LIquid Gold

date. 12/2021

city. Shanghai China

type. Urban Design

Two women with urinals are chatting

On the way to pour urine

image sources ©何志森Mapping工作室

https://view.inews.qq.com/k/20201212A0DGVV00?web_channel=wap&openApp=false

Today we live in a world where we express ourselves through screens, and the class divide caused by digital media creates communication boundaries in the city with invisible dimensions. The "urinal culture" is a unique communication mechanism in Shanghai's old Longtang, allowing locals to break through the boundaries of fortified housing and find a "community living room".

As a medium of communication, urinals witness the life of each family in the alleyway and the human fireworks.

Nowadays, this culture is about to disappear in the modern city and be sealed among older people

How to make the "urinal culture" resist the Fordist consumerism in a new regenerative way is the core issue of this project.

The core of the design is how to "visualize" the regeneration of waste urine and establish a "shared garden" for the alley community.

On the other hand, under the technology-led civilization, the traditional farming culture will return to the modern new urbanist society in an invisible dimension and revitalise the "urban living room" belonging to the alley residents through osmosis.

Arduino UNO3

I believe that in the future, the formation of more "urban living rooms" will provide new possibilities for softening the barriers to communication brought about by digital information encirclement.

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