New City Wall

The project aims to investigate the empty space in Beijing's infrastructure and rethink the city and its public space.

After the founding of New China, the defensive role of the Beijing city wall almost disappeared. The city wall was demolished. As an alternative, the Beijing Ring Road traffic system was built along the original site of the ancient city wall. But today's Beijing does not make full use of all the space. There is a lot of empty space under the urban viaduct that has not been used.

The ambition of this project is to repair and rebuild the ancient city wall based on the empty space of transportation infrastructure, and bring meaning to the wall. The city wall will be redefined by using traditional Chinese cultural references, such as traditional landscape paintings, murals and dances, to bring new functions and meanings to the building. Break through the defence and isolation functions of the city wall in the past, and create a public space where citizens are connected with others, nature, and culture.