Metropolitan city is like a gigantic machine that challenges its inhabitants on a daily basis to conform and to perform in terms of productivity and efficiency. Life is standardized and synchronized to benefit collective functioning at the expense of mental balance and spiritual well-being. There are practically no time and no space to reflect or contemplate, especially outside of churches and organized religions. This thesis project faces such reality in modern China with a non-standard space that provides city dwellers with a stress-free spiritual experience to contemplate, meditate, worship, and otherwise practice any faith individually or in groups of various sizes, and to meet fellow urbanites with spiritual needs.
