"Setting Sun No. 6"

Project idea

In the post-pandemic era, both the lockdown and the fast-paced life as social parts have trapped people in the city of concrete and steel. People are resistant to this situation, and they are, to a certain extent, in tune with the navigator’s mind in the novel. The novel 'With Her Eyes' takes the absolute enclosed space of death as the first experience, contrasting that people on the ground have lost the ability to see green in a grey world, and the people under the ground long for the last glare of green in a grey world. Thus, as a vehicle for modern people to realize their dream of nature, the outdoor store used the navigator’s dream as a spatial clue to explore the spiritual needs of people in their enclosed state. The old spaces in the city are transformed, and new uses are proposed to study their spatial potential."

Project description

Navigator’s dream taken as the spatial clue for the shop, the space of the cooling tower is like a vertical dream corridor, connecting dream and reality, and each floor is a slice of the dream. Built with the enclosed cabin as a spatial prototype, each floor increases in height floor by floor. The bottom is a real cabin scene, and the higher up, the scene is stretched into abstract images, signifying the establishment of a dream world.

The third floor is a fully open product experience space;
The second floor is a semi-open experience space;
The ground floor is a pick-up area.

Technical information

The exterior structure of the building was reconstructed from an abandoned cooling tower, and the internal space was added with concrete beams and columns to create the interior space.