Super Star

Superstar: A Mobile China Town is a conceptual project first exhibited at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in Uneternal City. It reimagines the traditional Chinatown model as a modern, self-sufficient, and mobile urban unit. The project challenges outdated representations of Chinese culture, rejecting nostalgic kitsch and fragmented development in favor of a cohesive, forward-looking environment.

Designed to host up to 15,000 people, the Superstar integrates cultural venues, housing, workshops, health resorts, food production systems, and sports facilities. It is fully self-sustaining growing its own food, recycling all waste, and operating independently from its host city. It includes spaces for creativity, learning, and collective memory, including a digital cemetery that honors the deceased.

More than a physical structure, the Superstar is described as a “benevolent virus,” injecting energy and innovation into the environments it temporarily inhabits. It can be deployed globally, acting as a cultural interface that exchanges new Chinese identity with local conditions.

The first imagined site is the outskirts of Rome, offering a contrast between the city’s ancient legacy and the Superstar’s dynamic future. This mobile Chinatown merges nature and technology, community and individuality, tradition and innovation, proposing a new model for global, adaptable urban living rooted in cultural authenticity.