NANTOU
ANCIENT VILLAGE: OPEN SPACE
The
project’s purpose is to preserve the specific condition of everyday life that
is now being demolished by the invaded of modernism. Nowadays after modernism
has become famous and categorized of being civilized, the appearance of
building become similar. This leads to the preservation of ancient architecture
in order to let the future generation knows about the past. Meanwhile, the
relationship and the activities of people began to be abandon and extinct. Of
the following this project aims to create an open space or the space that can
be used as the public for any types of people. The characteristic of this open
space is hoe it can be adapt to any kind of limits, which the limits is the
area of the spaces that is diverse around the village and the uses of the
users. Therefore, the constraint is area with no less than 2 meters in width
with at least 3 boundary sides in order to shape the activities of the users.
In addition the activities that are choose to be the constraints are the common
activities the often seen in the village which is hanging clothes, sweeping
floor, choosing things of customers and motorcycle. This project will also
provoke the notion of how function of space can shape people and how people
create space at the same time.
Nantou
ancient city or Xin’an ancient city is also considered as one of the urban
village located between Bao’an and Nanshan district. Nantou ancient city is the
village that is well-known for its old atmospheric of preservation of Chinese
culture. It was once a prosperous village which has importance strategic
warrant protective wall to build against Japanese pirates etc. Nowadays, it is
being an area of preservation that the government tries to preserve and promote.
However, the uniqueness of this area doesn’t seem to be a real authentic of it,
due to the materiality of the architecture that was use in most of the village.
Moreover, the more preservation of architecture the more lack of community ‘s
interaction awareness. With the change
of technology, the pattern of how community of this village is being is now
changing in to more individual’s pattern. The interaction between people will
be abandon, due to the various types of people that come to the village to seek
for the rental house. This creates a large gap of interaction between people.
The urban village is the village that
contains many cultures, identity and hierarchy together within the same place.
The public space becomes the only space that they can do anything they wants.
Even though, some of the individuals activities still invades some part of the
space. The space can also be used in various kinds due to the personal though
or experience of people which can leads to the multiuse of object inside the
area. This leads to the interaction of people to people and people to the space
that should be concerned before being extinct. In addition, the space will also
help people to have an interaction between each other not only by communication
but also by perception or posture and activities they do like a big living room
for people to come and share their space together. The communal use of space
becomes common in different area like the public space. This project tries so
save the pattern of informal use of the space which is one of the charming this
village has. The use of space is
different according to different minds and ages.
This project creates elements that can
be integrated together into the public area which benefit the villager and also
create a multiuse legally inside the space rather than invading the space. The
elements are clothes’ hanger, panel that can be adapt to table or chair, floor
tiles and gap of limitation. These spaces are being protected by these elements
in order to make people know how much space can be use besides their building.
Meanwhile, they also protect the building at the same time by creating a limit
for those areas. For example, the floor tile will create a boundary which if
people want to go to their home they will use the path of normal floor instead
of the path with tile. Meanwhile, if they want to walk or have a rest or play
this space is suitable for them to use. Moreover, this space can also make
people having an interaction between together whether by directly or
indirectly. For instance, the children can use the clothes’ hanger as playing
elements or using the panel connecting them as table, chair or playing toys. Of
the following this space is a big living room that tries to reduce the boundary
between people and promote the limits of space by create an imaginary line by
using objects as a tools.
Using VR as a tools to generate the feeling and atmosphere for the user
