The Seven Curiosities of the City

                            

                                            

FRONTIERS

Tangible space, used to contain various functions to provide the platform for city events, is created by visible frontiers. A frontier can be explicit; otherwise it can also be ambiguous, transparent, and even  invisible. My Curiosity lies in exploring how can new forms of frontier transform urban space and its functions, sequentially bring immense reformation to events that happened in the city.

FRAGMENTATION

Origins and culture identity carried by immigrants transit into a deep fragmentation, as they colonize a new life - an instant presence, extreme material conditions and the scale communal life. The fragmentation saw as one form of lost cover their latent desire. However, local planned wasteland existed in a range of unique political and economic context provides concrete space for those desires as a platform.

COMMONS

Spatial hybridization appears as an emergent measure facing contemporary society, however blurs the boundaries between public domain and private space. Those appeal to urgent survival tactic to help those area used by commons. The term “commons” searched as tool with which to transform the latent generic condition of the city into a sphere of collectivity, and take it beyond the ambiguity discourse between public and private space.

INFORMAL

Informal reconstruct from formal after its process of deconstruction. Its physical performance can be the integration of different forms of archetypes and material, can we find its invisible image combining events beyond the reality of people's behave?

MONUMENT

The produce of the monument associated with strong and original forces, including political, religious, deep-rooted memories or organizations in the spatial dimension of urban mechanism and social hierarchy.

Could we explore alternative definition and spatial form to convey origins and cultural identities under those forces, extricating from its huge isolated size and powerful concentrated image to loosely scattered shape and engaged attitude of intervention to citizens’ life?

HETEROTOPIA

A heterotopia is a physical representation or approximation of a utopia, or a parallel space that contains undesirable bodies to make a real utopian space possible. 

ARTIFICAL NATURE

Artificial nature is a new approach towards a new spatial politics by defining an infinite set of structures to organizing the most primitive of existing materials and techniques.