Condolences to The Nature

Project type: Academic | Bachelor thesis | Individual work

Location: Hualian, Taiwan

Semester: 7,8

Year: Sep. 2017- May. 2018

Supervisor: Wen-Yuan Peng, press@yuanarch.com

In recent years, the excessive flood of driftwood creates many problems that affect the environment, fishery, and ship transportation. After being dredged out by the government, better quality driftwood is being sold out and the other one is crushed and processed into some woods which is a basic material to light fire. In my opinion, that's a pity. There must be another way to deal with those driftwoods which is more meaningful.

After sculpturing by the river, the drifting woods have various distinguishing features. They can be classified by species, weight, shape or length, etc. It is important to realize that these natural resources shouldn't be destroyed by human beings. The goal of the design is: “To use driftwood to record nature, thus to use nature to metabolize driftwood."

I design a landscape of driftwood to let visitors experience the various driftwood views thus realize how much damage humans cause to trees as they walk through it. To preserve the river bank's ecological life, at the same time solving the aforesaid issue, I designed a non-profit organized system to manage the leftover driftwood. This design is known as the driftwood disposal area. The existence of the driftwood disposal area will hopefully clear up the driftwood within the Hua-Lian stream that is directly connected to the ocean once every year. There are five stages of driftwoods disposal process: salvaging, surveying and marking, washing, drying in the shade, and processing. This inspired me to create five continuous rituals of condolences: gazing, recalling, reflecting, feeling guilty, and reincarnation.

The program is designed to make visitors reflect as they experiencing the linear spaces. Using the unique characteristics that driftwood lapse of time thus creates a time-lapse based constantly changing landscape design. After nature finished the suppressing process of the old driftwoods, the newly salvaged driftwood will come as substitutions. The ability to witness the vanishing driftwood is the constant recording process of nature.

Final model (Without roof)

Details of fnal model

Hinoki Village Wooden Pavilion

Project type: Professional Experience| Group work

(Yin-Ping Fang, Wan-Yu Yang)

Location: Chiayi, Taiwan

Year: 2020 (Completed)

Supervisor: Yin-Ping Fang, adamas.archi@gmail.com

Ali Mountain in Chiayi used to be famous for its rich forest assets, so railways were built here to transport forest assets during the Japanese colonization of Taiwan. Hinoki Village is a dormitory village for Japanese migrant workers, and now it is used as a park to record this history. The design of this pavilion is based on the concept of the convoluted railway track in the mountains, so it has such a roof structure and slope.

Ast Levaton