Shao Fuwei, XJTLU, ARC305, semester 1, 2016-17

In collaborative society, commercial is the focus instead humanity. We still live in a world where things are clearly delineated or separated from each other especially groups of people
with various social status. Migrants- a very distinctive social group in Modern Shanghai plays crucial roles in city construction, however, with relatively low social status, isolation, lack
of respect and passiveness are often found among them.
Boundaries should start to blur between the different domains, and in which collaboration and interaction becomes far more important than keeping separations. As a result, I wanted
to think of a giant machine, a building that would tear apart the boundaries that separate migrants from approaching the life of Shanghai and orchestrate various domains allowing them
to interact and collaborate. Thus it helps them set up their own position among the locals.
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