Porous City

Abstract: My project is about the growing problem of relations between humans and wildlife in cities. The more we built, the less space of habitat for wildlife to survive. I choose to work in Beijing, a megacity with a population of tens of millions, also home to many wildlife. I investigated the issue about coexistence of humans and wild animals in Beijing. I choose to design something for birds. Birds, along humans, are the most powerful biological force of globalization on the planet. I mainly studied one type of birds in Beijing called Beijing Swift. The purpose is to create a new mode in which people and birds could coexist in the city by exploring the concept of territory for birds. I use activeness and passiveness to define the concept of territory in terms of time, vertical space and horizontal space. Humans have dominance in the city where animals may be disturbed by people's behavior at any time or  any place. Therefore I want to improve birds’ active dominance in their territory by providing bird-specific architecture, restricting human’s behavior and hiding human’s behavior in birds’ habitat.