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Anarchy City, Zhuocen Yao
Anarchy City, Zhuocen Yao
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis is a political manifesto that seeks to address the current chaotic and undesrable politcal environment on the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen (Anarchy City). Acknowledging that:
-Anarchy City has evolved from political borders whose purpose was to create division.
-Anarchy City possesses width and depth, is a 3-dimensional space of physical presence.
-Anarchy City is a "zone of exception" independent from the entities it sets out to separate.
-Anarchy City is anarchic, free of formal rules and regulations and thus free for interpretation.
-Anarchy City is deliberately distinguished from, and …