Future Ruins

Site : the place where Hsincheng Fault slices through Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan Program : a park recording earthquake and movement of faultrk

On the scale of million years, Hsinchu Industrial Science Park was built in forty years. However, the cut of Hsing Cheng Fault has put the seemingly perfect science park in an extremely unstable state. Therefore, it will be a process of conflict and balance between the 28 kilometers natural line and the 749 hectares artificial park.

Measurement Line A

The 500-meter line is the passage from factories 6 meters wide and 15 meters deep. It is a ramp painting formed by the geological texture. Besides connecting two sides are girders that hold up the factories to the scared hill, a process that returns to the nature from the man-made park. This is a huge crack of ramp that gradually extends into the soil. One side is made of retaining wall, and the other side displays a long Besides showing the past and history, the geological painting also monitors the future movement. The bridges the gaps, transferring the pressure of the soil from the nets and columns to the retaining wall.

Hsingcheng Fault Line

At 415 meters, you will reach the fault line, which is also the entrance to the park. The Library and Theater on the fault line will move with the fault, responding to the future tiny movement of nature.

The earthquake 270 years ago on Hsing Cheng Fault caused a vertical displacement of 1.3-1.85 meters. Moreover, the upper plate rises by 8-10 millimeters every year, and moves northwestward at a rate of 5.6 millimeters per year. I want to record the movement through space.

Library of Movement

The corridor is formed by two sloping roofs. Sunlight will shine on the fault line through the gap. The corridor is also a place for reading. In a park beyond the timescale of life, books become a trace of human in the long history.

The Metal Labyrinth

These metal walls buried in the soil will be permanently deformed by the vibration of earthquake waves, forming a huge sculpture in which a person can walk. This ever-changing landscape will be rewritten by earthquakes, forming the future ruins again and again.

Theater of Obsercation

At the end of the corridor, I placed a theater as the interface between the sacred hill and the man-made park. I wanted to create a place of seeing, where the experience of seeing and observing slowly changes through the raw power of nature - Hsing Cheng Fault.

Theater of Obsercation

When the fault moves slowly, the two ceilings on the lower plate will gradually separate, making the audience space brighter. As the stage formed by the upper plate gradually rises,the inclination of viewing the performance also implies the movement of the fault year by year.

In 300 years