Outskirts
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This series has been realized in a well-delimited area of the Wuhan outskirts. It’s not yet the city but not the countryside anymore. Most of the inhabitants arrived not so long ago from all over the province to try their luck in the city. Vegetable gardens grow everywhere between the monotonous rows of blocks. Unlike downtown, there is still room for the sky and it’s a zone not yet conquered by the advertising hoardings, certainly being a place of little interest for them.
This borderline area, this fringe, is at the same time an epicentre. Gazing at it, we can witness the emergence of the future chinese urban landscape. Through the construction sites, the unfinished buildings and spaces, we become the spectator of the total and chaotic transformation of the landscape. This transformation often seems to lack of benchmarks, putting together all the references and forming an architectural melting pot sometimes strange to look at ; like this Dutch mill in miniature in the midst of a new park.
Although being quite narrow, this zone is an archetypal example of the Chinese emerging big cities outskirts. These cities, indeed, have the harmful tendency to all resemble one another and grow according to the same outlines.