Revamping old phone booths in Shanghai by 100architects

MINI China, in collaboration with Changning District Government, Anomaly & Assbook, commissioned 100architects the design and production for revamping old phone booths in Yuyuan Road, a very historic road of Shanghai.
The Phone Booths is a public space intervention powered by MINI China through its platform Urban Matters, which curates and creates design solutions that tackle urban challenges confronting China’s creative class. The main objective was to explore the possibilities of revamping such old relics to become of relevant public use in this contemporary time, as they already were in a past time.
Every major city in the world has a network of public phone booths on most streets, which was crucial to the running of the city, however a couple of decades phonebooths throughout the world became obsolete. In a lot of places, they had even become urban trash bins or even worst, public toilets.
100architects was hired to rethink the role of those urban objects in our contemporary city with the current needs and conditions of the real potential users of today. after analyzing the booths, the answer was clear. We had to turn them into urban mini capsules that facilitate interaction among people.
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Architect: 100architects
Photography: Amey Kandalgaonkar
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