Seven Architectural Artifacts or The Fragmental Continuity

• Main Authors: Ping-hsun Lee, 李秉勳
• Other Authors: Tay-sheng, Jeng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47234484975442898897

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 建築學系碩博士班 === 97 === By making seven architectural artifacts, tower, canopy, pond, stair, gate, bridge and wall, this study attempts to explore some hidden meanings of architecture. Architecture, in the sense of “in-this-world”, is normally sited on ground and subject to the necessity to meeting given constraints, whether are the social or the physical. Such view delimits the possible worlds of architecture. This study set out in search of the metaphysical contents in architecture. The Five-Harbor historical area of Tainan was chosen for this investigation. The Five-Harbor historical area is a remarkable palimpsest. During Japanese occupation the urban baroque systems was imposed on the city’s original organic context and thus resulted urban tissue fragments. These fragments are de-contexted from “this-world” and thus become the body of “other-world”, which bear the character of enigma that qualify to be the proper material for building metaphysical architecture.