Beijing Boom Tower presents a model showing 6 hectares of the Chinese capital in 2020. The design of the block underlines the conflicting desires of the modern metropolis: its boom demand for urban space,
and its consequent suffocation. BBT presents an extreme architecture of networks, bridges, escalators, highways and towers; a continuous system that reunites the segregated Chinese society within one vertical neighbourhood.

Three projections are screened on the model:
– a graphic information against the tower block turns its skyscrapers into giant bar diagrams to highlight the political and economic dimension of the residential block.
– the CCTVs of the building. Mini-cameras capture the inner-world of the structure. These images feed back to a wall of b&w monitors.
– interviews with the people that live and work in BBT are projected in a third screen. These are combined with an animation detailing the phases of its development and construction; the reality of life at ten times Manhattan density becomes apparent.
By Neville Mars, Saskia Vendel, and Dai Yang.

Images.
See it at the second Guangzhou Triennial that runs through mid-January of 2006.

Via Papier Machine invest China. See also angermann2’s post.