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In ruin, building site, construction, on standby, in pause, In « pour parler », project, demolition… Each city regulates. Humans live their own cycle and buildings frame too. During all punctuations, the life does not exist anymore.
In Shanghai, at the time of very grown, this phenomenon seems even more present. Like so suddenly, during the overactivity of this mégapole, the approximate 1% of “waste land” is multiplied. And in this personnal percentage, I count only the places which at the present are completely inert at 100% for one remarkable period. In a city of more than 16millions inhabitants that happens very quickly on a colossal surface (without counting the inactive places 50% of their time)
Indeed as for the stockmarket, many built spaces are under the speculative emulation and then not used… In parallel I note that Shanghai have a great number of mobile actors, passengers in perpetual revival, temporary workers, visitors, expelled…
In a 24 hour city, I imagine the Utopia that the inert consumption of space can find fugitive use, “ the time of”. An environmental program, within the meaning of entourage, offering to these places a transitory life useful for the residents as one can see it in the destroying process of the shanghainese Lilong.
During more than one month, apartments and shops empty one after other and start to be dismantled. During this time the last occupants simply adapt emptied space, a shop becomes a night carpark, a place for a nap, a clothes line, an office or a storage for the new workers…
In China this mobile force exists thanks to the mass of inhabitants. And when a city live more quickly than its own men, and when it is so large, suddenly if we discover non moving area it becomes to us source of mystery.
What could be more public than a building site in destruction stopped or deserted to be destroyed? What could be more educational than a building in construction or ruin? What could be more suitable for events than a devasted land? What could be more useless than a tower emptied by the owner?....

Imagine whereas any blocked space becoming a new property..
Could a place, before the last blow of tractopelle, transform as an external happy ending party not obstructing form the noise anybody more…
Could someone propose to the expelled, a refuge like in deserted offices or waste ground near the places they have social and work life…
Could an empty roof be a public observatory sources of break as parks.
Immagine a public building site allowing to discover the construction differently.
Immagine to visit a ruin through scaffoldings…