ZAO / standardarchitecture

Communities throughout history have practised communal living and resource sharing as a way of life. From the Indigenous to the modern urban community, societies incubated new social systems, facilitated cultural exchanges and developed co-living ideas in shared spaces. Yet, co-living will be a dangerous situation while it remains passive. With the world’s rapid division indulging seclusion and conflict, societies drift apart, physically and anthropologically. Is it possible to turn passive co-living active, both politically and architecturally?
The installation, conceived as a co-living workshop, invites visitors to reflect on the work of ZAO/ standardarchitecture under a suspended mock-up of the Hangzhou Museum, ponder in its courtyard as the philosophers did in ancient Chinese gardens, and dwell on the vital relationships between interior and exterior, architecture and landscape, memory and identity, envisioning new aspects of co-living and inducing discussions on sustainable co-living.

Technical collaborators
CAMERICH, Fang Xiaosong, Jing Jie
Team
Matthias Castrischer, Tan Xiao, Jakob Schmitt, Hua Yunsi, Zhang Yehan, Chen Zhenyu, Zhu Zhongliang, Lu Juncong, Zhang Chengzhang, Yu Yihua, Nelly Vitiello, Luciano Ricci
With the additional support of
CAMERICH