I can’t see clearly what the future will be. What kind of thing?
But I still have to dive in head first.
As I do it, the light appears.
···
Magical basement
I believe everyone has heard of the basement
in Beijing, right?
That is a place where quite a few Beipiao people
have temporarily settled in order to realize their dreams.
Dark, stuffy, humid, cramped...
You don’t need to say much,
you can feel it too.
But the large city of Beijing
can not only accommodate ordinary people’s heroic dreams of steady progress,
it can also accommodate all kinds of crazy creative ideas.
Like this mysterious basement,
follow the exaggerated yellow arrow and push the door open...
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What you see is not
the darkness and humidity life,
Rather, there are chic bookstores, cafes,
barber shops, gyms, and even private cinemas.
You may not be able to imagine that
This hotel in the basement of Building 19, Anyuan Beili,
of Beijing Asian Games Village,
still looked like this before.
Mottled gray walls,
exposed wires,
messy clotheslines,
as soon as you step in, there is a puddle of water,
" It is no exaggeration to say that you can raise fish."
But this sucksThe situation was extremely bad,
but it changed because of the arrival of a man.
This man’s name was Zhou Zishu.
When talking about why he wanted to renovate his basement, he has to go back 10 years.
In 2006, Zhou Zishu graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. With the mentality of becoming a great designer, he went to work at the National Art Museum of China. He hoped that through the art and design he had learned over the years, he could truly Do something for todays contemporary China.
However, in his fourth year of work, he encountered a scene that was particularly uncomfortable. He saw an aunt walking into the east gate of the National Art Museum of China, came to the toilet, and started washing vegetables directly. "People don't pay attention to art, but only care about the real life in front of them."
Then when he got off work that day, he saw the sunset and an old comrade from the work unit pushing his bicycle home. "I seemed to see myself decades later, and I felt that I would definitely not be able to live like this."
So beyond everyones expectations, he resigned from what others considered a very good job at the age of 33. Although his English was very poor, he spent 10 days studying for IELTS and actually passed the exam and went to study abroad at Central Saint Martins.
While studying abroad, he was confused and kept trying to figure out what to do in the future. Until one day I saw a piece of BBC news about a ruins being dug up in Manchester.
Also attached is an article about how after the first industrial revolution in Britain, the working class flooded into the city and how people lived in basements.
Then we read Engelss "On the Condition of the Working Class in England"
and discussed in detail how the underground areas of major British cities
are filled with people.
This suddenly reminded Zhou Zishu of the basements in Beijing.
Aren’t there a lot of them in Beijing too?
And according to current statistics,
there are about one million "ant tribes" living underground in Beijing.
After returning to Beijing, Zi Shu
wanted to design a library for young people in Beipiao.
“Perhaps it can provide young people with
employment or study. opportunity."
Not long after he returned to Beijing, he discovered that such a library already existed. However, after standing in front of the library and looking at it all day, he found that: in one day, there were almost No one borrowed books to read.
On the contrary, at night, 10 people came around behind to pee. This phenomenon shocked him and completely broke the thinking habits of previous designers. "It turns out that demand determines everything."
With this understanding, he turned around and rented a 2-bedroom apartment in Beijing. He wanted to experience what life is like in a basement in Beijing.
Going through the long corridor,
stepping carefully across the puddle-filled road,
the pungent and unpleasant smell
can’t hide. Lose.
Take a look inside the room again.
The damp walls are mottled. He was holding a knife.
The landlord said this was to prevent intruders.
If there was a situation, he would just cut it with the knife.
As a designer,
Zhou Zishu was completely shocked by the scene in front of him.
He wanted to help these people.
People who live above and below ground should
not have their lives separated into day and night just because of a ceiling.
