Program: Pavilion, Community Center
Location: China
Period: 2011
PAVILION
Chinese saw a sudden marketization in the property market in the late 1990s. About 85% newly dwellings in China nowadays are gated communities. To the maximum interests of the market, most of the gardens of these communities are not accessible for public. They are enclosed and serve property owners. They disconnect with city fabric and have negative influences on social interaction.
In such highly commercialized society, is it still possible to maintain some spaces for the public? Is there a way to be “semi-public” and "semi-private"? Can an alternative model avoid these problems without sacrificing property owners' security? We try to provide a new strategy by addressing a semi-public space into the community. In order to establish a new type of interactive relationship between isolated communities in urban fabric, this relationship with public space and consume, public and private becomes not dividable. They are solved in a dynamic balance.
