Happy Encounter
Chongqing University Instructor: Ke Chen Collaborator: Xinping Wang May 2018 - June 2018
The old cable factory is located in Shapingba, Chongqing. The site is near to Chongqing university and has typical characteristics of this mountain city, with huge height difference and circuitous paths. As the cable company moved to another site, the factory was abandoned. Now, with the development of Shapingba, the government decides to renovate this site to an entrepreneurial industrial park. This factory will be reconstructed to working space for architects, attracting people working on the architectural industry, so that it could bring cultural and economic benefits to this region.
My big idea for the co-working space is happy encounter. The working style of architects is sedentary so that I want to create different spaces to offer more opportunities for architects to walk around and encounter other people. This would be beneficial to their health, and as one designer meets another designer, they could exchange their ideas, which would be beneficial to their work.