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Spatial Forces

Yáo Guāng

Observation Platform for Commercial Space Launches

Category

November 30, 2025

Date

Area

30000

sqm

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.

Project Team

Firas Safieddine, Yimeng Wei

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