Definition: The City as a Laboratory

A building inserted into a high-density urban block. Surrounded by neat and orderly office buildings and residences, it is composed of several inclined, intersecting volumes, with one corner cantilevered over the sidewalk, and the facade diagonally torn open to reveal internal stairs and people. It does not leave the city, but creates tension between the existing streets and neighboring buildings. Avoid: placing the building in an open suburban or park area, making the surrounding environment a blurry background, making the volume unrelated to the street, making the avant-garde into a purely strange shape.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟插在高密度城市街廓裡的建築。周圍是方正整齊的辦公大樓與住宅,它卻由幾個傾斜、互相穿插的量體組成,一角懸挑到人行道上方,立面被斜向撕開露出內部的樓梯與人群。它沒有離開城市,而是在既有的街道與鄰棟之間製造張力。避免:把建築放在空曠的郊區或園區、周邊環境做成模糊的背景、讓量體與街道毫無關係、把前衛做成單純的奇怪造型。