This article explores and decodes the social experiences of the ruins of St. Paul’s in Macau. The depictions of St. Paul’s as a disruptive social space are elucidated by the concepts of heterotopia, palimpsest and liminality. As a palimpsest, Macau’s ruins comprise a variety of concealed and superimposed semantic layers. One can read the ruins and decipher these semantic tiers. The reading of buildings as palimpsests recognises the paradoxical combination of their durable and transitory nature. St. Paul’s ruins encompass several stratified discourses such as cultural, historical, aesthetic. All of them are deciphered in their multivalent configurations, revealing their overarching heterotopic quality. This article aims to display St. Paul’s ruins as a culturally meaningful urban space of otherness within the ambivalent spatial realm of Macau while unfolding its disruptive nature.

本文探讨并解释了澳门圣保罗遗址的社会经历。异位，残忍和禁忌的概念阐明了圣保罗作为破坏性社会空间的描述。作为最平静的地方，澳门的废墟包括各种隐藏和叠加的语义层。人们可以阅读废墟并破译这些语义层。将建筑物解读为最迟钝的事物，认识到其持久性和短暂性的自相矛盾。圣保罗遗址包含多种分层的论述，例如文化，历史，美学。他们所有的人都以其多价构型破译，揭示了其总体异位质量。本文旨在展示圣。