After the Wall

The project is situated at the end of the existing Ming City Wall remains, where the museum and park meet. Research into the Liang–Chen Plan and the demolition of Beijing’s historic city walls revealed how this site condenses a broader history of removal, reconstruction and selective memory.

I became critical of the way modernisation framed the 'new' and the 'old' as a strict opposition, where the old was often treated as backward and disposable. Today, this rupture is further softened by restoration and landscape treatment, which risks obscuring the violence of demolition and the complexity of the site’s historical transformation.

Positioned at the end of the existing wall remains, the museum extends the visitor route and forms a spatial link between ruin, memorial and public park.