CHIA-WEI HUNG 1993, Mar. 54 Noll St, Apt 611, Brooklyn, 11206, NY derek421017@gmail.com +1 (332)248-8752
EDUCATION 2021-Present
The Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Manhattan, NY Master of Science in Architecture
2011-2016
Chung Yuan Christian University, Collage of Design - Architecture Taoyuan, Taiwan Bachelor of Architecture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 2021-Present
The Cooper Union, Manhattan, NY | Part-time Job in Architecture Archive • Assited with for monthly architectural exhibition
2020-2021
Freelancer, New Taipei City, Taiwan | Architectural Designer • The Light Seeker- Yonghe Residance - Interior Design Project/ Project Manager
2020-2021
2020 Open House Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan | Project Manager • Worked as a space coordinator and creative curator
2020-2021
Freelancer, Taipei, Taiwan | Book Designer, Editor • Modern Architecture and Transplanted Modernity in Postwar Taiwan/ Graphic Design, Editing
2017-2019
ARMU design + architecture, Taipei, Taiwan | Architectural Designer • Dana Housing Project/ Project Manager • FION Retail & Factory Design/ Designer • Taipei Zhong-Zheng Senior High School Facade Design/ Construction Supervisor • Chung Hwa Pulp Corporation Landscape Design/ Designer
summer '16
Harmonious Architects & Planners, Yilan, Taiwan | Design Internship • Exhibition of 3rd ADA Awards for Emerging Architects/ Project Manager
summer '15
Yilan, Taiwan | Design Internship • Urban Planning Project of Dongshan River/ Lead Designer
SKILLS 3D
Rhinoceros 3D, Sketch-up pro, Thea Render, V-Ray, Lumion 8
2D
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut,
Language
English, Mandarin Chinese
2021. Professional/ Housing Project
Seeking Light/ Sight
OO1 THE LIGHT SEEKER OO House 2021. Housing Project \ Solo Work Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan
2021. Professional/ Housing Project
Seeking Light/ Sight
2021. Professional/ Housing Project
Seeking Light/ Sight
2021. Professional/ Housing Project
Seeking Light/ Sight
2021. Professional/ Housing Project
Seeking Light/ Sight
2022. Cooper Union/ Body Studio
OO2 Form of Body Space Deconstructe urbanspace through skateboarding 2022. Spring - The Cooper Union \ Solo Work Instructor: Diana Agrest
Skateboarding is a sport about desire. In 2020 Tokyo Olympics game, we have seen skateboarders trying to challenge on fluidity, difficulty, speed, height, creativity, and the action of the body. However, in the city, skateboarders could not express their desire by exploring the city. We could discover no skateboarding signs around our living space and life. The contradiction of this body becomes an interesting relationship with streets and buildings since the skateboarding route is only known or seen by a skateboarder, and it adds another unseen layer to the city. The desire of exploring a city from public to private and solid to void, is a desire of the body to express the body itself.
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2022. Cooper Union/ Elements
OO3 Joint the ( ) 2021. Fall - The Cooper Union \ Solo Work Instructor: Austin Wade Smith
2022. Cooper Union/ Elements
Participate / Isolate 2021. Fall - The Cooper Union \ Solo Work Instructor: Austin Wade Smith
PROJECT OO1 COVER IMAGE
02:07 am When I fell asleep with a city that I dream.......
OO4 CITY PROJECTION The Lost Beauty of The City 2016. Thesis Project-undergraduate \ Solo Work Instructor: Min-Tse Li Location: Port of Keelung
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
Architecture demonstrates the thoughts and values of decision-makers. In modern society, economic development seems to be the only prize people are chasing. Yet, by doing this, too much has been lost.
