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Xiaoyang Fang, Siqi Ding, Yuanpei Zhuang

UN-Office(Uncertainty Network Office)

https://u-n-office.com/

New York City, United States of America
Uncertainty Network Office (“UN-Office”) is an unofficial, unlicensed and unprofitable group of architects, urban designers & artists. UN-Office was founded by Xiaoyang Fang in 2017. We call ourselves an office while it’s more like a community. “An” and “Un-” is not only a pun but also conveys our focus on duality, contradiction, complication and ambiguity in architecture, art, urban and humanity.

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Invisible Landscape


Extractivism of Greenhouse Agriculture

Invisible Landscape


Extractivism of Greenhouse Agriculture
The project examines the greenhouse urbanization and photosynthetic colonization to describe the process that human displace, domesticate, and reproduce nature and territories in Anthropocene and Capitalocene.
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Type of project
  • New alliances

The project reviews “invisible” extractivism in greenhouse urbanization under ecological masquerade. In a perspective of critical pragmatism rather than critical regionalism, the research explores the collaborative mechanism of global logistics, infrastructure, migration, and technology in ecological production. An online archive of photographs, cartographies, articles, and interviews aims to collect the images and stories of climate control, environmental transformation, and labor appropriation during the photosynthetic colonization.

The greenhouse has been rarely studied as an architectural typology, and greenhouse urbanization has been less mentioned as a form of urbanism. Yet this investigation of these “invisible landscapes” would provide us new perspectives of human interaction, intervention, and invasion into nature, and they also reflect the romanticized ecological conspiracy in political, economic, and anthropological realms.


CHESSBOARD OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC COLONIZATION; CONVEYOR BELTS OF ECO-COMMODITIES

ECO-MOBIUS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

ZODIAC OF GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION

FLOATING PERPETUAL MOTION LOOP OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION-A NEW UTOPIA, OR NOT?

Invisible Landscape


Extractivism of Greenhouse Agriculture

Invisible Landscape


Extractivism of Greenhouse Agriculture
The project examines the greenhouse urbanization and photosynthetic colonization to describe the process that human displace, domesticate, and reproduce nature and territories in Anthropocene and Capitalocene.
File under
Type of project
  • New alliances

The project reviews “invisible” extractivism in greenhouse urbanization under ecological masquerade. In a perspective of critical pragmatism rather than critical regionalism, the research explores the collaborative mechanism of global logistics, infrastructure, migration, and technology in ecological production. An online archive of photographs, cartographies, articles, and interviews aims to collect the images and stories of climate control, environmental transformation, and labor appropriation during the photosynthetic colonization.

The greenhouse has been rarely studied as an architectural typology, and greenhouse urbanization has been less mentioned as a form of urbanism. Yet this investigation of these “invisible landscapes” would provide us new perspectives of human interaction, intervention, and invasion into nature, and they also reflect the romanticized ecological conspiracy in political, economic, and anthropological realms.


CHESSBOARD OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC COLONIZATION; CONVEYOR BELTS OF ECO-COMMODITIES

ECO-MOBIUS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

ZODIAC OF GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION

FLOATING PERPETUAL MOTION LOOP OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION-A NEW UTOPIA, OR NOT?


Idea by

Xiaoyang Fang, Siqi Ding, Yuanpei Zhuang
UN-Office(Uncertainty Network Office)
New York City
United States of America
Uncertainty Network Office (“UN-Office”) is an unofficial, unlicensed and unprofitable group of architects, urban designers & artists. UN-Office was founded by Xiaoyang Fang in 2017. We call ourselves an office while it’s more like a community. “An” and “Un-” is not only a pun but also conveys our focus on duality, contradiction, complication and ambiguity in architecture, art, urban and humanity.