A Continuous Public Ground (After the Party)

A Continuous Public Ground is a critical position and flexible approach towards the challenging urban fabrics in relation to the imbalance among land uses and in demand for economic growth. The intention is to create a continuation of the public quality generated through the exhibitions, in the meanwhile maintaining the site as a crucial part of the economic engine after the ‘party’.

In terms of the shrinking of the exhibition industries and the big background in demand of economic recovery, the current site of Halle 3 of Messe Basel is envisioning a transformation towards a collision, as well as a reimagination between urban public spaces and private dwellings. The expansion of commercial real estate will be applied on one layer, inheriting the enclosed form of traditional European residential block, while being lifted up and providing room for the other layer - an element of flexibility will be introduced with a multiplicity of recreational facilities (including the construction of permanent/ephemeral public activities and commercial exchanges) as a continuation of the surrounding urban ground, in an international and a communal scope.

The new hybridizing spaces will not only provide an innovative living experience but also a reactivation of the shrinking exhibition ground that submerged residents/visitors in a vortex of recreation and pleasure that encouraged compulsive consumption and production.