The site is located in Shanghai 1933. The building was built by Balfours in 1933. The No.1 slaughter house of the Far East has made countless animals’ lives on netherworld Road.
The Animal Backbone is like a giant animal rising from the ground , it is disclosed above the building's horizontal line, which consist 0.48 million holes, to show the respect to grievous massacre to the animals and it's never-rest hollow souls. With this set on the past also brings to load the responsibility to the history.
The space design use a narrative way. Starting from the walking trace of a cat, we put the cat into the space and capture the multiple random walking traces and stretch them to form a curved wall. The cat walks freely on the curved surface. The wall also divides the site into an inner space and an outer space. Through the door and the window,human and animal can observe or cross the two spaces.
When the backbone rise from horizontal line, we found that space got commemorative, story, functional, unknown, and possibility with all the problems solved in a seemingly simple way.
This project is initiated by the thinking of Human and Animal in sharing City, they two have their own space while the interacting spaces exist, it also makes animal behaviors involved into the space design, using interesting way not only to solve functional problems, but also let human and animal both enjoy the space.
Thanks to the history, pidan and people who loving animals.