The Animal Backbone ཚོང་ཁང་གི་ནང་བཀོད།

Press Kit

Unique Properties

This once the first slaughterhouse in the Far East, where countless lives were got killed, it is fascinating but attracts a lot of tourists. Today, this building has become a famous cultural and creative industry center in Shanghai.

Respecting the tens of thousands of animal souls, we are always looking for a way to have a commemorative architecture, trying to make an icy building to echo the concrete, and to arouse the painful memories and facts of killing animals because of lust.

Dimensions & Packaging

100m2

Tags

animal,Moving line, Commemorative

Production Technology

metal plate,mirror,glass

Design Challenge

On the other side of the commemorative space, it wants to bring more thinking about the harmonious symbiosis between humans and animals. The meaning of the symbiotic space "animal backbone" is to bear the burden of history with the animal, Pursuing humans and animals how to better live in harmony in the historical environment and share the wonderful experience brought by this city. pidan proposed the concept of stray animal adoption, providing long-term supply of food for the stray cats and dogs in the 1933 old field.

Research

Regarding the design process, a narrative story was implanted when space was not yet characterized. Starting from the walking track of a cat, the inner space and the outer space in the space are divided, and the basic functions in the living state are divided by a circle. In such a space, there are doors, windows can ability to peep and observe the inside and outside. And in inside, there are living rooms, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., which form the scene elements of life and form a bubble map.

Inspiration

Regarding the design process, a narrative story was implanted when space was not yet characterized. Starting from the walking track of a cat, the inner space and the outer space in the space are divided, and the basic functions in the living state are divided by a circle. There are doors, windows can ability to peep and observe the inside and outside. And in inside, there are living rooms, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., which form the scene elements of life and form a bubble map.

Project Duration

1933 Shanghai

Operation Flow

The whole project was initially thought to be shared by people and animals. Both of them live in the urban space, and they have their own interactive space and interactive space. The animal behavior is implanted into the space design, and in the premise, satisfy the function , through the simplest processing method to provide a platform to assist the pidan's brand and ideas.

Image Credits

Fununit Design & Zheng Shi