“God speaks through all things and everywhere there are spirits – though to keep like intelligible we lock these off. ” -- <Fanny and Alexander>, Ingmar Bergman, 1982
"Today, I want to tell you a story. The story starts on an ordinary evening; I was walking along the river Thames when a boat appeared on its bank."
"I came close and saw this boat, it had a yellow box inside. I opened the box. Inside were lots of strange drawings, and fragments of nature."
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"I picked up a scale, wider than my hand. On it was a map that depicted the city of London, only covered in monsters. I was surprised that right next to my apartment – near Regent Park, and Primrose Hill – there was a big one. I held the scale close and looked into the monster’s eye (at the peak of Primrose Hill); in it was a giant, composed of many smaller monsters."
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Archive No.025 - Monster's skin
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Archive No.024 - A piece of monster's scales
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① Primrose Hill ② ZSL Londo Zoo ③ The Regent's Park ④ Queen Mary's Rose Gardens ⑤ Bird sensonal immigration ⑥ Regent Canal ⑦ Boating Lake Proposal site
Left：the view from bottom to top Right: The view from top to bottom
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Taking the Regent's Park and Primrose Hill as an example, the whole land was haunted by the ghost of a huge monster.
However, if we focus on the monster's eyes, we will find a giant lying inside.
When we look closely at the giant, It will be discovered that this giant's body is made up of smaller monsters.
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The whole view of the giant (From left to right: Archive No. 008 - Head of giant, No. 014 - Chest of giant, No. 068 - Belly button of giant, No. 087 - Legs of giant)
PENG
The protagonist of the today's story
"At the giant’s navel was a monster made of half bird and half fish. The poems in the box called it Peng, it is the protagonist of today’ story. Once in the body of the giant there lived a poet. They were lovers who only whispered on the wind. Peng was born of a monstrous bird and an equally monstrous fish; he was windknowing, and so it was that the poet stayed in Peng’s body to wait for wind to hear from his giant lover."
THE SONG OF PENG In the northern ocean, there is a fish, called the Kun, I do not know how many thousand miles in size. This Kun changes into a bird, called the Peng. Its back is I do not know how many thousand miles in breadth. When it is moved, it flies, its wings obscuring the sky like clouds. When on a voyage, this bird prepares to start for the Southern Ocean. When the Peng flies southwards, the water is smitten for a space of three thousand miles around, its breath forms a great wind, while the bird itself mounts upon the wind to a height of ninety thousand miles, for a flight of six months' duration. And for this bird, a depth of ninety thousand miles is necessary to bear it up. Then, gliding upon the wind, with nothing save the clear sky above, and no obstacles in the way. There mounting aloft, the bird saw the moving white mists of spring, the dust-clouds, and the living things blowing their breaths among them. It wondered whether the blue of the sky was its real colour, or only the result of distance without end, and saw that the things on earth appeared the same to it. A cicada and a young dove laughed, saying, "Now, when I fly with all my might, 'this as much as I can do to get from tree to tree. And sometimes I do not reach, but fall to the ground midway. What then can be the use of going up ninety thousand miles to start for the south?" The fungus plant of a morning knows not the alternation of day and night. The cicada knows not the alternation of spring and autumn. How could momentary exist realize eternity? The cicada and the young dove asked him, “Now, why didn't you fly directly to the edge of the universe, but stopped at this small and normal place?” I fly 800 kilometres by the wind every day, breathing with all living beings. With the earth to travel 40 thousand kilometres, with the Galaxy to swing in the boundless universe. What’s the difference? Eternity is not an answer, it is in the process. Follow the nature of the universe, roaming through the realms of the infinite, upon what, then, would such a one have to need to depend? However, Peng is only a part of a larger life.
"I pulled through the poems, and delicate pieces, trying to restore an appearance for Peng. "
"I felt that I knew him from the drawings, and poems, and the monstrous bits left behind." This is one day in the life of the poet: "The poet climbed to an entrance along Pengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legs. Through thick curtains, he walked onto a narrow corridor with animal fur soft on each arm. The poet sat gently in the ear, waking up the sleeping pupa. He was waiting for the familiar voice of the giant. Suddenly, Peng started to sing. The wind flowed from his beak. Every breath brought fresh detail of the giantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for his poet. "
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"When Peng raised his wings, the poet felt them both flying smoothly alongside the wind."
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"As I read of their love, I wanted to feel the rich wind, and so I learned to fly. For me, the wind was a language I could control, combining direction, force, temperature, sound, and smell."
I was practicing paragliding
The principle of paragliding
"Peng faced southwest, welcoming every wind. The wind brushes every inch of Peng's skin and passed through its body with Peng's breath."
Peng narrates the wind into three sentences ： The wind is coming: The giant says – How are you.
