TIME CATCHER-public lavatory

Public space is an ancient concept. From ancient Greek temples to Chinese ancestral temples, they carry human cognition and self-understanding at each historical stage. With the modernization process, the emergence of cities and public spaces became hardware of cities. Reasonable humanized design maximize the convenience of people’s daily life.However, the advent of postmodernity announced the beginning of information networking, the relationship between the traditional the signifier was broken, the current social and cultural connotation was deconstructed, and the function and meaning of public space were re-explained and re-constructed,The original functional space needs to be filled and replaced by a new context. The toilet is a relatively hidden and private place in the building space, a space that needs to be concealed.Tiles covered the floor and walls, sinks, showers, toilet paper, toilets, tampons, mirrors, and other objects that originally existed in the toilet. These symbols appeared in the public passages, occupying the spaces we are familiar with.The “toilet” in Xinglanli, the project site: contains the elevator passage, escalator access and logistics staff access and the real toilet. The original 80 square meters of toilet space overflowed the entire Xinglanli public area, engulfing and twisting like a black hole The time and space eventually formed a 1450 square mile toilet. Here, powerful gravity tears the surrounding time and space, and all traditional aesthetics, feelings and tastes are twisted, smashed, and strangled, such as the light swallowed by the black hole is difficult to escape.The single functional public passage has become an extension of the toilet space. These items that are not elegant in daily aesthetic experience are enlarged, stacked, arranged …The gravitational force of black holes causes galaxies to collide and rub against each other, experiencing destruction and rebirth in the bright afterglow of white, green, and purple explosions. Space is still growing, time has just been born, everything seems to be back to the original point, this familiar and strange scenery is like an absurd stage play.