The Flower Market at Suzhou Creek
I think a lot can be said for gentler incisions into city fabric, especially when said fabric is draped about a river that is so important to Shanghai - sure, one that was perhaps more important then than now, but with no less gravity about it. That's for certain.
Renovations present building types with the option of flexibility. If so, then perhaps there is no building better primed for a renovation than a factory. They exist after all as big sheds that house... things happening. Anything, really.
A wise friend recently asked me to draw a series of things, in a loose composition, in order to tell me of my mind. One of these objects was a well.
What if the river and the factory could once again share a water-front(ed) relationship? Not the historical factory-dock-boat relationship, but something lighter, something that remembers all that, and forms a variation on the trace of things.
Can a river be a well?