Capitalistic societies bloom homogeneity. Gradually, people lose a part of themselves and forget how to live with spirit. For most people, the port of Keelung, Taiwan’s key port city, has a feeling of being grim and unapproachable, a tricky and oversized urbanscape. Keelung, was a city built to support others, to create a great amount of business. The hyper-focus on business led to the diminishment of public spaces in the city. This project aimed to reflect and question the development of the modern city. I tried to create this kind of space, feeling consumed with the desire of the city in a dream. My vision was to deconstruct the city, to show its invisible side. In its reconstruction, the interaction among people, the environment, and the city would be most important. Lastly, dreamer as a revealer, audience as a participant, roaming from one perspective of this city to another.....
2016.YEAR 5/ Thesis Design Project
I am sinking in the ocean, up and down, watching people enjoy the s u n l i g h t , t h e w a r m th , a n d th e wind......
03:01 am The port comes to life, sound and on my face. I am a little dizzy......I am awake, the city is awake.
memory of city / urban
mountains / city / ocean
THE RULES
Site
In order to build up an efficient city system, the government used to set the rules. It was necessary to erase the original framework of the city to build new rules. In doing so, they blocked out the memories and stories of the locals. In my observation, today, Keelung no longer generates prosperity. What did that order actually mean in this now empty city? There are a lot of boundaries blocking the freedom to move.
The Rule of City Mountain area Coastline Harbor Context of City
The curve and irregular coastline was a dynamic feature. The relationship between people and nature was closer in the past.
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1888 In this period, Keelung was the most prosperous port in Ta i w a n . B u i l d i n g s and boundaries were erected in the busy core of the city. Gradually, the significance of the city changed.
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2016.YEAR 5/ Thesis Design Project
DESIRE BLOCK: A straight/ fragmented city
There are two kinds of desire- the government’s and the people's. However, the former presides over the latter. I am recalling the city I lived in, the artificial barriers that occupied public spaces. A lot of structures crisscrossing through oceans and mountains. Still half asleep, I see the clock over the bed. It is about three in the morning.
Site/ 1960s
There is a subterranean river below the city, an invisible landscape under those desires. People live close to the water, but they never know it.
memory of city / urban
cruise ship A super scale machine temporary moored in the harbor.
mountain cutting highway To import resourse to the capital, the highway is the shortcut.
Boundary of port
rialway
If ones run to the port, he must see the blue o c e a n . H o w e v e r, i n Keelong, people can see a huge wall instead the ocean.
Because of the rialway, citiziens were hard to cross through to another side.
The authorities build the fence to make a rule that people cannot approach the river.
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on the river I n t h e p r o s p e r i t y, p e o p l e needed a lot of place to build a business, so government started to develop some area that should not be developed. EX: build on the river. In order to efficiently support the business proceedings, the government developed a crisscross system. An order that ruled every rule.
2016.YEAR 5/ Thesis Design Project
Buzzing, the boat is ready to make port. I see a strange long building in front of me...... a little panicked, I walk slowly toward this enormous building. The fish market is going to open. Vendors are busy unloading cargo. I look at my watch, it's 3:38 am......The building seems to be deconstructed, yet I can still see a lot of people working in it. They cannot see me. There is a river flowing under the building, I can see it through the breach of the building. The color of the water is dark...full of depression and greed. However, in my memory, there was no river here...... On the left, a billboard reflects the image of the city with the mountain behind it. Depending on one's position, it can reflect different views of the city. However, I have never seen the mountains behind t h e c i t y b e f o re . T h i s b u i l d i n g seems to be growing along with my consciousness’.
memory of city / urban
2016.YEAR 5/ Thesis Design Project
Finding The Lost Memory Wait......I have never seen this building in Keelung. Even if I had seen it before, it did not look like this. I cannot remember it...... I started to think about why I was there. I have never seen this subterranean river before. No one told me about it, and I have never heard of it before. This is not Keelung, it seems similar but it isn’t. I always remembered Keelung as a prosperous, but unhappy city. A city does not possess emotion, but people pour their emotions into it. Is this what we want? I am not sure. I recall a childhood memory. In the city, each code represents a certain memory. This building must be a memory bank showing us what we lost...... Or maybe the city was projected by my subconscious, an aggregate of desire. If this is fake, what is real? A river that people have never seen? I am confused.....
