PORTFOLIO 2006-2011
YU, SZU-AN
{ architecture design }
SPEEDSometimes, the city is too fast for me to know it’s face;
except the tenseness of people.
SLOW MOVEI found that when I was moving in the city as usual;
I was on a bus, going to the next destination.
Slow and tortuous movements extended the time and the route of getting along with the city.
CONNECTED SPACEIt is opposite to underground-traffic;
the spaces could be connected rather than cut off and closed:
inside/outside, near/distant.
It is easy to connect with the spaces of a city by sight.
MESSAGESLots of interesting things are happening everyday;
the cities, streets, and people, they all have stories.
And It is one if the best ways to observe them.
MOVING/READINGWe are reading the city through the window of the vehicles while moving.
People --> moving mode (first layer of space) --> city (second layer of space)
With different moving mode there will be different interpretation.
PERCEPTIONThe sensation as the media connect people and the first
layer of surrounding space, people explore and
experience the space through their sensory-motor, with
different interpretation generated by different
perception, while different moving mode through will
affect the reading process of the city.
People --> perception --> space
Especially the speed of physical or mental, high speed
could weaken the sensibility, otherwise, low speed could
increase it.
SENSORY-MOTORSTake the moving mode of the bus as an example:
Taking bus constrains people’s behavior from walking or moving to still sitting or
standing position. Students or commuters in the bus are detached from their original
task. They can do very little in this space for waiting until the bus arrive at their
destination, and tend to slow down their pace.
At this moment the sensory-motors of people become the vantage point with more
thinking, hearing or seeing more the ignored things of the surrounding environment.
People have more awareness of environment.
Among these relationships, I categorize they into three states: internal, exchange, and
external state.
INTERNAL Internal state refers to one’s own
state of mind or thinking activities.
For example, a further idea about an
event happened today, or thought of
something which was ignored
before.
Because of the limit of the action, we
could concentrate more on thinking
or imagining and put ourselves into
the state of self-reflection.
EXCHANGEExchange is the transition between the
closed space and the space outside. The
sound and smell outside will spread into
the bus when door opens, the
temperature and air flow in the car will
be affected also.
At this time, the inner space and the
outside space will be linked and weaken
the sense of closure to allow the external
information to be passed. And when the
door closes, the link is cut off and the
space turns closed after a series of
interchanges of the information.
EXTERNALExternal is the milieu outside ourselves.
With our sensory-motor schema we
could capture information from external
events: listening the dialogue between
the passengers next to you, seeing a
new office building on the street ,
identifying one’s profile from the dress,
or presuming the rush hour by the
density of people on the bus.
The building, people and weather are all
embedded with message for our
perceptions to interpretate.
Before you can tell what that store around the corner is, you have
already missed it. It is because you’ re moving too fast.
Before you figure out the story of weeping girl in the novel that you
are reading, you are halfway off your seat to get off the bus. It is
because you’ re moving too fast.
You wish to gain a few more minutes to think through all the things
that happened today, but the bus has arrived at your stop.
Someday you may like to spend thirty more minutes to go home, on
a slow bus.
[ SENSATION.RAR ] Unzip: Sensation.rar, by slowing down the speed
-THESIS PROJECT in fourth year of university / Jun. 2009
DETACHED / RE-STRUCTUREIn this high speed and high volume traffic flow, the site is on the traffic
island area which is detached from high speed surroundings.
In this context with slow paced space, three states of internal, exchange,
and external are infilled into the site and re-structure the urban spaces
through the interaction of perceptions.
InternalCompression, closed, cohesive.
ExchangeLinked, conditionally changing.
ExternalPossibility of a variety of activity, message passing.
ExternalPossibility of a variety of activity, message passing.
SITETaipei’s first east-west elevated expressway is the most important traffic line,
shadowing a street used to be railway, now buried underneath.
It intersects with the other major roads and overpass seven administrative districts. - Taipei, Taiwan
Civic Blvd. -
High Way
Civic Blvd.
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Ineternational Finance Centre
Hang Seng Bank New Headquarters Building
Central Market
1939 1991 2003
DECLINE NO ACTIVITY OCCUPIEDREBIRTH
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CINEMETRICSIn Cinemetrics International Workshop, we discussed the three
directors who has different styles: Yasujiro Ozu, Jean Luc
Godard, and John Cassavetes. The still camera frames Ozu’s
cinema are just like architectural drawings. Directions of
camera are perpendicular to each other. And these still camera
frames creating images are similar to making elevations or
sections in architectural skills. As to Jean Luc Godard, he used
panning and tilting way. Through those techniques, the view is
extended; and it follows the actions of people or events. And
the third director, Cassavetes, was using hand-held camera
skill. This makes the images more active, unstable, and close to
humans’ sight.
In addition to the styles of moving camera, we also practice
“perception images (long distance)”, “action images (medium
distance)”, and “affection images (close up)”. In perception
images, we can realize the relation between people, objects,
and space. Action images are going to show the behavior of
human or objects clearly. Refer to affection images, it usually
focus on someone’s face or particular objects to reveal the
emotions or specific meanings.
