Wang Qiaochu is a Chinese designer currently based in London. She studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and is now completing her MA in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art. Her practice focuses on architectural reuse and exhibition storytelling, with a strong interest in using spatial strategies to express cultural emotion and the spirit of place. She has participated in exhibition and research-based projects at Roca Gallery.

Her RCA graduation project, Crane Play, is a future-oriented architectural material reuse factory set in Canary Wharf. Using the crane as a spatial device, the project combines urban logistics and building maintenance to propose a spatial system that lies between everyday operation and theatrical performance. It reimagines vertical circulation and maintenance infrastructures, merging the imagery of machinery, performance, and labor into a visible, dynamic flow of reused materials.

In contrast to the repetitive, sealed-off logic of conventional office towers in Canary Wharf, Crane Play breaks the monotony of functional stacking and commercial neutrality. It aims to make the building’s daily processes visible and tangible—turning acts of dismantling, repair, and reconstruction into a public urban presence. Through the theatrical translation of construction-site language, the building gains rhythm, spontaneity, and narrative quality, transforming material reuse from backstage labor into a shared and legible urban story.