A wall is a binary condition: in/out, old/new, here/there. Blurry Wall, a proposal for a culture complex in Nanjing, China is a project that confuses these distinctions through conflicting bodily sensations. The intention of team members, Yaohua Wang, Scott Chung, Qing Cao, and Lennard Ong, is to tune the architecture into an instrument that channels the different urban energies flowing through it, blurring the boundaries between them. More images and project description after the break.
Relating to the historical Nanjing city wall, more and more walls are strewn on site. They tilt and cant into each other to form the blurry wall. Their placement adapts to the site: each blurry wall starts from the perimeter but converges upon point intensities of defined program (theatre, apartments, etc) or large chambers. Their orientation is a nod to the original wall, blurring the distinction between old and new.
