The Chronicles of Mundane Life
A glance at the path of modernization in China
Date/ Feb. to June, 2020
Type/ Academic, individual work
Location/ N/A
This project focuses on the life towers constructed by the life track of ordinary people and their families. The design concept is to put forward solutions to the problems and crises represented by the tower buildings and to describe the vision of transforming living space from machinery into the organism. They coexist in two parallel universes. The project itself requires no substantial space, as the space for living is an epic metaphor. When we are pushed forward by society, on what path should we embark? The tower buildings dissipate into gigantic monuments, condensing as the chronicles of mundane life.
I regard myself as a time traveller to the narrative life in the eras. Every two decades, time slices are utilized to define future social development through deconstruction and montage. I hope to reproduce the collective memory of this age from a micro-historical level of individual and family narratives, having a glance at the path of modernization in China.










