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Super Babylon -- shared living community
Super Babylon -- shared living community
Beijing, China
Project Featured on May 16, 2023
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Super Babylon -- shared living community
Beijing, China
Project Featured on May 16, 2023
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Type
STATUS
Concept
YEAR
2030
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
Super Babylon is a proposal of a shared living community for the new generations in developed cities.
A half-century ago, Dutch situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys had invented a floating megastructure—The New Babylon. This giant construction was designed to anchor to the ground with columns which allow all the residential; consumption; entertainment and industrial areas to stay in the air and leave the ground level for transportation and public engagements. What Constant proposed, was a flexible and movable common habitation for humankind in the future which created free-drifting nomadic life and a fresh social experience in the city.
Today, millions of young people flock into the developed cities in China each year, and expensive property and rent prices have led to a significant number of people permanently vagabonding from a place to another. The pursuit of a better life and the desire to belong in the community have directly affected the development of youth-targeted apartment in recent years. After finishing numbers of apartment projects, we are looking forward to provoking a truly shared community which is not only able to provide the essentials of shared living mode but also project the social structure and the connection of it through space.
Each unit in Super Babylon is roughly 9-meter square which contains essential living elements such as beds; desks; wardrobes and an in-place toilet. This private personal space can accommodate the basic housing needs of a person or a couple, and 4-5 of these basic units around a shared living space could form a “family space”. The family space is a partly emptied two-level shared area, served as a communal kitchen; dining room; working and living space. Additionally, each family space has a shared outdoor terrace extended from living space as a yard for the family. Then every 4 to 5 of this strewn family spaces form an enormous collection of residences in the space. At the centre of this collection is a shared garden terrace, with steps and ramps connecting the public terraces of different heights. Also, several residential communal spaces together form residential buildings and communities. The upper level of each community is mainly used for residential purposes, while the ground floor is opened to the city for assembly, commerce, sports, and leisure functions.
The spatial and structural logic of Super Babylon was reversed from our social structure. Through the intervention of corners of cubic space, we determined the growth principle of typing. These three spaces in a progressive scale – residential community, family space and basic units are created in the steps of tertiary fission of the angular form, thus completing the transformation of space and social relations from the public - shared - private space just like a blossoming flower.
Super Babylon illustrates a social pattern of a shared community, which is stimulated by the growing desire for individual life-style and the social demands that is closely related to it. Super Babylon includes 4 types of various spatial and social relations: individual basic units, small family spaces, communal spaces among residences and collective community buildings. These 4 kinds of spaces have also overcome the dualistic antagonism of “individuality” and “collective” thus to create a truly shared community for young people in developed cities.
A half-century ago, Dutch situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys had invented a floating megastructure—The New Babylon. This giant construction was designed to anchor to the ground with columns which allow all the residential; consumption; entertainment and industrial areas to stay in the air and leave the ground level for transportation and public engagements. What Constant proposed, was a flexible and movable common habitation for humankind in the future which created free-drifting nomadic life and a fresh social experience in the city.
Today, millions of young people flock into the developed cities in China each year, and expensive property and rent prices have led to a significant number of people permanently vagabonding from a place to another. The pursuit of a better life and the desire to belong in the community have directly affected the development of youth-targeted apartment in recent years. After finishing numbers of apartment projects, we are looking forward to provoking a truly shared community which is not only able to provide the essentials of shared living mode but also project the social structure and the connection of it through space.
Each unit in Super Babylon is roughly 9-meter square which contains essential living elements such as beds; desks; wardrobes and an in-place toilet. This private personal space can accommodate the basic housing needs of a person or a couple, and 4-5 of these basic units around a shared living space could form a “family space”. The family space is a partly emptied two-level shared area, served as a communal kitchen; dining room; working and living space. Additionally, each family space has a shared outdoor terrace extended from living space as a yard for the family. Then every 4 to 5 of this strewn family spaces form an enormous collection of residences in the space. At the centre of this collection is a shared garden terrace, with steps and ramps connecting the public terraces of different heights. Also, several residential communal spaces together form residential buildings and communities. The upper level of each community is mainly used for residential purposes, while the ground floor is opened to the city for assembly, commerce, sports, and leisure functions.
The spatial and structural logic of Super Babylon was reversed from our social structure. Through the intervention of corners of cubic space, we determined the growth principle of typing. These three spaces in a progressive scale – residential community, family space and basic units are created in the steps of tertiary fission of the angular form, thus completing the transformation of space and social relations from the public - shared - private space just like a blossoming flower.
Super Babylon illustrates a social pattern of a shared community, which is stimulated by the growing desire for individual life-style and the social demands that is closely related to it. Super Babylon includes 4 types of various spatial and social relations: individual basic units, small family spaces, communal spaces among residences and collective community buildings. These 4 kinds of spaces have also overcome the dualistic antagonism of “individuality” and “collective” thus to create a truly shared community for young people in developed cities.
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