roof garden Producing a public natural world on a higher level to connect with the mountains. Pretending to disregard the rules. section of the building It never manifests in reality, yet opening a cross-section of the building to let people see the section is the goal. billboard of city reflection Like a mirror, the image of the city is overlain with different sections on a translucent billboard: a board usually appears in the capital city. fish market In the past, fishermen anchored their boats in the city to sell the day’s catch turning the street into traditional market. Hsu-Chuan River Died in 1975 subterranean river Nowadays, few people know the river. People constantly discharge waste and toxic chemicals into this unknown river.
The memories of the city
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memory of city / urban
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subterranean river
billboard of city reflection
A-A' SECTION
2016.YEAR 5/ Thesis Design Project
Finally, I climb to the rooftop where a garden is. I am surrounded by trees, and the soft breeze gently sweeps against my skin. At this moment, I am detaching from the the trees. Suddenly, the towering peaks catch my eye. I never noticed the outskirts of Keelung before. The magnificent spectacle spread itself out before my eyes. It seems I am living in a state of perpetual deja vu. Everywhere I go, I feel I have already been. 4:29 am I lay on the bed, trying to recall every detail of my dream. I don't want to wake up. I don't want to wake up in this cold tiny concrete room. I walk to the kitchen have a g l a s s o f w h i s k e y, s i t i n t h e armchair, see the old postcard on the wall......the image on it is the same as my dream, I never noticed that the photo on the postcard is Keelung...... I think about the dream, everything in that world was trying to say something to me. No...... not really, this is my dream, so maybe I want to say something to someone else, every part trying to connect to reality. Was it a dream, or a /time that was forgotten by the people. It's 6:02 am I am going to swim...Actually, I'll look for the subterranean river today.
memory of city / urban
2015.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
lifestyle / landscape
OO5 BETWEEN HORIZON A Juxtaposed Context of Balanced Life 2015. 4th year, Option Studio \ Solo Work Instructor: Sheng-Yuan Huang Tsung-Hung Pai Location: Chilidan, Jiaoxi, Yilan
Urban planning plays a critical part especially in Taiwan, profitability dominates the authority of urban spaces. This project aimed to open public space in the interest of economic urban renewal in Chilidan, and to discuss the relationship between local culture and daily life. For me, life is an “inbetween” experience, between different lifestyles instead of a union. Therefore, I was trying to provide a chance that makes people live inbetween, escape temporarily from the original life, and regulate the shape of life.
2015.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
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ONE LIFE Since the Japanese-Occupied Period, Jiaoxi was known for hot springs. Locals used to explicit hot spring on bathing and farming. In 2006, the Hsuehshan Tunnel was completed. The tunnel connected Taipei to Yilan County, cutting down the journey time from two hours to just half an hour. Because of this convenience, Jiaoxi’s economy boomed. Out of all the towns in Ilan, Jiaoxi grew the fastest. This was because of the hot springs.
In contrast, on the other side of the railway, Chilidan, people still led the traditional lives of farming and fishing. Nowadays, however, people no longer have hot springs, agriculture or aquaculture to develop. Thus, traditional industries are in decline, as construction takes over. There is a type of lifestyle going to eliminate others.
lifestyle / landscape
Mountain Hot Springs Fields
Ocean Hot Springs Hotels
Hot Springs Fields
Hot Springs Hotels Railway
Route of Hot Springs Railway Site: Chilidan
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2015.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
SENSE OF LIFE In order to have a deeper insight into the culture and local life in Chilidan, I tried to live as much like a local as possible, walk on a path that was closer to daily life which allowed visitors to aware of the context of life rather than the asphalt roads. While I roamed, I attempted to experience the land with my body. I listened to the locals’ stories.
