Zheng Yizhen

My site is an abandoned factory. This factory used to be a boiler factory, which was abandoned later due to urban economic transformation. Communities grew up around it. There are many old people and children in the community. Children lack the companionship of their parents, and the elderly are lonely. Therefore, I want to transform this site into a community activity center to provide activities and communication space for the elderly and children. This site focuses on flexible movement and reuses the abandoned industrial and construction waste to provide flexible activity space for children and the elderly.

Since the theme of this factory is industrial history, I explored how steel can be used in architecture. I chose as my research object the remaining crane in the factory, which is composed of rusty steel and pulley blocks. Thin steel is easy to twist, and rusty steel gives a sense of history and the passage of time. My theme is to call on adults to pay more attention to the elderly and children, while rust can bring people thinking about the past and lead people to review the industrial history. The reuse of waste steel can also arouse people's thinking and therefore call people to pay attention to the elderly. Looking back on history can also help children gain some new knowledge. The pulley block and the track can be moved, which not only represents the movement of time, but also reminds me of the mobility of space. The movable space can maximize the use of the space, enrich the function of the space, and meet the needs of different users in different occasions.