EDUCATION:
Ran Duan did her undergraduate study in Harbin Institute of Technology.
And then did her postgraduate study in Royal College of Art.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Shanghai Modern Design Institute for airports design.
HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates for hotel design.
Saint Laurent, the luxury brand, for store planning.
Xtended_identity, for virtual scene design.
Immerse DAO, for brand visual design.
The project is a commentary on the injustice of the financial system, the inequalities in the workplace for manufacturing and elite, consumerism, and the idiocy of extreme wealth and extreme poverty.
The outcome is a building which has hybrid uses.
On the ground is the charitable donation space for the poor, and a sweatshop production factory for the worker, a monitor level for the supervisor, above which an automated ‘shopping in the sky’ experience is created for societal elites.
They both work as a circular system of recycling and support one another.
Term 1 Concept
The ground floor is a donation place for the poorest people. Above it is a floating workstation. The workers entered through the lifting platform. The shops in the sky are designed for the rich. They are connected by an elevator. Handmade products made by workers are transported to the sky through elevators. Rich people in the sky send their second-hand items to the ground through elevators. The first floor is the monitoring room for the supervisor which is responsible for monitoring the whole system.
Stores of different brands can change the material of the module and program different forms.
