2049 Intersexual Meta-Bureau Part 1 Project 2020 Siyuan Shen University of Nottingham Ningbo | China This architectural project proposes a gradual formation of a blurred gender division, to address gender equality and a deeper understanding between two sexes. The project attempts to tell the story of the emerging and sanctification of Androgyny, a universal psychological archetype of the perfect being, in a society without sexual prejudice. The architecture thus has become the sanctum sanctorum on the city’s tapestry for its believers to preach their gender spectrum through a ritualistic monomyth. Inspired by the scenes depicted in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science-fiction The Left Hand of Darkness, that is, a world without sexism on an icebound planet, this project foretells a scenario that Ningbo, a seaport city, bedevilled by a severe flood in 2049, whose historical inheritances of the intercultural fusion promise the arrival of the new perspective. Navigating through various spaces, the architecture offers a metamorphosing journey related with a metaphorical water treatment process for visitors’ transformation, as well as the water’s presence in the context of Yong River. Situating in between reality and fiction, the project fictitiously speculates a tangible reality in the future. Tutor(s) Wenjuan Ll Maycon Sedrez Jing Xie