Curating & Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2019 - Yi Chun Huang

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P O R T FO L I O CURATING & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

IVY. YI-CHUN HUANG

CURATING & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

CURATING & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

P O R T F O L I O IVY Y I - C H U N

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CONTENT Self Introduction

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Curatorial Project

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London Design Festival / 2018 Reconsidering Canon in collaboration with Gallery FUMI & Design Museum

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Green Ripples Festival / 2016 Everyday Art Shop

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1st Landscape Architecture Students' Thesis Design Exhibition in Taiwan / 2015 Infinity FJU23 x THU30

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Landscape Architecture

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Graduation Design Project / 2015 Do As The Natives Do: The Planning of Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village

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Work Exchange Project / 2015 Toucheng Leisure Farm: Rose Sofas, Camellia Tables, Camellia Hut)

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黃 意 淳 HUANG YI CHUN 2017 - 2018

Kingston University London, UK

Master of Arts Curating Contemporary Design Kingston School of Art in partnership with the Design Museum 2011 - 2015

Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Bachelor of Fine Arts Department of Landscape Architecture

I am a creative, artistic and ambitious Emerging Curator with a talent for coming up with innovative ideas and designs. I graduated with a Master of Arts Curating Contemporary Design in partnership with the Design Museum, London from Kingston University.

During studying at Kingston University and the Design Museum, it provided a chance for me a practical approach to problem-solving and a drive to see things through to completion with a clear and logical mind. Nothing can deter my ambition to develop in-depth knowledge in the field of curating. I am seeing a position in which I can put into practice my knowledge and experience, ultimately benefiting the operations of the organisation that I work for.

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SELF INTRODUCTION

SEP 2017 - SEP 2018 / UK 2018 London Design Festival: “Reconsidering Canon� in collaboration with Gallery FUMI & Design Museum

Emerging Curator (3D Design Group) -

Researching selected objects and topics which are regarding design canon.

Presenting and negotiating proposals to invited designers from Gallery FUMI to respond.

Negotiating and meeting with Gallery FUMI and related curatorial teams of the Design Museum.

Constructing 3D SketchUp models and designing the display areas.

Making and building the exhibition stalls by student curators

NOV 2016 - MAY 2017 / Taiwan Eslite Bookstore

Librarian assistant

JUL 2016 - AUG 2016 / Taiwan EVERYDAY ART Student Art Shop in Park Lane by CMP

Part-time Worker -

Creating the stage for Taiwanese art and design college student to promote their artworks.

Exhibition design and construction.

Student artwork introduction guide.

Packing and selling student artworks.

SEP 2014 - JUN 2015 / Taiwan Fu Jen Catholic University Department of Landscape Architecture

23rd Graduate Association Curating Group Leader -

Developing the exhibition concept and other design details.

Negotiating and meeting in collaborating with another partnership school.

Allocating areas for the theme and personal display stalls.

Exhibition area workplace overseer and construction.

JAN 2015 - FEB 2015 / Taiwan Toucheng Leisure Farm

Intern

- Work exchange on the farm to gain practical experience.

- Designing and constructing wall paintings, outdoor furniture with Mosaic patterns.

OCT 2013, OCT 2014 / Taiwan Student Recital in Fu Jen Catholic University Music Department

Graphic Designer

- Pei-Yi Liu Violin Recital 2013 - Shu-Ting Liu Cello Recital 2014 JUL 2013, AUG 2014 / Taiwan Creative Dimension Construction and Engineering Consulting INC.

Intern -

Experience about the internship course. (Practice In Landscape) Document processing and collating working drawings.

Field investigation and measurement.

Drawing the detail design.

Studying sketches and 3D building software.

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2 0 1 8 LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL

RECONSIDERING CANON

in collaboration with Gallery FUMI & Design Museum Canon -- noun.

(1) A general law, rule, principle or criterion by which something is judged.

(2) The list of works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality.

(3) A piece in which the same melody is begun in different parts successively, so that the imitations overlap.