In Chilidan, temple life was slow, and the diversity of people’s experiences so intriguing. This area was set higher than the downtown area. Depending on where I stood I got different views of the landscape which I never experienced in the city’s center.
lifestyle / landscape
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URBAN RENEWAL Gentrification not only wipes out the original spiritof a place but also brings conformity to life. What I experienced in Chilidan I haven’t experienced in other places. This is the most valuable and unique characteristic of Chilidan.
Commercial District Residential District Transfer Station Land Use for Park
I enjoyed roaming in those farms and the remains. It felt like a playground, connecting different people together.
lifestyle / landscape
STRATEGY New urban planning solution: This solution was based on what I experienced, and how I tried to connect local culture to the kind of urban planning I envisioned. With this new strategy, I calculated the area of the original parkland, and on it, expressed the culture of Chilidan. The remains of Trionyx Farms.
2015.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
LIVE IN BETWEEN The horizon contained two different worlds, up and down, shuttling between the new and the old not only provided an opportunity for farmers to show their products to the people but a new way for people to travel between history and present reality. The integration of several programs allowed people to rethink the relationship between body and environment. It is the only way to explore one's perception: constantly moving rather than staying static on either side.
swimming pool the tunnel Ones can easily touch and look the water surface.
aquaponic This area present the natural ecology of Chi Li Dan. Also, an outdoor classroom for vistors and students.
A kind of daily life in Yi Lan. Life so close to water that people cannot possess in urban.
city garden A garden that make citizens leave the city temporary.
Th e h e i g h o f t h e basin makes more fun for life.
lifestyle / landscape
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon
Final Critic on Site / Facing the Reality The studio is surrounded by hot springs and rivers. During our daily morning swims, Professor Huang spoke to us about local life and how the environment impacted the way people lived. We d i s c o v e r e d a d y n a m i c conversation between life and design. is always to face the reality in practice. The final critic on-site with 1/100 site model (250 x 340 x 25 cm), There were professors from local universities, the mayor, and neighbors who allowed me to discuss the future development of Jiaoxi. It opened a conversation with people and the administrative powers who lived in Chilidan for decades.
Architect / Deep cultivation of construction of Yilan for decades.
Models / 250cm x 340cm x 25cm Scale: 1/100 Professor / National Yilan University Hot Springs Specialist
Professor / DEPT. of Architecture/ CYCU Township Mayor / Jiaoxi
2014.YEAR 3/ Core Studio Project
The privatization of public space is a serious issue in Taiwan. Especially in the growing city of Taichung. There are tons of buildings constructed with concrete walls and glass curtains to enclose private spaces but this, in turn, creates more boundaries and less flow through the city. As a result, the only public spaces in the city are tedious the city in a stripped-down way; that is, as if tearing all the walls down people can feel and see the vivid and energetic city with the activities which happen at a different level.
OO6 THE CITY LAB Liberate The Civilization of The City 2014. 3th year, Core Studio \ Solo Work Instructor: Chuan-Chih Chang Location: Taiwan, Taichung
experience / city
MEET The location of the city lab is near the famous green belt walkway in Taichung. Locals used to take a walk, ride a bike, or have picnics there. MEETING OTHERS is a popular activity on this green land. My purpose was to create a type of space in the city which has different heights and layers. Also, I tried to produce an experience of wandering. In this experience, as people of the spaces change. They make the ground events extend to a higher and spatial landscape.
Prototype: producing an interactive space with a ramp for people to freely wander on and also enjoy visual and audio input. Several activities happen simultaneously on the deck and the hill.
2014.YEAR 3/ Core Studio Project
From Land to Ramp The concept comes from the foothills of Taichung. The undulating terrain makes the walking experience more interesting, and makes the approach of activities inadvertent. In the city lab, the act of walking becomes a blur, people move to different levels in an unconscious way. In this movement, people are free to shuttle constantly between land and ramp, and between different events in the city.
