Taobao, the largest online shopping platform in China, is famous for products with competitive prices, bridging the customers to the producers. People in Shaji Town, known as the first Taobao Village, transformed their courtyards into workshops to make simple furniture. They had to learn to be both manufacturers and entrepreneurs, and the village gradually turned into a giant factory where people are living in.


Courtyard serves as an archetype of self-configuration of space, trying to get rid of all imposed values and causes experimentation of their everyday life. Platform is the ceremonial space that showcases of the technology and the belief system. Smart factory provides a generic space for the quick self-updating of space to happen, responding to market which liquefies the ability to prescribe the forms of lives from top down.