Beyond Commemoration : Architecture as an Urban Liminal Field

Idea projektu

Interrogating architectural ontology through the extreme landscape of urban overwriting: an overwritten field, a dormant field, and a liminal field. This terrain unearths the slow-mutating operational system of the city. Taking Tainan, Taiwan as a spatial sample, the urban fabric is overwritten through specific mechanisms: the curatorial, the iconized, and the commodified. Each act of overwriting induces a corresponding erasure. This accumulation of disappearance causes the act of commemoration to overflow, sedimenting into a purely
geological phenomenon.

Popis projektu

Beyond Commemoration constructs an endless architectural exterior that ceases to act as a protective entity or a bulwark against time. Here, architecture is redefined as a liminal state void of definition—no longer a physical container, but existing as a pure thought, and as a prototype that has never truly appeared.

Technické informace

The massive infrastructure defines a four-tiered structure: the first tier is the New Street, a place where history is laid bare; the second tier is an economic library built of reinforced concrete; the third tier is a market formed by trusses and weather-resistant steel; and the fourth tier is a semi-transparent, light-filled amusement park.