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F r a m es o f A ut henti ci ty This gallery is a social experiment to capture the fleeting moments of the passerby in a shophouse’s five-foot walkway. Specatators on the bleachers cannot anticipate when a passerby will appear in their peripheral vision, which heightens their sense of awareness. This shophouse is made of two ‘leaves’ of costus curvibracteatus. The lower leaf forms the bleachers and stairs. The upper leaf twists to form a bench and an elevator. The transition from a rectangular façade in the front to a leaf-like structure responds to the hardscape and softscape and parallels the transformation from pretence to authenticity.
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