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Size: 10,000 sf
Location: Ordos, Inner-Mongolia,
China
Since ancient times, so far from
Heaven, Arcadia, Utopia to the
Happy Valley, there are many
forms of paradise that human
beings have dreamed of. However,
does there exist a real paradise of
our time? If it does, where could
we find it?
We, UNI, find the paradise that is
the perfect home in the shape of
sphere through the philosophical
motif of the ancestors of eastern
and western world. The very first
house of a human being is the
mother’s womb. According to S.
Freud, a psychoanalyst, we all
desire to go back to the initial and
original home, the uterus, where
we feel the coziest and the safest.
Since the form of sphere is more
like a pouch than a box, it could
give a person similar feeling of the
mother’s uterus. “Returning to the
Origin” is one of the ten steps to
achieve the Nirvana in Buddhism.
The form of sphere is physically
resembled to our only planet and
initial habitat, the earth, and is
morphologically similar to our
origin, the ovum. As the global
shape is a metaphor of the origin,
our project also represents a
returning to the origin through the
architectural design. Lastly, W.
Shakespeare, a playwright, named
his theatre ‘the Globe’ with his
desire to embrace the whole
universe in it.
Size: 10,000 sf
Location: Ordos, Inner-Mongolia,
China
Since ancient times, so far from
Heaven, Arcadia, Utopia to the
Happy Valley, there are many
forms of paradise that human
beings have dreamed of. However,
does there exist a real paradise of
our time? If it does, where could
we find it?
We, UNI, find the paradise that is
the perfect home in the shape of
sphere through the philosophical
motif of the ancestors of eastern
and western world. The very first
house of a human being is the
mother’s womb. According to S.
Freud, a psychoanalyst, we all
desire to go back to the initial and
original home, the uterus, where
we feel the coziest and the safest.
Since the form of sphere is more
like a pouch than a box, it could
give a person similar feeling of the
mother’s uterus. “Returning to the
Origin” is one of the ten steps to
achieve the Nirvana in Buddhism.
The form of sphere is physically
resembled to our only planet and
initial habitat, the earth, and is
morphologically similar to our
origin, the ovum. As the global
shape is a metaphor of the origin,
our project also represents a
returning to the origin through the
architectural design. Lastly, W.
Shakespeare, a playwright, named
his theatre ‘the Globe’ with his
desire to embrace the whole
universe in it.