-- Oxford English Dictionary

15 Sep - 23 Sep 2018 Design Museum, London, UK

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The exhibition Re-Considering Canon is the result of a year-long research project

by MA Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston School of Art and the Design Museum. The project shows how selecting and collecting in museums are part of the process of understanding current creative practice, as a reaction to the world around us and as a way to write history. Following decades of questioning, critiquing and rejecting the institutional canon as an instrument of power, the project reconsiders the relevance of canonisation today. It interrogates the structures and mechanisms, the decision makers and their intentions, the benefactors, and equally those forgotten or rejected.

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CONCEPT Design canon can be described as the history of design told through the practice of selecting and interpreting by curators. The objects that form the design canon are often considered outstanding examples of design with an enduring influence on society and culture.

As with the overlapping repetition in a musical canon, designers often revisit examples of the design canon, build on the past or consciously reject it. An expressed rejection is still a response and illustrates the power of the canon.

As a way of questioning the contemporary relevance of design canon in the practice of designers, the MA curating students, in collaboration with Gallery FUMI, invited nine designers to create new works responding to a selection of canonical objects. The range of responses demonstrates how designers are influenced by, and expand on design history.

Curators are creating new canons from the ever-widening body of contemporary work, telling stories hitherto untold, and reflecting the changing structures and systems, attitudes and values of society. The MA students interviewed twenty international curators to explore the changing approaches to design canon and the selection criteria for writing tomorrow's design history.

The guiding questions in the student's research process were: how are designers shaping tomorrow's world and what are the methods of curators to capture this practice?

Who is taking part in this process and has the power to decide? In a diverse and complex world, can we still refer to a single canon or should we consider multiple canons that influence each other?

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In addition to a theoretical exploration of these questions, the collaboration with Gallery FUMI allowed an invaluable direct engagement with current practice by embarking on a commissioning process with nine designers. The new work produced for the exhibition addresses the relevance of design history or canon for contemporary practice, as well as its borders and fields of influence. The designers relate to and query the criteria for selection, not only by museums but also by the commercial market and the manufacturing industry. The question of selection criteria was also posed to a large number of international design curators whose responses highlight the relevance canonisation but equally show an unease, and even rejection, of an institutionalised canon. The exhibition emphasises the need to consider the plurality of canons in a continuous process of revision, extension and diversification.

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2 0 1 6 GREEN RIPPLES FESTIVAL

EVERYDAY ART SHOP CMP PUJEN Foundation for Arts and Culture creates an art platform for college students who study in the field of art and design in Taiwan and makes them be emerging artists. EVERYDAY ART Student Art Shop (EDA) is a limited project every summer and has promoted artworks of these young artists since 2013.

For students, the purposes of attending EDA campaign are increasing their expression abilities through artworks and accumulating their marketing experience of art. On the other hand, during this art project, they can also more attract hidden collectors' attention to extend their art careers in the future.

EDA brings both beautiful original works of Taiwanese students and sharing some stories hidden behind these works. Furthermore, it supports and looks forward to students to keep on creating more and more artworks. This art project hopes to bring art into common life experience and give the public a chance to buy charming artworks.

15 JUL - 21 AUG 2016 Park Lane by CMP, Taichung City, Taiwan

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C O N C E P T Art could be in any kind of forms and things existing everywhere in our daily life.

In 2016, Everyday Art Shop was in collaborated with Sen-Yung, Liu, who is one of the botanical artists in 4th CMP Creative Lab Village. They linked artworks and plants together that creating a space made art get closer to our life. The atmosphere was full of vitality and gentle in the whole exhibition area. Thus, the exhibition theme was named as "ART PLANTED TOGETHER".

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Installation : 11 JUL - 14 JUL 2016 Dismantling : 22 AUG - 23 AUG 2016

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(1) Collage graffiti wall (2) Public Programme: Student artists shared their creative process and experience.

(3) Staffs wrapped EDA unique art parcel for collectors.

(4) + (5) The audiences browsed students' artworks in the Everyday Art Shop.

(6) Daily guided tour for the audiences.

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2 0 1 5 1st L A N D S C A P E A R C H I T E C T U R E S T U D E N T S' T H E S I S D E S I G N E X H I B I T I O N I N T A I W A N

I N F I N I T Y F J U 23 X T H U 30 Normally, the schools would hold a graduation exhibition to display art and design students' artworks before the graduation ceremony in Taiwan. In the field of landscape architecture, student exhibition shows both professional training results while in the study and some viewpoints of new environmental topics. The drawings and models display efforts in four-years studying at school and present their growth in multi teaching.

