OCT Loft is one of the instances depicting an urban setting
that uses revitalization as a tool to develop a space; dissimilar to most other parts of Shenzhen, including the adjacent
neighborhood where tabula rasa has occurred and developments are based solely on new
construction. OCT Loft has reached the
point of development that, nowadays can be juxtaposed to its neighboring
context in the OCT district.
The physical boundaries of the two districts are bounded by a two-lane street that does not initially seem
significant. The invisible boundary
between the two districts is what I am interested in exploring and where I am trying to
intervene. Although the two districts
are situated close to each other, there seems to be an invisible wall that
separates the dialogue, making the two sides a disconnected context.
The intervention will become a performance architecture that
connects and creates dialogue between the two highly contrasted districts amidst its
adjacency. The architecture will create
interaction (visually, physically) between the two greatly juxtaposed communities by means of situating a transformative performances space in between the
invisible boundary.
