01. Form of Info

Media Space

ARCH 707 | Instr, Na WEI | Summer 22

Location: Philadelphia. PA

Collaboration With Suwei Wang

Display in ACADIA Exhibition 2022.

The transitional stage from transforming energy to transforming information into the digital age has fundamentally altered humans’ expectations, behaviors, and communication. The digital age impacts human civilization, culture, and the exchange of information, therefore on architectural design. The transformations brought by the digital revolution in the architecture field are numerous and manifold. The use of digital in communication coincided with the emergence of new principles to preserve abandoned buildings and the environment.

The proposal is to transfer space in the building to a new applied platform that keeps pace with the current era. Our research seeks to understand the principles of the abandoned classic building to develop a methodology that can co-exist and interact with the new part created on this site. The project’s approach is renovating part of the abandoned building as a gathering place for communication in the digital age. Preserving one corner of the existing classic building and introducing new elements from our digital age will inspire potential social encounters and interactions. In this way of acupuncture, renovating part of the building will trigger conversations and activate the whole area socially, economically, environmentally, and visually.