Chrono Carriage
Team
Name: Zhuang Tian
Nationality: Chinese
Institution / Company: Tsinghua University
Name: Quyue Zhang
Nationality: Chinese
Institution / Company: Tsinghua University
Name: Hanhan Xiao
Nationality: Chinese
Institution / Company: Tsinghua University
Name: Xueying Zhang
Nationality: Chinese
Institution / Company: Tsinghua University
-EDITORIAL PICK of Street of Tomorrow Competition
Due to the population growth, the Beijing government had been evacuating the locals in the old town since 2010s. In 2050, however, there are still some dwelling of unclear property rights on the edge of the historic reserve area. The dwellers are mixed up with the low incomes, the immigrants and the old man who is highly attached to the old communities, who have extended their shelters into the sky and into the street. As time goes by, some funky space, like “handshake buildings” and “sky bridge” has emerged, meanwhile, a mobility system in this community is taking shape. In order to ease the contradiction between the spontaneous construction and the urban plan system, the government has come up with a strategy that a public travel route could be run in the formed mobility railway, which could not only meet the demands of sightseeing but also recall the historical memories of Beijing. Those historical vehicles are Chrono Carriage within which visitors could visually travel back to some royal events or festivals by augmented reality devices. Ultimately, the operation and management work as well as the revenues would be shared by the locals and government commissioner.
#Urban regeneration, #Travel heritage, #historical vehicles and musealization, #time travel
