ArchiMIX !

Through the five techniques of mixology, architecture is understood as a way to combine programs, cultures, materials, and spatial languages into new forms of collective experience. Each method suggests a different relationship between elements: some preserve contrast, while others dissolve boundaries or intensify collisions. Vancouver Chinatown, a neighborhood historically shaped by the mixing of people, commerce, traditions, and urban identities, yet increasingly marked by decline and fragmentation in the 21st century. By intertwining the elements between old and new in terms of building form, material, demographics and culture life, an opportunity to reimagine Chinatown as a site of invention rather than nostalgia. Within the shell of the existing fabric, a new “city” emerges in an old building.