lost in speculation. architecture, china and me

LOST IN SPECULATIONARCHITECTURE, CHINA AND ME

SOME BASICS

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BASEEconomy

Means of productionRelations of productionObjects of production

maintains & shapes

shapes &maintains

Chinese National Real Land Price Index 35 Markets, Constant Quality Series

Inhabiting – Le Corbusier, The ideal man

Speculating - Christian de Portzamparc, One57

Still from The Big Short (2015)

Ghengis Khan Plaza in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The near-empty city is designed for 1.5m people

ANOTHERMOUNTAINMAN, Lanwei 04 : Fly Away, Guangzhou, China, 2006

RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

Ordos: a film by Charles Lanceplaine, 2012

A view of the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou August 1, 2013

Chinese newlyweds pose for wedding photographs in Thames Town on November 19, 2010 in Songjiang, China

IS IT (NET) WORTH?

HNWIHigh-Net-Worth Individual

A high-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a person with a high net worth. In the western, and primarily American, private banking business, these individuals typically are defined as having investable finance (financial

assets, excluding primary residence) in excess of US$1 million.

UHNWIUltra-High-Net-Worth Individual

By 2007, the expansion of HNWI assets led to the creation of a super class of HNWIs, known as Ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs), i.e. those with US$30 million in liquid financial assets according to the

Capgemini and Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report 2006 or with a disposable income of more than US$20 million.

UHNWIs – where do they live?

UHNWIs – what do they read?

Global Cities, the 2016 Report

UHNWIs – where do they go shopping?

MIPIM 2016, Cannes

SKYSCRAPER

摩天大厦 [mótiān dàshà]

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Vanity Height: the Empty Space in Today's Tallest, 2013

Render of Pudong, Shanghai, produced for the Chinese government in 2008

Changsha Sky City, 2010

Sky City One, concept brochure, 2010

Changsha Sky City One compared to other skyscrapers, 2012

Changsha Sky City One, 2012

Changsha Sky City One, groundbreaking ceremony, 2013

Foundations for Changsha Sky City repurposed as fish farm, 2015

Changsha Mini Sky City, 2015

GREEN

环保的[huánbăo de]

Vertical Forest Planetary Workshop (?) – Shanghai, October 2014

STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Bosco Verticale, 2009-2014

SITE, Highrise of Homes theoretical project, 1981

GIANANDREA BARRECA, GIOVANNI LA VARRA, STEFANO BOERI, MANFREDI CATELLA (HINES), International Highrise Award 2014

STEFANO BOERI, ALIDA FORTE CATELLA (COIMA), CTBUH 2015 Award (Best Tall Building Worldwide)

STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Renovation of No.501 Jiujing Rd, Shanghai, 2015

STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Guizhou 10 Thousand Peaks Valley Project, 2015

STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, GuizhouMountain Forest Hotel, 2015

STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI,Chongqinq Hortitecture, 2015

STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Shijiazhuang Masterplan, 2015

A Chinese businessman hid two illegally built extra storeys on his penthouse suite in Guangzhou with trees and plants

Illegal Mountain Constructed Atop a 26-Story Residential Building in Beijing

ARCHITECTURE

建筑风格 [jiànzhù fēnggé]

The Sifang Art Project site in Nanjing

The long story short

In 2002, Lu Jun decides to build a luxury-villas development on a piece of land in Nanjing

Nanjing architect Zhang Lei convinces Lu Jun to pursue a much more ambitious plan: build a luxury-villas development plus a luxury-towers development

To do so, Zhang Lei invites Arata Isozaki to invite about twenty international architects to design an “architecture park”

In 2008, Lu Xun, son of Lu Jun, leaves his postgraduate studies in London and helps his father in the managment of the project

1. STEVEN HOLL, Sifang Art Museum

2. LIU JIAKUN, Hotel Monochrome

3. ARATA ISOZAKI, Conference Center

4. ETTORE SOTTSASS, Recreation Center

5. ZHOU KAI, Hermit

6. SANAA, A Circle of Interaction

7. ZHANG LEI, Block House

8. MATHIAS KLOTZ, Pond Lily

9. DAVID ADJAYE, Light Box

10. MANSILLA & TUÑON, Fo-Shou

11. SEAN GODSELL, Shadows of Bamboo

12. ODILE DECQ, Flying Horse

13. LIU HENG, A Floded House

14. PHILIP F. YUAN, A Wonderland House

15. WANG SHU, San-He Residence

16. AI WEIWEI, Six-room

17. ZHANG YONGHE, Steel Lattice Railings Bd.

18. CUI KAI, House under Bamboo

19. ALBERTO KALACH, Waterside Pavilion

20. SANAKSENAHO, Boat House

Sifant Art Park

STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS, Sifang Art Museum, 2005-2011

EL LISSITZKY, Wolkenbugel, 1925

SOL LEWITT, Incomplete open cubes, 1974

STEVEN HOLL, Spatial Retaining Bars, 1989

SIMON UNGERS, Simon Ungers_Chemnitz Urban Design Forum, Perspective of City Center, 1995

OMA, CCTV Headquarters, 2008-2012

MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

Sifang Art Park, residential complex

Sifang Art Park, ruin of Odile Decq's unfinished Flying Horse project

Sifang Art Park, ruin of Liu Heng's unfinished Folded House project

Piece exposed in the Sifang Art Museum

Current exhibitions at the Sifang Art Museum

The long story short

Around 2005, Jiang Yuan Water Engineering decides to put a lot of money on a new luxury-villa development close to Ordos

To do so, they ask swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron to select 99 emerging architects that will design one 1000sqm villa each.

They accept and ask Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to design the masterplan and be the curator of the whole process. He also documents it and makes a movie out of it.

Arata Isozaki wasn't invited to the party :(

The architecs invited for the Ordos 100 project surveying the site, 2008

Ordos 100 masterplan

Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

Ordos 100 masterplan model in process, 2008

Ordos 100 masterplan model, 2008

RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

Ai Weiwei's Ordos 100 model at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2011

‘Ordos 100 : The inevitable cultural negociations when building a city in the 21st Century.’ An exhibition on architecture, urbanization and globalization, 2009

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