Xiaotian (Gina) Sun

You breathe the city and the city also breathes you back.

An interactive city shelter of urban lifestyle, expressing the relationship between city and its dwellers through the action of breathing.

In Schrödinger's book What is Life?, he originally stated that 'what an organism feeds upon is negative entropy,' and 'the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.'

A city, accordingly, increases its entropy through problems such as air pollution, traffic jams, information overload and so on. Meanwhile, these urban issues actuate citizens who are anxious and distressed. Breathing is believed to be the simplest way of accelerating the increase in entropy through metabolism. People are noticeably relaxed and find it easier to concentrate after deep breathing. This city shelter is going to be a curative pathway in our city, transforming anxiety into relief. You breathe the city and the city also breathes you back, making up a mutual beneficial connection.