18cm 1x1: stair 1x2: ramp 2x2: stool 2x5: podium
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experience / city
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An Endless Space
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
2019 Naked Island \ The Vanished 19"50 - 27"00 \ Director: Mi-Sen Wu Interview Location: Taipei The first episode of Naked Island, "Invisible Me", compares architecture by penetrating music. Music is like a flowing building. However, music is invisible, it is the art of time, architecture is tangible, and time is cruel. In the passage of time, there are many buildings that have disappeared in Taiwan (such as Zhunghua Shopping Yard), illegally preserved buildings (such as Mitsui Warehouse), or those that have been preserved in absurd ways (such as Bopiliao Historic Block, Lin An Tai Historical House, Sisi Nancun ... etc). The director of this episode tries to prove that architecture also has a narrative form through the common characteristics of film and architecture, to carry out these architectures, the relationship between landscape and space, including the human body, memory, and architecture. Although these "disappeared" buildings are already "invisible me", they can help us "see" the appearance of that generation and "see" our own appearance. One must remember the past to imagine the future.
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Naked Island \ The Vanished EP1| Trailer
ethnic groups / public space
OO7 THE WALL OF IDENTITY Break Down The Wall In Mind 2014. 4th year, Option Studio \ Solo Work Instructor: Li-Yu Hsu Location: Istanbul
In the winter of 2014, I got a chance to do architectural research in Istanbul. I looked up the historical background of this city before my trip. In order to think of the best proposal, I had to cultivate a deeper understanding of the current situation in Istanbul at that time. The project focused on the discussion of the connection between the locals and refugees in this city. I looked at this city with a Taiwanese eye, hoping to provide an objective platform for the discussion of the issue. I conceptualized “Taiwan Pavilion in Istanbul”.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
Crusades Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Army on Penghu
The Yuan dynasty occupy Penghu
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Netherlands/ Spain occupy Taiwan
War was crucial to Taiwan and Turkey building their nations. Looking back at the history of these two countries, they both experienced different wars and occupants. Thus, in the beginning, I started to focus on ''WAR'', and tried to understand this word even though nowadays most countries no longer experience war in that way.
TRAVEL/ WAR The old English word TRAVEL was originally the same as “travail” meaning “trouble”, “work”, or “torment” which in turn comes from the Latin “tripalium”, a three-staked instrument of torture. Travel is thus linked, etymologically, to aggression. Since the First World War, the lure old travel has been built directly into the seductive language of military recruitment. Advertisements for the armed forces promise military service as a way to ''SEE THE WORLD'' an opportunity otherwise available solely to the leisure class.
ethnic groups / public space
Tulip Period
Civil War
Xi'an coup Retreat to Taiwan
Siege of Fort Zeelandia
* The motion of refugees in Middle East War whether also as a journey for refugees.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
I was asked if I could take a photo for them, yet their facial expressions looked overwhelming. I feel helpless about whether I could give them any help.
PROBLEM of THE CITY? When it comes to the issue of refugees, there is always a portion of local citizens who are strongly prejudiced against them. However, which paints a negative picture of refugees. The refugee problem is considered a serious one. But what actually is the “real problem of the city”? What if these immigrants were actually free travelers. Would the local citizens have the same negative opinion of them? Is it because of the clothes they wear, the color of their skin or their languages that are the real problems?
18 November 2014 Last updated at 13:00 GMT Recent news from Syria has been dominated by the battle against IS. But almost four years after what began as peaceful pro- tests, half the population is st ill displaced, large swathes of the country lie in ruin, and President Assad is still firmly in power. Fighting continues across the country. Aboud Dandashi is originally from Homs and is an IT proj- ect manager. He is 38 years old and fled to Istanbul in September 2013. 13 November 2014 Last updated at 10:07 GMT Turkey is home to more than a million Syrian refugees, with many living in camps near the border or in cities such as Istanbul. The huge influx of people has caused tensions within some communities and there are also fears some refugees are being exploited by landlords. Mark Lowen visited a neighbourhood in Istanbul to find out more.
ethnic groups / public space
NON-PUBLIC SPACE In Istanbul, I could see a great number of refugees destitute, living on the streets. The Turkish people were angry about refugees living on the streets in the city. I stood for some time in the center of Taksin square,observing the hatred the Turkish people aimed toward those refugees; they yelled and drove the refugees away. It seemed that the public space was never available for the homeless.
