structure & Scenes

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

P: Cyber Cafe

N-1: Registration O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry F: Meditation Temple B-1: APPLE Store

A: Station Lower Exit

L-1: Library Storage Room

N-1: Registration F-1: Meditation Temple Interior K: High Line Park

F: Meditation Temple D: Station

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

A: Station Lower Exit

M : Temporal Living Space #SD-67 P.O.P

N: The Bar

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

L-1: Library Storage Room

B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit) C: Vertical Garden

#SD-67 P.O.P

CHECKPOINT

P: Cyber Cafe

Play Structure & Scenes

CHECKPOINT

K: High Line Park

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

L: Library

#SD-67 P.O.P

D: Station

J : Checkpoint

B-1: APPLE Store

CHECKPOINT

C: Vertical Garden

M : Temporal Living Space

E-1: R’s Working Path

L-1: Library Storage Room P: Cyber Cafe G-1: Upper Sitting Room M : Temporal Living Space

A: Station Lower Exit

Play Structure Play Structure & & Scenes Scenes

K: High Line Park

G-1: Upper Sitting Room

E: R’s Restaurant

P: Forward Publishing

A: Station Lower Exit

E-1: R’s Working Path

B-1: APPLE Store J : Checkpoint

F-1: Meditation Temple Interior

J : Checkpoint L-1: Library Storage Room P: Cyber Cafe P: Forward Publishing

G-1: Upper Sitting N: The Bar Room

L: Library

K: High Line Park Temple F: Meditation

G: The Sandwitch

F: Meditation Temple B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit) B: B-Mall (Station Upper Exit)

P: Forward Publishing

D: Station

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry P: Cyber Cafe

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

N: The Bar

N-1: Registration

O: Central Park Ruin - Cemetry

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Typical Lower Appartment

The unique structure of the city causes the financially depraved residents to live in a high density and chaotic neighborhood called the lowers. Here residents often adapt and create temporary structures to accomodate for their needs. Shared spaces are very restricted and little to none public space is present in these parts of the city. Self-built structures subdiving already tiny rooms are constructed to accomodate even more financially challenged people in the lower apartments. Spacially the rooms have a smaller ceiling height; light and air are almost non-existent especially closer to the ground.

Many commute to the Upper to make a living through the vertical towers. Some of these commuters would illegally “immigrate� to the Upper District.

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Typical Upper Apartment

In the upper part of the city, new apartment buildings are constantly erected on top of the existing structures. Driven by commercial needs these are only afforded by the wealthy part of the population.

Ranging from normal residential apartment towerers to highly luxurious condominiums, the upper was the city normality several decades ago. People enjoy normal living conditions, sunlight, air and public amenities.

Their privacy is protected by dozens of security checkpoints that only allow residents with the proper ID to pass through, thus excluding all lower residents from the streets or parks. Although most of these spaces are affected by the jamming signals, more and more developers have chosen to avoid the jamming zone to create even more spaces for the rich.

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Scene A: Lower Commercial

The lower commercial zone was once the old commercial street in the old city. Now it has transformed to one of the few public spaces for the lower residents to congregate. Peddlers, drug dealers and prostitutes infest the market at night - and the bottom of Infopolis is always at night. Artificial lighting illuminates the streets 24/7. The government exert and has not attempted to any power- simply because it takes too much maintanence and manpower.

Yet this urban phenomenon is not exlusive. In our cities we often forget about the security sunlight and artificial lights provide. The dystopian environment in Infopolis is a fitting extrapolation of how verticality in cities would affect the ground level. And it is a prediction of urban problems our major cities would soon face.

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Scene G: Sandwich House For those who are rich enough, this is one of the best living apartment in this city with limited space. Aboundant sunlight and vertical garden at ground floor makes this place one of the most expensive apartemnts in this city.

For those who tries to smuggle to upper district, the thickness of structure in sandwich house is their temporal living space. They have to wait for government to confirm their death and claim a new identiy in the upper area.

