Deconstructive Construction

Jouyu Huang, MArch (Year: 5)

The project is titled deconstructive construction. Derived from the notion of malicious transfer, the project is an urban virus that infects the highly controlled public space and liberate them. Public spaces are dying. With the privatisation of the city, higher control and surveillance are introduced. It is no longer allowing dialogue, merely a transitional space. The intervention aims to bring back sedentary quality, hacking through controlling elements via notions of occupying and squatting, reclaiming public space with reclaimed plastics waste. Trash– seen as the virus of the city, is being hidden and discarded into landfills or shipped overseas. To hijack this cycle, a reservoir host is created. Working as a service, it collects waste from the city, transforms them into architectural elements remotely, to infect and reclaim the highly sterile and controlled public space, to create new uses and situations. The host accelerates the process of deployment, allows the structure to be assembled before interruption. The formation responds to different control elements. The wall provides different level of opening and visibility, allowing activities to take place, offers possibility to reform collectiveness. It re-invites the group of people the city is trying to exclude, creating moment of refuge from the control.