Minzhong - New Realms of Publics.

The Minzhong Paradise was an important historical building in the Republic of China in the 1930s, serving as a place for people to gather and watch plays. Over the past 100 years, the Minzhong Paradise has undergone several generations of change, becoming a commercial complex after serving as a theater. Today the building has fallen into disrepair and has become a memory card of Wuhan, and the adjacent Zhongshan Avenue is also used as a historical tour route with many visitors every year. But the tall building volume divides the two sides of the street into two completely different spaces. The side of the historic building facing the street is full of businesses, while the back side of the building is inhabited by Wuhan's poor working population. Most of them are service workers from other cities who come to Wuhan to work, living in rented houses of less than 20 square meters each. The huge contrast made me enter the back of the building like entering a completely different urban space. This discontinuous spatial experience is formed by the hard border of tall buildings located on the street. How can we weaken the boundary so that people on both sides can have better communication? The focus of this design is on how to activate the public space at the border of the urban area, so that the residents on both sides of the border can communicate and integrate better. I first connect the inner texture of the area to the surrounding urban texture, and introduce the function of urban landscape and marketplace, so that the residents inside and outside the building can gather and communicate.