Zhengchen Liu

About

Utopia Factory

The skyline is the dividing line between heaven and earth, a silhouette formed by both urban architecture and nature. With the development and expansion of modern urbanisation, urban settlements continue to develop and encroach on natural land, with more and more skyscrapers rising out of the land. This has resulted in the originally open and free skyline being cut into regular, similar and narrow geometric shapes by the sudden arrival of skyscrapers. As the form of the buildings and the form of the skyline changed, so did the perception of the city to humans. By creating a video environment that shows how the skyline has changed over the last few decades, as well as creating a factory that will allow humans to build high-rise buildings faster in the future, I invite the viewer to enter an environment that contemplates the city skyline and modern architecture. Through my project, I hope to provide the viewer with a silhouette of a modern building and skyline, and to explore the relationship between the skyline and modern architectural forms and human perception.

It is difficult to appreciate the unique cultural sentiments of the region and the connection between human society and nature in the region in these cold geometrical shapes. This is true even in postmodernist architectural thought. Although postmodernist architects have recognised the coldness of architectural silhouettes and the lack of respect for the human condition and human emotions. But as it stands, when you look up at the sky or through the city, they are still cold, artificial, geometric silhouettes. These geometric and narrow urban shapes subconsciously influence the human sensory system. The highly similar modern high-rise building forms are also tiresome and exhaust our sensory systems. Whether our sensory system should gradually accept the influence of modern high-rise buildings or whether the cold and uniform forms of modern high-rise buildings really have a great impact on human senses is what I want viewers to feel and think about in my work.