Site Refugees
Taksin square is a famous plaza in Istanbul, it has held a great number of public events. In 2014, a lot of refugees gathered there. They started to squat there, but the Turks did not welcome them.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
A MUSICALITY CITY I was thinking about the connection between different identities. Since the first day I arrived in Istanbul, I heard tons of sound; the city seems like a big audio party, people can experience different melody in every corner of the city. Since people joined the small concert beside the street, everyplace could throw a musical party at any time. At this moment, people would not depart in a different group, they dance, they sing, and they laugh together.
I collected the sound in Istanbul to build an urban soundscape. The audio map was the collection of local sound which included the sound of different religious activities, the melody of the street musicians, and various languages.
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ethnic groups / public space
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
THE WALL To block people's appearance and focus on the sound, I built a wall in the middle of Taksin square. One side of this wall is translucent(city side), people can see the blur shape of the moving man but not their identity. The other side of the wall(parkland side) is a stage for different people to demonstrate their talents. Since I cannot block the sound, people on both sides can hear the music. When people in the city side heard the beautiful melody and trying to go through the wall, they will discover the music is played by the people who wear different clothes. Sometimes people should take out those comparative sights to share and love each other.
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ethnic groups / public space
IDENTITY In operating this project, it was difficult for me to define the identity of the refugees. This is why this wall has become a Taiwan Pavilion in Turkey. For me Taiwan is my country, but internationally, is this country a country? Or a place where the chaos and loss of identity are like refugees internationally.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
representation
OO8 non-Architecture From Films To Expression 2014. 4th year, Option Studio \ Solo Work/ Group Work with Duo-Li Lin Instructor: Li-Yu Hsu Location: Zhongli, Taoyuan
This project was divided into 3 parts: Firstly, I was inspired by the book, Spaces of Neolib- eralization: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographi- cal Development, written by David Harvey. It became the basis of my discussion on the spatial relationship in this project. Secondly, based on Harvey's theory, I tried to analyze those space relations in two movies (Paris I Love You, The Giver). Through this, I used a different perspective to interpret the movie and space. Lastly, all the results and analysis had to convert into space (architecture) issue. Therefore, we (I with my partner) chose a site, Da Guang Yuan, besides our studio to represented what we thought about the city based on those movies. In this phase, in order to learn the history of Da Guang Yuan, we did a lot of field research in this old community. Finally, we build installation and held a movie festival on the site to memorize those old-time with neighbors. *Part 1&2 were solo work, and the 3rd part was a group work with Duo-li Lin.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
Space as a keyword/ PART 1: Reference from David Harvey David Harvey considers space has a deeper meaning than ''absolute space''. He states “it was to understand urban processes under capitalism”. I tried to take his point of view to see another aspect of the authorities in space.
Relative Space (time)
Relational Space (time)
Spatial Practice
Representations of Space
Representaional Space
walls, bridges, doors, stairways, floors, ceilings, streets, buildings, cities, mountains, bodies of water, territorial markers, physical boundaries and barriers, gated communities...
cadastral and administrative maps; Euclidean geometry; metaphors of confinement, open space, location, placement and positionality; (command and control relatively easy)- Newton and Descartes
feelings of contentment around the hearth; sense of security or incarceration from enclosure; sense of power from ownership, command and dominationover space; fear of others ''beyond the pale.''
circulation and flows of energy; water, air, commodities, people, i n f o r m a t i o n , m o n e y, c a p i t a l ; accelerations and diminution in the friction of distance...
thematic and topological maps; non-Euclidean geometries and topology;perspectival drawings metaphors of situted knowledges, of motion, mobility, displacement;(command and control
anixiety at not getting to class on time; thrill of moving into the unknown; frustration in the traffic jam; tension of exhiliarations of time-space compression, of speed, of motion.
