Lost in Mystopia
The Structure of The Context
Creating an image of the city
When Italo Calvino describes the city, he thinks that the city is composed of many invisible structures, which are both universal and subjective. Reviewing Taiwan's unique post-war urban development, this project uses hyper-real models and a series of virtual images to investigate the dynamic balance between large-scale urban structures and small-scale ordinary people's lives.
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2020
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Collaborative International Competition
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-Director's Choice Award, ARCH OUT LOUD: Render of the Year 2020
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Taiwan
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Wang Zhi-Ray, Lee Hao, Song Meng-Xun, Yeh Yen-Ting
Palimpsest Urbanism: The Pattern of Streetscape
When residents actively add a street with signs, objects, etc.., those anonymous buildings no longer tell about the works of specific designers but refer to the natural state of a place's operation, the proof that a city is continuously evolving and metabolizing itself.
Parallel City: Re-imagine the Ordinary Context
The urban system is based on testing the adaptability of Taiwanese cities' structural form, proposes a hypothetical model of an ordinary parallel environment, and challenges the dual relationship between the structure and infill of the context.
The Image of Taiwanese City
Although we do not know where this city was located and when it was built, we understand that it came from a distant Asian island nation—drifting alone somewhere on the continent's edge.
