- New alliances
As the generation of young architect designers who graduated during the pandemic, we are facing limitations. The lack of fabrication environment, material sampling opportunities, and most importantly not knowing whether future presentation format would be physical or digital have upcycled how we have been trained to approach architecture design completely.
A timely result would be presenting the front and also the back of the house of a production process. Explaining the exchange of a workflow becomes understandable and sometimes even authentic. The fourth wall has already been broken by designers and audiences sharing the same acknowledge that digital construction is as real as a physical construction. Nothing is fictional.
Timelessness is not a character to describe digital construction since the flatness of the internet has changed our relationship with time and space. The accumulation process becomes valuable which allows a project to grow from zero to infinity.
Asset Sampling:
Found objects from the internet, donated objects from peers, 3d scanned objects from daily life， and last but not least parts from past projects are all added to an asset pool. The process is not selective to make all objects to fit in the same genre, rather embracing the coexistence of differences. They are all alone together with no hierarchy.
Landscape Accumulation:
A live stream interface is set up. One can see how digital material applies to each asset while the landscape construction is happening in a green screen film set at the same time to experience the exchange between physical and digital environment also the exchange between front and back of the house of the construction.
Captured Scene 01:
One camera has been set up with the landscape as a target. Through cloning a gridded of cameras is created. After adding a random tag, one could experience the landscape throw the lens of a computer.
Captured Scene 02:
“From the side, a whole range; from the end, a single peak:
Far. near, high, low, no two parts alike.”
“横看成岭侧成峰，
远近高低各不同。”
Captured Scene 03:
“Why can’t I tell the true shape of Mountain Lu?
Because I myself am in the mountain.”
“不是庐山真面，
只缘身在此山中。”
