Sci-Fi, Realized| The"Angel Moment"AboveHangzhou's Third Center
line+·"Future Cloud Coordinates"|An Urban Media Experiment on Yuhang's Central Axis
At a key node along Yuhang's central axis,
Future Cloud Coordinates-a floating art installation designed byZhu Peidong, co-founder and principal architect of line+-slowly lifts off.
A massive geometric form detaches from the ground,
like a future program still loading,
becoming the most striking urban signal along the axis.
At first glance, some recall the Angel from EVA-
pure geometry, anti-gravity suspension, a sense of the non-everyday.
Just as the fictional "Third Tokyo" is endlessly rebuilt to face the unknown,
Hangzhou's real "Third Center"is also undergoing continuous imagination, testing, and validation.
Yet this is not an anime homage,
nor merely a visual spectacle.
It is a real experiment-one that explores the intersection of architecture x technology x urban imagination.
From the grounded "Tower of Light"
to the airborne "Cloud Coordinates,"
the installation shifts through inversion and lift-off,
translating its own role:
architecture is no longer a fixed landmark,
but a perceivable, observable, discussable urban medium.
A lightweight carbon-fiber structure
frees large-scale form from gravity.
Its temporary, event-based nature
turns it into a momentary slice of the city's ongoing formation.
As night falls, light replaces mass,
reshaping the urban interface-
strange, captivating,
inviting us to imagine the future once again.
Project Name | Future Cloud Coordinates
Design Firm |line+ studio
Chief Architect/ Project Principal | Peidong Zhu
Gross Floor Area|225 m2
Photography | Chen Xi Studio