Landscape Architecture Students Thesis Design Exhibition in Taiwan aimed to expect people to pay more attention to environmental and landscape issues and find out balance interactions between human and environment. However, it was the first time to hold a landscape architecture exhibition in collaborating with 10 universities in Taiwan.

Luckily, I was elected as a curating group leader and an exhibition construction supervisor in 23rd Graduate Association of the department. Besides, we also had another collaborative partner, Tunghai University. Thus, two schools worked together to plan the whole exhibition concept, graphics and 3D design and details.

05 JUN - 09 JUN 2015 Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei City, Taiwan

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C O N C E P T Environment is a changing process to construct landscape. The core value discusses environmental texture is sustainable, unlimited, and circulars from the past to the future.

Fu Jen Catholic University and Tunghai University used “INFINITY” as the theme to deconstruct landscape architecture, such as using different perspectives to think about the progressive significance of a circle. After interweaving the circle area, it tried to practice the value of landscape and emphasized the core value of the landscape of Infinity. They tried to visualize a way to explore deeper explanation and showed the diversity and vitality of the landscape.

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ENTRANCE IMAGE

INFO DESK

Multifunction Performance Space

ECOLOGICAL GREEN WALL

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WATERFRONT

ECOLOGY

HUMANITY

UBRAN

ENTRANCE WATERFRONT ECOLOGY

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CITY BLOCKS

PERSONAL DISPLAY STALL

URBAN HUMANITY

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[ Detail designs of exhibition area ]

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Entrance image Ecological green wall Information desk City blocks Multifunction performance space Personal display stall

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[ Installation Process ]

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(1) Whole exhibition area (2) Personal display stall (3) Information desk (4) + (5) Ecological green wall

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2 0 1 5 GRADUATION DESIGN PROJECT

DO AS THE NATIVES DO The Planning of Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village

In the decades, the tendency of tourism mode becomes more and more commercialized in Lukang. Merchants consumed local features without restraint. In addition, the government did not raise any useful strategies to protect cultural resources. Consequently, Lukang was sort of sustainable planning so that cultural resources faded away gradually. “The Planning of Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village” discussed how to solve these problems and find some potential resources to renew the image of Lukang.

The position of “The Planning of Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village” would introduce the concept of a living museum. For the purpose of transforming local cultural potentials, we hope tourists to experience the local lives and enjoy as locals in Lukang. Enjoying different ways to experience Lukang, and hope the visitors could take Lukang as their second hometown.

Designers: HSU, YEN-YUN / HUANG, YI-CHUN Supervisor Professor: LIN, JIANN-CHERNG

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Site Location: Lukang Historic Reservation & Peripheral Region

Taiwan (Asia)

Lukang Township, Changhua County

FIRST SECCTION

Thinking Flow Chart of Graduation Design Project The Planning of Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village Current Situatioin of Tourism

Living Museum

Origion

Potential Resources

Issue

Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village

THIRD SECCTION

SECOND SECCTION

Case Study

Main Atmosphere

Set Scenes

Transform & Use Potential Cultural Resources

Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village 1) Maintain The Traditional Form 2) Continue The Experience of The Historical Places 3) Present The Local Life

Space Design

Features Connection Living Streets Space Nodes

Activity Design

Make Atmosphere (Background) Plan Tourism Experience

Sell Method

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Create Unique Image & Plan The Tourism in Lukang

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ORIGIN [ Historical Position & Environment Transforming ] FISHERY Local residents relied on fishing for living.

The first fishery trading company opened in Lukang in 1745.

COMMERCIAL TRADE Qing dynasty opened Lukang as an official trading port in 1784.

In the following years, the dock region tended to overdeveloped, some local merchants built the most popular shop street which paralleled to the dock. However, from 1851 to 1872, because of the silt, the shipping could not enter that the trading port fell off.

TOURISM "Lukang and Fuxing Urban Planning" put some important historical sites into Lukang Historical Reservation in 1971. Then, in 1986, some parts of Lukang Historical Reservation were allowed to use for business. Thus, Lukang tourism business started to flourish.

