| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 建築學系 === 96 === Changshan Bridge, built under Japanese Colonization, in Taipei has been dismantled into rubble. The remains stood beside the former waterfront for further reconstruction, which is part of Taipei City Government's project. However, the seeming reminiscence of the history turns out to be void. The bridge itself may be restored with chemical anchors, but memories of the bridge may have been eroded.
This thesis centers on the issue with reverse method in the design process. Compared with traditional methods dealing with events in their time-space context, the result and transferred place will directly be examined as the basis of deduction and development.
My design will focus on the fractured facts on the site: the disassembled bridge, broken interfaces, separation of people from waterfront, and disordered chronology of city events rather than on the compensation for the existing mistakes. Among concrete remains, a new bridge was erected and immerse then. However, it will not conjure up the past memories. Embankment will stand as before; the river will still be far from the former waterfront. Connection and Continuation can be reached in a very different way as a bridge can be a place besides a crossing path.
In this new design, the inner space of the bridge will display things we keep but avoid talking about again: gifts from ex-boyfriends, receipts from crazy shopping, failed thesis design, or city project models which may never be built. People will experience the section of the waterfront here and dive into huge concrete remains without really seeing them before stepping out.
The motif of this project is designing afterwards, letting bygones be bygones and developing from surrealism and collage method in design process. The attributes of event space are also evaluated in this thesis and made into real world rather than past memories to seek more possibilities and interpretation.
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