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Scene P: Meditation Temple

New editors’ office become industrial-like spaces that dedicate the editors to a new function- censoring and destroying all offensive material. The state-controlled facility now effectively and efficiently collect, inspect, and destroy books and publications all within one building. Each day trucks of books are transported in and incinerated.

To many of the editors, their jobs have become an ironic occupation- instead of creating new information, they erase existing knowledge into oblivion. One of the main protagonists, Pip Lao, is one among these new disenfranchised occupation.

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Scene C: Vertical Garden

Vertical garden are a new urban mutation of the wide-spread phenomenon of “green architecture� in the 20s. Due to the tall elevation, vegetation requires a huge amount of energy and water to survive. Therefore these parks only occur in luxury condominiums for the upper part of the body.

Nevertheless, these parks created a new type of public space.

The upper citizens also use these spaces to speculate on the interesting lifes of lower citizens.

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Inspired by the typical restaurant style in country side of America, R’s restaurant provide a similar experience based on vertical transportaion methoud which prevails in this city.

The restaurant is one of the ad-hoc spaces cleverly thought of by an upper businessmanSeb. This almost resembles to a drive-through structure in the early 20s. Residents pass through the cashier in the vertical transportation trains and take their food from the serving station further up.

This scene is a re-imagination of traditional utilitarian spaces against the verticality of the city. This unique structure is only a corner of the mutations this city has to offer.

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Scene L : Library

The forbidden book library is probably one of the most illegal place in the city. Locating in the middle part of the city, the library camflouges as a restaurant. Only those who knows the true identity of this place can get access to those forbidden books in this information-limited city.

All the forbidden books are stored in gap between the false ceiling and the concrete slab. People have to be very careful when they get access to it. Reading is only allowed in the second floor.

Because of the actual program of this place, it has been destroied countless times in different locations in the city. However, someone could always find a way to reopen in another place.

No one knows who’s behind this mysterious place.

Forbidden books

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Scene F: Meditation Temple

Meditation temples are spaces created on the verge of the radio-broadcasting jamming signal.

These are the unique creations of Infopolis.

Instead of avoiding the jamming signal, these building embrace them as the ultimate space for spiritial clarity. They would oftentimes be attached to an existing structure such as residential tower as a gateway of cleansing.

When the government abolished all religions and “gods� in 2035, these buildings were not demolished- instead they were converted to represent new social ideals.

Artificial mock Japanese temple structure as the Meditation Tower.

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Route Map_Commercial Lines

The time travelling begins from 2017’s decaying commercial streets with several stalls outside, which is used for storage and temporary residence. Also, where the wormhole is, it could transfer to Han Dynasty’s market ---- Chang’an Nine Markets. The market is seperated from residence by bounding walls. There is a market building as an administrative office, shops and stalls. Then, another wormhole to Tang Dynasty. Two main markets are here in their own Lifang : The Datang East Market and the Datang West Market. In the Lifang, the roads divides the block to nine parts. Transfer to Ming Dynasty, when the neighborhood system has been cancled, the streets are open to citizens to do some business.

Back to now, the road is occupied by citizens. They get out of the wall and establish the night market for entertainment and profit.

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Route Map_Cultural/Entertainment Lines The cultural/Recreational line begins from 2017. In the center of a Lifang, there is a square where crowded people collect here to have some public activities like jugging, fortune telling or ferry. At night, stowaway smuggling to another block, different stories are performing: tourists are enjoying the movie night; in the morning, torists share the park with citizens in another Lifang. The park, where the wormhole is, it could transfer to Han Dynasty, there is not much entertainment except when Lantern Festival: Everywhere is lantern and almost all the people come out. Then, another wormhole to Tang Dynasty, afer cancelled the neighborhood system, some recreational places appear. The development of cultural and recreational life promotes the increase of public entertainment spaces, like pubs, temples and parks.

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TRANSITION SPACE (GREY SPACE) ------ Semi-underground Space

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