THE CONCEPT OF LIVING MUSEUM Pragmatic Slow

Human Interaction

HOW TO MAKE THE TOURISM MORE LIVABLE ‧Straighten the development of tourism: Experience the slow life for primary and the sightseeing for secondary.

Theme : Transform the consuming tourism into experience the local life. ‧Link the potential features and local residents' livelihood.

Scene : Connect the resource groups and life environments to create the special stories.

LIVE

Life Style & Tempo

‧All the town is a living museum.

Role : Let tourists experience the livelihood in Lukang and to be a local resident.

ACTIVITY

Local Experience

Space

All The Town Is Your Museum

Long Stay Village

‧Conform the potential features and create the unique image.

Tourism activity : Restart to see the whole Lukang form different views.

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TRADITIONAL SPACES

RELIGION & CELEBRATION

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UNIQUE CULT

TURAL RESOURCES

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ARTS & CRAFTS Although there are plenty of cultural assets, arts and crafts in Lukang, they are not completeness and sort of systematic planning. As a result, the abundance of potential resources falls into oblivion.

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PLANNING DESIGN RANGE & STRATEGY ·Maintain The Traditional Form 3 PATHS TO FOLLOW: ·Continue The Experience of The Historical Places To practice "Living Museum in Lukang Historical Village" ·Present The Local Life A & B "Maintain The Traditional Form" BLOCK "Present The Local Life"

Space Design: Between arcade and sidewalk To let tourists know more about the cultural resources in Lukang, it would try to add some activities to attract people to slow their pace.

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Find the most potential field as design range and try to promote the atmosphere in Lukang to change the current mode of tourism.

C BLOCK "Present The Local Life"

Space Design: Space nodes To increase more activities experience, we make the connection between the main road and historical reservation to continue the special space experience.

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PRACTICE THE CONCEPT OF LIVING MUSEUM DISTRIBUTE THE RESOURCES: Connect the potential resource groups

ARTS & CULTURE

LOCAL INDUSTRY

FEATURE CRAFTS

LOCAL SPOTS

RELIGION

Each potential group has a theme. To let tourists know the more unique culture in Lukang, we provide a systematic introduction. According to the time and interest, people can have different routes to enjoy the journey in Lukang.

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Resource Route Connection Diagram 33

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SPACE DESIGN : STREET MODEL EXAMPLE For the purpose of practising the concept of the living museum, we use different ways to design the sidewalks on the Zhongshan Rd. and Lukang Historical Reservation.

[ A BLOCK ] : ZHONGSHAN ROAD Design Concept After

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Arcade

Driveway

Arcade

Arcade

Driveway

Arcade

Street Life

Street Life

(1) Both sides of sewers divide between arcade and driveway.

(2) The original straight road is too straight so that pedestrians and cars pass through quickly.

(1) Move the sewers to the middle of road to eliminate the bounds between arcade and driveway.

(2) Set up some street furniture and plant trees between arcade and driveway to slow down the pedestrians and cars.

Introduction Elements

Display Window Museum & Interaction

Street Model

Red Roof Corridor

To let tourists slow down and know more about the features of traditional industry, we preserve or add the display window for the local stores. In addition, we plan to close the distance between door and arcade to attract tourists. Furthermore, so as to interact with local residents, add the corridor can realize potential characteristics regarding conventional architecture.

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Zhongshan Rd. Street Model Example Plan

中藥行

餅舖

住家 工藝坊

LONG STAY 生活家

布莊

住家

茶行

Zhongshan Rd. Street Model Example Section

Traditional Store

Display Window

Arcade

Sidewalk

Pedestrian Space

Driveway

sewer

Stree Life

Driveway

Sidewalk

Arcade

Pedestrian Space

Traditional Store

Display Window

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[ B BLOCK ] : LUKANG HISTORICAL RESERVATION Design Concept Before

There is a lack of area for tourists to stay and rest so that people do not have a chance to interact with local residents.

Traditional Building

Sidewalk

Traditional Building

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Add some local characteristic street furniture and plants to promote the experience with a traditional atmosphere.

Traditional Building

Sidewalk

Traditional Building

Street Model

Deer Bench (Use 5 colors to distinguish different route.)

