Fengxingxia is a group of delivery boys and takeaway riders active in Dafeng Street, Xindu District, Chengdu City, who report potential dangers and problems in the city in their daily work, and enthusiastically participate in urban governance. The intention of creating the Fengxingxia Stations was the government's desire to utilize unused sites in the city to build a number of public spaces (stations) for fengxingxia to better rest and replenish their supplies, as a way of thanking them for their contribution to the city. Also, the space can be available for use by other outdoor workers and neighborhood residents.

Imagining the future with fengxingxia

Right at the beginning of the project, LEL DESIGN Studio and Big Fish set up a multidisciplinary research and design team consisting of community building experts, sociologists, architects, service designers, visual designers, etc. to carry out preliminary research. The team first conducted research on the target users of the space, and through on-site workshops and other forms of investigation, they imagined and planned the functions and forms of the future station together with the fengxingxia.

The team gained multidisciplinary insights through joint work. While carrying out preliminary research and planning, LEL DESIGN STUDIO's architects also carried out studies on architectural design.

Learn from the local residents

Considering the dense residential surroundings and old scattered pipes underground, the station building is expected to be light and could be efficiently concstructed with least impact on nearby commnuity. To accomplish the aim, the architects and the structure consultants proposed multiple possibilities on light structures and quickly-built space. Then the proposals went through rounds of evaluation and comparison.