Einstein and Reimann
e l e c t r o m a g n e t i c e n e rg y f l o w s and fields; social relations; rental and economic potential surfaces; pollution concentrations; energy potentials; sounds, odors and sensations wafted on the breeze
surrealism; existentialism; psychogeographies; cyberspace; metaphors of internalization of forces and power;(command and control extremely
visions, fantasies, desires, frustrations, memories, dreams, phantasms, psychic states (e.g. agoraphobia, vertigo, claustrophobia)
relations, quantum mathematics)Leibniz, Whitehead, Deleuze, Benjamin
Film/ PART 2-1:PARIS I LOVE YOU 07 TOUR EIFFEL Sylvain Chomet
The main actor: no name mime artist
Based on Harvey's approaches, I analyzed the relationship of space in the text. In NO.07 TOUR EIFFEL of PARIS I LOVE YOU, I observed the interaction between the main actor and others. In order to see the relationship between the actor's emotion and the atmosphere, I looked into the storyboards to analyze people's clothing, scenes, and expression. Standing in a different perspective to read the script and do the space works.
representation O. Paris
1. Story Telling
2. Mime Artist
3. City Of Love
6. Rules
7. Emotional Effect
9. Illusion/ Reality
1O. Mimicking
11. Mimicking
13. Mimicking
14. Mimicking
15. In Love
illusion reality
4. Inner World
5. Illusion/ Reality
illusion reality
8. Innerself
illusion reality
12. Duplicate
illusion reality
16. I Love You
illusion reality
spatial practice representations of space representational space emotional curve
17. Represent
19. Imagnation
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
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1.Actor's motion tracking in Paris. contrast, others were ordering reality. 3.The mime artist represented a real life that people often lived rather than an Utopia.
RELATIONS of SPACE Identical/ people feel safe when they are all the same. Paris, a city constantly copied to produce a perfect view that people always dream. In the story, the main character seems to be a fictional existence, he story was too perfect to be true. Think about ourself, that depression, loneliness, and differentiation always happen in our life. The experience of roaming in Paris is a dream that people always want to pursue.
PERFECT / REALITY 600 cm
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projector 11 760 cm
I took this experience into a spatial practice. As the main character, participants have been transplanted into an heterogeneous space which mix of different urbanscape and soundsacpe. To reflect the image of the city, it is interesting to use projection of moving images to show the different aspects of a metropolitan urban area; it is also an exploration of urban, metropolitan spaces and how bodies relate to them. It will depend on participants' perception and experience.
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I am trying to represent this experience into a space art. As the same condition as the mime artist, participants have been transplanted into an heterogeneous space which mix of different urbanscape and soundsacpe.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
Film/ PART 2-2:The Giver I analyzed another film, the giver, and combined the ideas I gained previously. ''The utopia is the symbol of perfect, but it has to be completed by a lot of rules''. That is, the president of the village blocked the emotion to avoid people producing love or hatred. However, the reality is not always perfect, and the memory will only be valuable if the life is not perfect.
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The Giver
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City Guard kill infant
resistance President
The Giver
Nurse
PERFECT LIFE
ANTI-UTOPIA
UTOPIA
NON-PERFECT LIFE Life has multi-faceted to experience, there's no accurate utopia or anti-utopia in reality. That is to say, everyone can reorganize the chart which is the perfect world belong theirself.
Producing Space in Action / PART 3: Da Guang Yuan To represent the concept of the films, we built a new relationship of space in Da Guang Yuan- an old village within the modern city. Because the village was built for a long time, the context of the village was following their daily needs. The open space used to be a public space where the neighbors were playing cards, having dinner, and chatting together. The vivid atmosphere in this intimate community was something I found precious and characteristic of this place.