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Lukang Historical Reservation Model Example Plan

Lukang Historical Reservation Model Example Section

First Floor : Store Second Floor : Long Stay Home

Street Life

First Floor : Store Second Floor : Long Stay Home

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(1) Whole display models of graduation design project.

(2) + (3) + (4) Zhongshan Rd. Street model example section.

(5) Living museum practice conceptual model.

(6) Site location model of Lukang Historic Reservation & Peripheral Region.

(7) Preparing for the final presentation of graduation design project.

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2 0 1 5 WORK EXCHANGE PROJECT

TOUCHENG LEISURE FARM The owners of Toucheng Leisure Farm wish that student artists can pour new ideas to make more art atmosphere around the traditional tourism farm. So, every year, they provide "work exchange" chances for senior students who study in the Department of Landscape Architecture in Fu Jen Catholic University.

In 2015, by introducing from my graduation design project supervisor professor, I was one of the students in this art project team for a month staying at the Toucheng Leisure Farm. The primary job worked for creating new art life for the visitors who would visit the farm such as designing and constructing wall paintings, outdoor landscape garden and furniture with Mosaic patterns and so on.

The purpose of this work exchange project was a chance for students to accumulate practical experience. Also, during this project, students could make their artworks come true instead of drawing their design on papers only.

J A N - F E B 2015 Toucheng Leisure Farm, Yilan County, Taiwan

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ROSE SOFAS 130.0 x 80.0 x 90.0 cm / 2015 Concrete furniture

There are hundreds of roses surrounded by the sofas. It seems to tell the travellers that it is time to have a wandering journey.

Rose sofas are located at the entrance of Toucheng Leisure Farm. They were designed by my classmates and me in February 2015. Because of having less working time, I worked as a workplace overseer and some parts of Rose Sofas were built by the workers.

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Designer: HUANG, YI-CHUN Assembling Mosaic: LEE, YUN-CHIH / LO, HUI-WEN / HSU, YEN-YUN / HUANG, HSIAO-YA / HUANG, YI-CHUN / WANG, TZU-CHI

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(1) Use the slabs and steels to assemble the frame of sofa.

(2) Seal the frame.

(3) Put the concrete into frame to set up the pedestal.

(4) Pile up the bricks around the pedestal and make the shape like a sofa.

(5) Shape like a sofa. (Armrest part) (6) Shape like a sofa. (Leg-room)

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(7) Pile up the bricks around the pedestal and make the shape like a sofa.

(8) Shape like a sofa. (Armrest part) (9) Shape like a sofa. (Leg-room part) (10) Sketch the rose outlines on the sofa.

(11) Put the mosaic roses and leaves on the sofa. Then, use little pink stones and white concrete as the base color of sofa.

(12) "Rose Sofas" have finished.

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CAMELLIA TABLES 100.0 x 100.0 x 80.0 cm / 2015 Concrete furniture

Camellia Tables with mosaic.

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Designer: LEE, YUN-CHIH Assembling Mosaic: LEE, YUN-CHIH / LO, HUI-WEN / HSU, YEN-YUN / HUANG, HSIAO-YA / HUANG, YI-CHUN / WANG, TZU-CHI

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(1) Fragment the tiles.

(2) Assemble the fragments as the pattern of camellia. (Tabletop Part 1) (3) Assemble the fragments as the pattern of camellia. (Tabletop Part 2) (4) Assemble the fragments as the pattern of camellia. (Tabletop Part 3) (5) Assemble the patterns on the chair. (Part 1) (6) Assemble the patterns on the chair. (Part 2)

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(7) Stir the concrete and start to put the pattern of tabletop (mosaic camellia) on the table.

(8) Get rid of the paper on the mosaic camellia.

(9) Use some fragments to patch the gap of the mosaic camellia.

(10) Fill up the concrete on the gap of mosaic camellia again.

(11) Use little pink stones and white concrete as the base color of chairs.

(12) "Camellia Tables" has finished.

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CAMELLIA HUT 330.0 x 320.0 cm / 2015 Painted design

The new life of metal hut - Camellia House.

Designer: LEE, YUN-CHIH Assembling Mosaic: LEE, YUN-CHIH / HSU, YEN-YUN / HUANG, HSIAO-YA / HUANG, YI-CHUN / WANG, TZU-CHI

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