Wutopia lab五周年微展，上海 / Wutopia lab

Wutopia lab由俞挺和闵而尼于2013年12月在上海成立。为庆祝五周年，主持建筑师俞挺邀请范文兵教授作为策展人策划这个位于思南书局三楼的周年庆微展。在自己设计的书店展览，俞挺和范文兵不想延续常规的建筑展览，展现图版，模型和视频。当然没有时间去实物搭建一个空间作为示范。他们决定做一些不一样的来展现Wutopia lab的魔幻现实主义建筑实践。

Wutopia Lab, funded by Yu Ting and Ming Erni, was established in December 2013 in Shanghai. To celebrate their five-year anniversary since starting the studio lead architect Yu Ting invited Professor Fan Wenbing to curate this celebratory exhibition, located at the third floor of Sinan Books. In this space that is also designed by Wutopia Lab, Yu Ting and Professor Fan did not see the purpose of following the typical architectural exhibition prototype of displaying architectural drawings, models and videos and of course did not have the time to reconstruct a whole exemplary space. They decided to try something that is different from the usual to reproduce Wutopia Lab’s practice of Magical Realism in Architecture.

▼展览整体，view of the exhibition

重屏|Layering Screens

As a pragmatic idealist, Yu Ting sees the renovation of Sinan Books as a starting point to his story. Followed up by the installation of a set of miniature mountain display boards within the third floor of Sinan Books, the exhibition is continuation of Wutopia Lab’s journey. Professor Fan chose 12 projects from the studio’s portfolio and thus 12 mountains were formed. These overlapping display boards that form a mountainous landscape is also like the folding screens of tradition Chinese culture, hence, the name Layering Screens. Only one photograph and the name of these 12 projects are kept in the display as a table of contents. The audience, by scanning the irrespective QR codes, is able to access the complete information about these projects through online journal articles. Illustrated on the back of each mountain is a keyword that corresponds to the given project followed by a key phrase that summaries the essence of the project.

▼每座山的背面是一个关于项目关键词和归纳项目精神的句子 illustrated on the back of each mountain is a keyword followed by a key phrase that summaries the essence of the project

魔幻现实主义|Magical Realism

Wutopia lab在思南书局三楼的红色山水的审美基于俞挺的两个艺术训练的渊源，即宋元山水和德国表现主义。名为重屏的红色山水也展示俞挺在建筑学技巧上的持续实验，1半透明的界面，2材料，3层层叠叠的立面空间，4色彩， 5影子。所有挂在半透明红色山峰上的字和图片仿佛飘浮在空中，重叠的红色和绿色展厅一起创造了俞挺所期望的魔幻现实主义场景。

The studio’s expression of the red mountains is inspired by Yu Ting’s practice of two major artistic approaches, which are Song Dynasty Shan Shui and German Expressionism. The overlapping screens of the red mountain-scape also demonstrates Yu Ting’s experiments in architectural techniques, including semi-transparency, materiality, layered elevations, color and shadow. The illustrated words and photographs displayed on the red mountains seems to be floating in the air. The coinciding red of the mountains and the green of the Sinan exhibition room creates an environment for Yu Ting’s endeavor towards an aesthetic of Magical Realism.

▼重叠的红色和绿色展厅一起创造了魔幻现实主义场景， the coinciding red of the mountains and the green of the Sinan exhibition room creates an Magical Realism environment

▼1半透明的界面、2材料、3层层叠叠的立面空间、4色彩、5影子， semi-transparency, materiality, layered elevations, color and shadow

雄心壮志|An Ambition

在山尽头的整面大墙展示的是俞挺作为主创在这个3年中为他和戴春创办的城市微空间复兴计划设计的所有项目地图。这个不断充实的地图正如他们所期盼那样，从日常微小出发，慢慢去影响和改善更多的城市和个体的负面空间而最后为上海这个伟大城市做出市民应有之贡献。

At the far end of this mountain-scape is a map encompasses all the projects done over these three years that are apart of Yu Ting and Dai Chun’s Urban Micro Space Revival Plan. This map continues to fill and expand as small changes to the everyday grow to influence the bigger urban atmosphere, contributing and nourishing the greater city of Shanghai.

▼尽头的整面大墙展示了城市微空间复兴计划设计的所有项目地图， at the end of this mountain-scape is a map encompasses all the Urban Micro Space Revival Plan

策展团队： 策展人：范文兵 主创建筑师：俞挺 策展团队：濮圣睿、丁叮、余婧、孙悟天、孙丽然 摄影： CreatAR Images 主要材料：红色亚克力, PVC地贴 时间：2018.12 Exhibition Team Curator: Fan Wenbing Lead Architect: Yu Ting Design Team: Pu Shengrui, Ding Ding, Yu Qian, Sun Wutian, Sun Liran Photography: CreatAR Images Materials: Red Acrylic Boards, PVC Floor Adhesive Dates: December 2018