Yu-Shing “Alison” Hsu
CULTURE COLLAGE CHINESE ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA & THE US
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Neighborhood: Chinatown Designers: Yu-Shing “Alison” Hsu Format: Digital Collage
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As more and more Chinese immigrants migrated into northern California, San Francisco Chinatown served as their home away from home, a comfortingly familiar place in an alien land. Chinese started to build their enclave in America. Therefore, I’m interested in the classical style building in Chinatown. There is a wide range of public amenities in Chinatown that built in Chinese classical style. And I found the architecture in there is pretty interesting, because if you take out the sign on the building, I will think they are all look like pagoda. I can’t recognize the use of the building from the exterior of the building itself. And I think the way of building might look like and built because it is actually for attracting the tourist, so they built most of the public amenities in Chinese ancient style. For my project, I’ll show what the Chinatown building look like when it meets in America, and compare with the building in China. According to my survey, Chinatown is interesting, clustered, crowded, traditional, old, influenced, authentic, and colorful. Through the survey, most of people think Chinatown is an old traditional style building neighborhood and it has lots of colorful signage. I collect these elements to create a collage. The idea of my collage is trying to capture the Chinatown’s character, and give people who haven’t
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