Editors’ Choice

2018 Skyscraper Competition
Chi-Jen Wang

United Kingdom

The Reciprocal Utopia City project is a renewable energy city in the sky.  It forms a cloud-like structure rising into the sky to 1,100 meters high and parallel to New York City.
The focus of this project is consists of two parts. How architecture can serve as a mechanism to facilitate escapism, in the context of the domination of capitalism, taking it as a strategic site to study. Meanwhile, it explores the new way of imaging renewable energy system by using potential technology.
The Situationist International once described a dream society: New Babylon. The Nomadic city develops the idea of a “traveling metropolis”, a package that infiltrates temporarily into a community. The mobility of architecture.  “It is obvious that a person is free to use his time for the whole of his life, free to go where he wants, when he wants, cannot make the greatest use of his freedom in a world ruled by the clock and the imperative of a fixed abode.” A society without work.

A place without a clock.

A dream that allows you to be truly free.
This is about Dreaming, the fantasy of escape.

The architectural scheme is explored through a dream: the fantasy of freedom and escape. The world we perceive is full of conflict and paradox, the true purpose is often hidden behind this dialogue, in which we are all trapped in its endless discourse. The subjects to escape can be various, and common...