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how to live again in progress

Almost three months have passed for diploma semester, and the project is getting hard. The territory which is an extremely ordinary pubic housing block in hong kong offers us with unlimited local residential traces and identity, but also large restrictions of the existing spatial arrangement and structural integrity.

We attempted to attack the construction with the idea of 'offering': what is the construction longing for, and what are the people searching for, together with the mountain climbing experience and implosion of home territory, we tried to discuss the relation among human behaviors, high man-made structure and the essence of nature.

Though it's getting tiring to 'move' around within the structure in our imagination, we believe the project has a high value of stimulation especially in such a high-density and machine-like city. Now we just have to trust what is already there and the offer of the construction, and let's hope the outcome could be an initiation of our awareness on how we live today.

per 仔

dear cute per olaf got honorary doctorate from the royal danish academy of fine arts ;)

resistance

so lebbeus woods seems to be a lot earlier than us in this age who thought of the relationship between architecture and resistance, but of course there were kenneth frampton or christian norberg schulz...... or whoever experienced something that one must resist, in order to protect our cultural continuation and next generations.

'instead of thinking themselves as resisters..... rather we must create an independent idea of both architecture and the world...'

if we want to resist the monolithic living behaviors, resist the evil developers, resist the idea of speechless acceptance on everything.... we shall all together build up a new idea of us and nature, if possible through the strength of architecture.

3hours production #01

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200 sqm
30,000 usd

2010 autumn
B3_in search of place and construction

photography in practice

the course ended with the discussion with per olaf and dagur eggertson

i believe this would be a very special practice in our architectural education

besides, each of us got a book from pavlina which will lead to our permanent memory on the course

beginning: the making of spatial artefact

Høstfest 2010

last night the school turned into a pub again

the second marathon review ended today.

the construction is coming through the investigation, or maybe it's more suitable to call it personal reflection from oneself. it's not about anything outside but within one's emotion and interpretation.

'if there is something you would really like to go for,

do it and we will all agree later'

this is a studio which does not only in search of place and construction,

but what you truly are.

so did the dialogue between the territory and ourselves begin?

concrete fun

how fun it would be if we are able to work in a concrete factory, test on whatever we like and just have fun

can this kind of idea survive at last?

territory

so after two weeks of the spiritual studio, maybe we should start to define the territory a bit more. i tried to look up 'territory' in the wikipedia. some interesting information comes up with simple illustration, but in-depth philosophical inspiration about territoriality.



According to author Julia T. Wood, "men go into women's spaces more than women enter men's spaces" (Wood 2007, p. 144). With this in mind, we can understand that men typically have a stronger sense of ownership and are more likely to challenge others' boundaries. People respond to invasion of territory in different ways depending on what their comfort norms are. Wood (2007) presents three common responses:

1. When someone moves too close for comfort, you might step away, giving up your territory. This reaction is typical of feminine people.
2. When people have to fit into close spaces, they often look down as a submissive way of showing that they are not trying to invade others' territories.
3. When someone moves too close, you might refuse to give up your territory. This reaction is typical of masculine people.

as per olaf said 'it does not need us', the territory can be constantly changing and it requires nobody, 'but it made us active and reactive'.

power of nature

The Discovery of a new Territory. In search for Place.

so it's going to be a spiritual semester.

in search for place, and hopefully in search of ourselves.

Fuan Tea House, Kengo Kuma

another step.

Wood Pavilion / Wing Yi Hui + Lap Ming Wong

a step to happiness.

wood morphogenesis in dezeen

pavilion

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