RELICT – Rundong Wang & Huzehui Xia

孑遗 RELICT

– by Rundong Wang & Huzehui Xia

The nuclear winter just past. And the sky in Beijing covered with dull dusts. In this future city with information explosion but the exhaustion of energy, all the substances only have a 24-hour lifespan. There is a giant atomic reactor below the entire city. Every 24 hours, everything in this city will be destroyed in order to provide and cycle energy for Beijing’s tomorrow.

Office

For capital managers, the best ways to save costs are to arrange more jobs in smaller spaces and equip each job with more streamlined equipments.

Studio

Books on bookshelves are not carriers of recording wisdoms. They are more like ornaments abandoned by the age of science and technologies, and they retrieved by artists with nostalgic feelings.

Hall

In Beijing, everyone is just an insignificant part of the urban machine.

Pangu Plaza

Pangu Plaza looks like a lonely boat driving on the sea under the night sky after the rainstorm. Heavy rain will not prevent the normal operation of the building.

Space Station

Rising elevators can never lead people to their paradise.

Street

At night, Beijing is surrounded by lanterns, even if it is empty. This is a symbol of this city that never sleeps, and it is also a tomb where money and desire pile up.

24-hour Convenience Store

The 24-hour convenience stores are a reflection for Beijing. It means a variety of people in Beijing doing all sorts of things no matter time or place.

Night Club

Although this nightclub seems empty, the lights present a scene of feasting and revelry. And the luxury decorations have a huge visual contrast to other oppressive scenes.

Exhibition

With the rapid development of our technology, people can keep these historical relics in the virtual world as long as they can turn all the visual information into data records.

Metro Line 13

This empty subway station formed a sharp contrast between its current condition and the peak commute. When will the busy Beijing be really quiet?

The Hall of Prayer

In order to use more space, the upper and lower floors of the Hall of Prayer have been developed into human activity areas. The dark sky has caused more lighting equipment to provide illumination for the area day and night because of air pollution.

The National Theatre

The National Theatre is another most unique and beautiful landmarks in Beijing. The terrain around it will change dramatically in the future. And it is also transformed into an amphibious mode of operation for frequent rainstorms.

Qianmen

The pedestrian street of Qianmen will be reconstructed to pigeon houses for supply pressure in the housing market and more residents.

Forbidden City

The polluted squiggles with radioactive materials have gradually encroached on every corner with the airflow. The harm of radioactive substances made it increasingly challenging to maintain and protect this ancient Forbidden City.

Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical Company

Pipes and furnaces will never stop moving toward the future like the wheels of history.

CCTV Headquarters Building

Perhaps the change of time will remove most current buildings and even the landscape, but the important spiritual symbol of “Big Pants” and the most advanced architectural design will always stay in the mind of every Beijing’s residence.

798

Whenever the high PM2.5 comes to Beijing, people on the street will wear a variety of protective equipments to prevent inhalable particles. These iron lungs exhibited in 798 have been unable to solve these problems.