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Spatial Forces
Hainan has always lived at the edge: a military outpost, a tropical escape, an experimental frontier. Now, it becomes a launchpad for China’s commercial journey into space.
Amid speed, spectacle, and verticality, we drew a circle. Actually, two.
Not to resist the future, but to hold it gently, precisely, temporarily.
Not propulsion, but pause.
A hovering loop, a disc with a tail, negotiated from constraint: an untouchable existing structure below and a protected volume above. Geometry became contour. Contour became geometry.
The resulting “6” quietly echoes a Chinese symbol of smoothness and continuity, an accidental superstition embedded in the plan.
Twelve slender pillars carry the structure.
A stair of about 100 steps introduces delay, stretching the seconds before liftoff.
At 15 meters, a ring for watching rockets leave Earth and for watching ourselves.
Minimal structure, maximum consequence.
By day, anticipation.
By night, the skin becomes a screen.
A grounded architecture, briefly aligned with escape.

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Project Team
Firas Safieddine, Yimeng Wei
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