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WIND IS COMING ! Peng's top view
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① The wind blows the flute ② The wind blows through Peng's body ③ Wind paddles the wind sensor
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WIND LANGUAGE A - WIND IS COMING! A SECRET SIGNAL FOR THE POET "This was Peng’s secret code for the poet. The wind whipped along a fish fin on Peng’s belly, pulling at little wings on a little Peng. "
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Pulley wheel
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Wings made from fish scales
Wings made from fish scales
Rope Pupa table
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Little Peng front view 1:8
Little Peng section 1:8
Little Peng's components according to the Cabinet of Curiosity
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Wind sensor little Peng
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WIND LANGUAGE A - WIND IS COMING! A SECRET SIGNAL FOR THE POET "The poet judged the force of the wind by these wings and turned pulley rings near his hand to raise Peng’s wings. finally, they drifted together in the wind."
chain system
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③ Little Bird ② Chain Ring A ① Wind Sensor
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WIND LANGUAGE B - THE GIANT SAYS... A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE POET AND SOUTHWEST WINDS "The wind came through the body of the giant, through Peng’s beak and pass over the poet’s shoulders. "
Oak Wood Wood panel as a window Metal spindle Wood panel facing the wind
Metal spindle Reference from Archive No. 30- Aeolian flying across the wall Three wind tunnels Spring pulling the lower beam
Beak detail 1:8 Oak Wood
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Metal panel for cooling the air
Spring pulling the lower beam
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WIND LANGUAGE B - THE GIANT SAYS... A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE POET AND SOUTHWEST WINDS
"The poet replied in a poem, returning it on the wind through Pengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tail as a circle of loving discourse."
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Peng's Tail
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WIND LANGUAGE C - HOW ARE YOU? GREETING TO OTHER ANIMALS "The wind passed through Pengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beak with a sharp sound; this sound was a greeting to the animals in London zoo."
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Peng weas made of the world around him. Animal wool, thatch, willow rods, and fish skin came from the Zoo, Fisher Lake, Regentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park, and so on.
Local fish monger - whole fish skin to make Peng's wings
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Archive No.028 a fragment of Peng's wings The Regent's Park - lawn thatch for outside insulation
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Archive No.019 a piece of Peng's skin
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Archive No.012 a piece of Peng's skin
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Archive No.025 a piece of Peng's skin
Boatinig Lake: Bird feather, park's ornamental waterfowl feather and fish skin
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Archive No.030 a piece of wood bone
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Process of tanning fish skin to leather
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The fish skins are came from : Local fish monger ZSL London Zoo Boating lake
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Wash it with clean water for 5mins
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Put into solution (vegetable glycerin and rubbing alcohol 1:1) and let sit for 24 hours.
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Archive No. 025 Stretch it flat and dry on board for 24 hours.
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Fish leather crust. - Fish leather ironed and coloured.
Then massage, r ub, stretch and work the skin until it is soft and flexible. This can take several hours to do.
Sewing fish skins together.
A fish skin unit 127cm*25cm
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"The skin on Pengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body was made from thatch, pieces of oak, willow, and animal wool in a tight pattern. "
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PENG'S SKIN - BODY "Like human skin, Pengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was made of three layers; the outer layer of thatch would shed off by the wind to adapt to heat in the summer."
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Summertime Thatch were blowed away by wind
A schematic cross-section of human skin
The thatch grows thin like a human hair falling out.
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PENG'S SKIN - BODY "The animals of the London zoo and the dogs that live around Peng gave their wool, fur, and hair for making the skin."
Unfolded plan
Residents in ZSLLondon Zoo who would like to donate their hair:
Area covered by animal wool.
Nearby dogs and cats who would like to donate their hairs:
Process of making a piece of Peng's interior skin
Make a properly sized wooden frame, Thin layer of batting. This layer should Making a fluffy layer by quickly and Raw fleece, cut-side to batting repeatedly ripping off fairly small lay one piece of the spa cover (bubble- be fairly see-through, flat, and even. side up) in the frame. amounts of fiber from the batting and throwing it over the first, flat layer of batting.
Full-filling with raw fleece.
Repeat rolling three more times, press Take off the spa-cover, lay the fiber on Drizzle with hot water and squeeze Spray the felted until most of the soap Pull open the wool which stick together harder in each time. the mesh frame. some dish soap in thin stripes onto the is washed out. felted side.
Pour hot water on it little by little, until Place the second layer of spa cover, Tightly roll the layers around a long stick it all get wet. Start compressing down bubble-side down (toward the fleece) and secure the package in three places and getting flat. over fiber layers. with strings or nylons.
Finished backside
Finished frontside
"This is the story of the poet and Peng."
"In a slice of Pengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body, it could either be a monster, or a little toy. "
"Peng is an independent monster, and also play a role of the giant's navel. "
"At night, Peng missed other friends; they looked at each other from a distance. "
"The secret of these friends â&#x20AC;&#x201C; these monsters spread across London â&#x20AC;&#x201C; were all in the box that I found on that night, waiting for me to live again."
"This is the end of the story."
"By the way, a few days ago I received a postcard from the poet and Peng. It was the best gift ever: God speaks through all things and everywhere there are spirits â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though to keep like intelligible we lock these off. â&#x20AC;?
GA ———— Existing Site Plan 1:5500 Proposed Site Plan 1:400 Section 1:25 Plan A 1:20 Plan B 1:20 Plan C 1:20
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Section 1:25 ① Cherry tree ② Rain storage ③ Pulley wheel ④ Book holder ⑤ Pupa table ⑥ Chain wheel ⑦ Ear chair ⑧ Exit for the poem
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