HELL and HEAVEN

This is a theme shot of my design project of Urban Design Elements Studio. The argument was that, in order to bring life (here means the flow of people and capital) back to Queens's sunnyside yard neighborhood, we (me and my partner Wu Zhou) consolidated all the passive post-industrial programs(mainly warehouses) which previously occupied the neighbor lands into one centralized place above Sunnyside Yard- a giant train yard which served as a transportation node between east-coast and Long Island region, great importance to the large region but no direct benefits to its surroundings. By centralized all those dirty, passive, ugly, noisy yet must-exist stuffs into one place, we then release those occupied lands for better use. In other words, to create a consolidated HELL and leave the development of HEAVEN to the market. 

Where there is civilization, there is waste. Hell and Heaven should be considered as one. Whether or not they should be put together is debatable, but needless to say, we shall no longer try to disguise the bad but to reveal it, as part of the system. It's been too long we only focus on creating a heaven without acknowledging a GREAT HEAVEN comes along with a GREAT HELL.

把所有髒東西都收起來吧，設計一個很棒的收納櫃給他們，反正大家都爭破頭的要設計漂亮乾淨的東西，就讓他們去負責童話世界，我們來做地獄。還有，地獄就是地獄，不要想在地獄裡搞個清幽的小咖啡館，還想種些花花草草，地獄的美感不是這種媚俗的東西。地獄得不三不四，你的童話世界裡就會看到果皮垃圾還有躲在佈景後面腐爛的老鼠。還有，把髒東西丟到城市外圍是愚蠢的想法，因為城市永遠沒有外圍，總有天某人會在垃圾場旁邊蓋一連串豪華的新大樓，到時候你就真的是在地獄旁邊喝你的五味雜陳劣等咖啡。