The Sound of Rocks

Site : Gi-bei Island, Penghu, Taiwan

Program : a park for fishing and sea-bathing

Stone fish weirs are the products of ancient wisdom, a way of fishing still existing in Penghu. When the tide rises, the sea level is higher than the stone weirs. The fish, attracted by the seaweed within the weirs, will enter the weirs with the seawater. Fish are also scared by the sound of waves hitting the rocks. When the tide ebbs, the fish are trapped and unable to escape because the stone weirs are higher than the level of the water. The prgram of park transforms with the tide. As the tide rise, this is a park for sea-bathing and fishing. As the tide ebbs, the park became a sculpture growing out of land, a labyrinth for walking.