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" In calling our collected works THE CHARGED VOID: ARCHITECTURE, we are thinking of architecture's capacity to charge the sapce around it with an energy which can join up with other energies, influence the nature of things that might come . . . a capacity we can feel and act upon, but cannot necessarily describe or record."

Peter Smithson, 1992

how close are they.

2 feet transition

The boundless has to be contained, captured by the substantial.

Through this meeting, the volatile is released into the space of the room.

At the moment when the man interprets it and engage himself in space with his acts,

a new totality with the nature will then be reconfigured for his being.

Rolf says, alice in the wonderland, mirror in the mirror,

did we acheive that by now?

Unite d’Habitation

“The sun gets in everywhere, as does the air. The garden is paved with red tiles, its walls are hung with ivy and clematis; laurels and other shrubs cluster thickly in large cement pots ; the place is gay with flowers ; this is a real urban garden easy to keep up. There is a table sheltered from the rain where the household can eat ; one can converse or rest in the open.”

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.

architecture and fashion

In 1926 coco chanel announced her 'little black dress' which was described as 'chanel's ford' by Vogue, as if it was the Model T in the fashion field. It was not only about the outstanding style in fashion in the time, but most importantly the desire of liberty that frees people from the constricting lifestyle. However at the same time, it was so personal.

Today, fashion is an everyday life practice for people, while the breakthrough in 1920s was merely mentioned or remembered. It seems the desire of escaping the current construct through understanding humanity or present issues are overwhelmed by visual exaggeration.

It sounds the same to us in architecture circle, or out in the real practice. Since the 50s modernism rules almost everywhere on the earth, even there were groups like Team X who tried to drag the trend back to a way of concerning humanity, or simply lives of individuals. Sadly they did not end with great success. Nowadays in any different magazines or blogs, 'photography architecture' becomes more and more popular, as they can be captured in just a second and the photos are then being published through the excessive information exchange. This is unlike the classic master pieces and undoubtedly many other architecture by unknown architects, where you could get the other layer of experiences by visiting those constructions even after looking at the photos.

Putting everything into clean and white setting becomes one of the most popular or easy ways to handle architecture. By doing this you can ignore the cultural and historical background of the locations and the individuals' uniqueness. They will present the construction as a background that allows people to express themselves with the most efficient way, like most of the pure white gallery space.

For our generations, architecture does not mean only the construction from a ground-zero setting, but also about transforming the existing environment through the adaptation of time. While the excessive materials world and constructional gestures overwhelmed our natural human behavior and fundamental desires, we are blinded by architecture. Minimization maybe one answer, or we should say it's more a comment on the current situation. Subtraction and distortion of familiarity and everyday perception would reduce the unnecessary gestures of life, and the conscious additives of individual behaivors.

Um.. what could actually help a bit on this situation? Maybe this is also something we would like to figure out in the fall.

food and our little work

Diploma

home moved, school began.
again a fresh start after 2 years.

chinese dinner - august 13th

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.