Zhongshan Zou

Right to drift; 

Right, to drift. 

After researching the Lying Flat Movement, and reading Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition and Bertrand Russell's In Praise of Idleness, I started to question the existing office lobby and proposed a new type of civic foyer that would allow people to freely draft around and at the same time host different social events. 


This short speculative film is part of my fifth-year thesis at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AASchool). 


Dedicated to Miraj Ahmed and Martin Jameson.

2022. Single-channel video. 8.43 minutes.        Watch Film [YouTube]


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