Second Life or the Art of Recurrence

• Main Authors: Tsung-Tao Yin, 鄞宗道
• Other Authors: Ming-Hung Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23460938605915627324

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 建築學系碩博士班 === 97 === This thesis discusses about the attitudes toward utilizing existing substances, arguing that " The materials do not specify its own destiny." Explicitly, the word "second life" means next life. A life devotes itself to making unprecedented value. However, it is on the user rather than the substance itself to decide how much value will be made. Therefore, as long as there is a user, the recurrence of lives going on shall be unlimited. Every things came to being at certain space-time with specifi c opportunities. But this is not the end. Our society defi nes the substance to be the first/ the second, otherwise useful/ useless. Waste is conceived as something that we don't know how to use. The notion invites reciprocal thinking: there is no such thing as waste as long as we do know how to use it, which leads to another beginning. Materials do not delimit their forms and meaning themselves. They appear differently under different circumstances. The water, sometimes appears as clouds in the sky and other times it turns into falling rain. Therefore, from small things such as utensils, to large scale of architecture even the built environment are no longer flat nor simple anymore, rather, they implies a world of wrinkles with abundant variety. In this study, glass bottles, tree branches, soils, rotten wood, stems and leaves of the betel nut tree are being selected to be the foundamental substances for architectural construction. And yet meditate the relationship between architecture and the land, proposing a concept of co-existence and active system.