Fairy Tales Dept. Store

Fairy Tales Dept. Store

Down the Rabbit Hole / Spatial Journey of Self-Projection

童話百貨

“Fairy tales” are the reading material of everyone’s childhood. We learned and explored in those stories. As the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious (Marie-Louise Von Franz), everyone in modern society is playing the role that has long since ended. As the “archetype” of story, simply tells us that life is such a cliché!

Then, why are fairy tales so important to human beings and how can I react in the architectural spaces?

Instructor: Sheng-Ming,Wu

2021.07-2022.06

TKUA Thesis Design

Preface.

When I was a child, I couldn’t wait to grow up.But when I grew up, I realized that the simple “happiness and joy” of my childhood did not come easily.Nowadays, we pursue the “meaning” and “benefit” of things. We used to quantify our happiness in terms of value, forgetting that the spiritual satisfaction of our childhood came only from many “insignificant experiences”. So I’m wondering: How can space achieve this kind of satisfaction?

長大後，才發現兒時單純的「幸福快樂」來之不易。現 今，我們追求事物的「意義」與「效益」，付出能帶給我 們多少附加價值。我們的快樂開始被價值量化，卻忘了兒 時的心靈滿足，僅僅來自於一次又一次「微不足道」的體 驗。究竟空間要如何才能達成本質上的滿足?

Back to our daily, some said: “Each person’s life is a great literature, pure & repetitive, just like a fairy tale”. Always in trouble, and solve it, then live happily ever after. Fairy tales are such a cliché, so do our life. According to Jungianism,fairy tales are the collection of human mind’s journey,and everyone in modern society is playing the role that has long since ended.

Down the Rabbit Hole ... Dilemma

Today, we used to give space program and purpose, try to make it functional and commercial.But ignoring the essential satisfaction that space itself can bring to people, which is to discover the tiny little experiences around life.Therefore, my design attempts to create those “insignificant experiences” in architecture by interpretation of fairy tales.

今日，我們習慣賦予空間應有的機能及用途，意圖讓空 間功能化、商業化，卻忽略了空間本身能帶給人本質上的滿 足，是發現生活周遭細微的感知體驗以及心靈層面的實際用 途。因此，本設計試圖從現代性城市的困境出發，運用童話 萬物都有感知的本身，在建築中發現一次又一次微不足道的 體驗。

Site. Philosophy / Fairy Tales Dept. Store

Fairytales’ Anatomy & Interpretation.

I read lots of fairy tales, including Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and other famous fairy stories .Selected *six of those to anatomize. Through analysis I found that, the most important feature of fairy tales comes from “self-projection”. Without the limitation of time, space, and history. We can easily project ourselves into the journey.

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After that, I interpreted those stories into space experiences by *natural elements and grouped them together. Dept. store is a great complex, while “Fairy tales Dept. Store” is a collection of self-projection into the experiences through the interpretation of fairy tales. When the space is free from function and meaning, each space returns to the experience, the function becomes a “verb”, not a “ pronoun” . Through the self-projection, everyone in this journey becomes the character of the fairy tales. I think fairy tales have such romantic and ethereal qualities.

Light: Pea’s Bookstore+Thumbelina’s Gallery/ Hans Christian Andersen’s “Five Peas” depicts the process of ripening peas, and the subtle changes in light are felt through the slit, as the pods slowly open and the sunlight flickers out. I imagine that everyone who enters the bookstore is like a “pea” in the pod, beginning to experience the journey of light. In “Thumbelina”, I followed the gopher through the underground, and in this gallery, what kind of sky will be seen in that experience?

Temp.:Pinocchio’s Pool+Coin’s Pond/ When the puppet falls into the whale’s belly in “Pinocchio”, a ray of light in the darkness and humidity, everything in the fairy tale has temperature and perception.The adventure of “A Silver Coin” coin, feel the subtle temperature changes, and become a coin in the pool!

Green.Sound:Jack’s Green Gallery+Wind’s Cafe/ “Jack and the Beanstalk” steals happiness by climbing the magic tree. I imagine that people who come here project themselves as Jack, what can they steal by climbing in the woods? The wind blows through a wheat field, cracks and holes in the wall, and the open gates of the city. Is it true that when we close our eyes and listen to the sound we can know the contours and shapes of our surroundings?

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In this journey,

You are both a “ pea ” and “ Thumbelina ” in Hans Christian Andersen’s writing. When you arrive at the other side of the street, you turn into “ Jack ”, who climbs on the magic bean. Suddenly you fall into the belly of a whale like “ Pinocchio ”. And a silver “ coin ” to feel the warmth and cold. Finally you transform into the “ wind ” in the woods.

project ourselves into this journey, each experience without seeking meaning. Simply explore and discover the tiny little moments. Through continuous repetition in my design, we can easily find childhood innocence and happiness in those insignificant experiences.

T h u m b e l i n a ’ s

the Beanstalk Green Gallery

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