The sad story about this site is that, the government has planned to tear down this old village in order to build new buildings. Therefore, my installation was expected to re ect this urban issue on the spot. I was aiming for the gathering of local identities and the retrospectives of their old times.
MEMORIES On the site, there is a lot of groceries that been used by the ancients. At that moment, I could feel the vibe of the old ’80s... as if the people who live around this neighborhood were gathered together again... I can almost imagine those good old days with the position of the furniture. Considering a city as a polymer, and those elements are city codes; each code obtains different memories from citizens. Thus, memory is an important point within the city, people built their relationships with the city through memories, including the objects of the city. As for me, I was producing the invisible space according to my database.
01. The old tree 02.Monstera deliciosa 03.Pteridophyta 04.Bidens pilosa 05. antique well 06. iron fence 07. window 08. wooden door
13. telephone 14. diner chair 15. diner chair 16. toilet 19. spring couplet 21. tea cup
11. shoes shelf
23. helmet
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
HOW TO BUILD AN UTOPIA THE UNIT SCAFFOLD:The assistent of construction. It's obtain strong temporary and metaphor of changing. To compare the extinctive old memories and the advence constructions and technology.
the heart is; one can build his utopia by his thought, and vice versa. Therefore, I built a 3D matrix to let people produce a utopia based on their memories and experiences. This 3D matrix built-in many units of the scaffold (200 x 75 x 170cm). To build a better world, the scaffold is usually used to support the construction, it also represents city codes, something is going to happen here, to gather people's memory and stories here.
representation
SCAFFOLD +3.4 m At this height, people can look through the village to compare the outside city and this old inhabitat.
CORD YARD +0.0 m The old well. In the past, residants used to hang out near the well. The open space is as a living space.
SCAFFOLD
WOODEN DECK
+1.7 m Provided a vertical axis. Scaffold as a urban code represent a temporary stituation in the city.
+0.1 m The surface of the old time living space.
REMAINS HOUSE +0.3 m The building which plants lived in.
NEIGHBOR +0.3 m One of the residant that still live in the village.
ANTIQUE ELEMENTS
MATRIX +0.0 m The matrix is the order of the space. It cearly controled and defined threeaxes coordinate system.
+0.0 m These antiques own by the old inhabitants.In 2014, I picked up those remains which were leave in 1999, as I traveled back in time.
2014.YEAR 4/ Option Studio Project
RECORDING THE TRACE In the matrix, people can use different tape to shape the imagination of space. That is, I tried to record people's memories by these interweaving lines. This was a temporary installation space to defense those renewal planning. In this period, neighbors recalled the memory and reconnected because of this interaction.
representation
Mr. Lin Old Neighbor / 72y
Ms. Li Professor / 45y
Mr. Tsai Architectural Student / 21y
Mr. Wang Media Studies Student / 30y
We held a movie festival to invite neighbors to recall those good old times together. The event allows us to gather more locals and encourage people to see the value of their memories which was gradually fading away. People should treasure their memories of the sense of belonging.
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1. People sat on the installation enjoying the old memory of Da Guang Yuan on movie festival. 2. The trace of personal utopia. 3. The presentation of the studio with my partner Duo-Li Lin.
APPENDIX/
APPENDIX _concept / practice 01.BOOK DESIGN/ EDITING Modern Architecture and Transplanted Modernity in Postwar Taiwan /PROJECT MANAGER/2021/
concept / practice
02.PROFESSIONAL WORK 3RD ADA AWARDS /PROJECT MANAGER/2016/
In 2016, I had an internship with prize-winning group, Harmonious Architects & Planners. I had the honour of curating the exhibition of the 3rd ADA Awards for Emerging Architects, a prestigious competition of young architects in Taiwan. I had a great opportunity tto learn and share di erent discipline of creating process with the participants in person. It was a dynamic, explorative exhibition.