Milieus are complex interactive amalgamations of objects, behaviors, and memories in the environment, enclosing our routine life. In particular, in my historic hometown Dihua Street in Taiwan, these amalgamations arouse our sense of “awareness in milieus”, which triggers residents to think of some other things, that no longer exist or never exist.
Moholy Nagy put it well when he said: “Superimpositions overcome space and time fixations and unite strange and diverging subjects into new entities, revealing unnoticed structural qualities in the objects.”
With the strong affection to my hometown, I set out my journey to re-imagine futures of historic places through the approaches, called “alternative means” for regeneration to physically and mentally record the very essence in milieus and define harmonious architectural paradigms for human beings. This is the underlying motivation of this portfolio Alternative Documents of Milieus.
by YuCheng Huang in Jan.2020