DEVELOPMENT / REDEFINED SPACEFrom the history of development in this site, it can be
divided into three period: 1939, the central market was
built; 1991, the Hang Sheng Bank appeared and 2003,
IFC came out. Now there are two elevated walkways
between the three buildings, which were established in
different generations.
Due to the emergence of new elevated walkway, the
function of Central Market was redefined again by the
new activities. In the past, there is as a market to sell
vegetables and daily things. But nowadays, it doesn’t
open any more since its decline. From the photos, we
can discover that there are many imported laborers
gathering on weekend even street performers, homeless
and beggars. Thus their activities create the new space
in Central Market and change its original function. They
make the space in this area more vivid and dramatic.
What role does the Central Market play at the bottom of Central-Mid-Levels
Escalator and Walkway System in 21st century?
How about the function of Central Market and walkways nowadays?
[ CYCLE: The Decline and Rebirth ]Cinemetrics International Workshop in Hong Kong 2009
- CINEMETRICS PROJECT / Mar. 2009
OVERLAP and FEEDBACKFrom the expanding new areas and the alteration of development focus in history, to the decline
of Central Market and rebirth given by new activities, it shows an interesting phenomenon
among them. Especially comparing to the cycle of people’s gathering and passing on weekend
and weekdays, it shapes an overlap and a feedback.
This project is to try to make a film using Ozu’s camera style and describe the characteristics of
the space under the background given by above.
Because of the extremely change of climate in recent
years, the liquid perception of Taiwan becomes
different with the collapse of the mighty nature. We
want to make a series of experimental images and
space-arts about the interpretation of liquid and
reflect on the new perception and the possibilities of
design by the relationship between body and different
view level.
We capture a variety of images and films about the
liquid perception of Taiwan from the surroundings,
such as the real urban space, the images of the city,
the history of the city, and the changing information to
represent the liquid perception.
In this project, we use a new observing way to take the
images of Tainan, the ancient governor’s resident, and
its surroundings to present the relationship between
the history and people’s lives.
Through this installation inspired from the thought of water, we expressed the concern of the relations
between liquid perception, urban space, and daily life.
And the images taken from the surrounding of Governor’ s Residence in Tainan County reflected the
interactions between people and the spaces. We tried to provide a new aspect to understand the place
where we were.
[Liquid Perception of Governor’s Residence]Resident Artists Program in Governor’s Residence in Tainan County
- COMPETITION PROJECT / NOV. 2010 / cooperation work
{ graphic design } { photography } { painting }
/RECord, REConstruct, RECode
The irregular polyhedron represents the aggregate artists, who all create and take REC as a topic but in different ways. The pointy part of this polyhedron is just like a pen which is writing/record and also a needle which is reading/reconstruct. There is an inverted image of the polyhedron; it means people will have reflections when they received the messages from our creations, and that is recode.
[REC – RECord, REConstruct, RECode ]Aug. 2011
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Memories of that moment will be retained; but when you see them, you will create a new one.
[REC – RECord, REConstruct, RECod ]Aug.2011594mm x 420mm
/ Prelude and Fugue No.18 g# minor, BWV 887 Piano Sonata No.27, Op.90 : First & Second movements Rhapsody no.15 Rakoczy March suite pour le piano :Toccata Bukolische Weisen
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Musician / Freelance Illustrator NCKU, Architecture, Tainan
Working Experience: Viola, The Chiayi Civil Orchestra/ Piano, The Chiayi Civil Choir/
time 12/19 Mon 19:30venue REC 351
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/ Prelude and Fugue No.18 g# minor, BWV 887 Piano Sonata No.27, Op.90 : First & Second movements Rhapsody no.15 Rakoczy March suite pour le piano :Toccata Bukolische Weisen
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Working Experience: Viola, The Chiayi Civil Orchestra/ Piano, The Chiayi Civil Choir/
Musician / Freelance Illustrator
time 12/19 Mon 19:30venue REC 351
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free entry !www.facebook.com/RECoding
Annva Kay is a young musician, who is mystic but graceful as well as her music. She is leaving us for studying abroad in this Christmas season. It is just a beautiful solitude.
[ ANNVA’ S PIANO RECITAL]Dec.2011
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Continuing the idea of “CONCEPT CITY”, a
human-like shape is bearing the three tetrahedrons
as his brain. The pyramids in the center are like
fluctuation charts of brain waves.
[ HUMANE CITIES ]JAN.2012
420mm X 594mm
A tetrahedron is a polyhedron with the minimum number of edges, which is the base shape in three-dimension. It means even a great city needs to construct from tiny elements. And the number of tetrahedrons is three, presenting the quantities of components of a city.
[ CONCEPT CITY ]Dec. 2011150mm x 100mm
Tokyo, 2011MINOX GT-EKODAK 500Twood frame, digital printSIZE: 460mm x 310mm x 100mm
Barcelona, 2011OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4PARADE 100wood frame, digital printSIZE: 610mm x 410mm x 170mm
Barcelona, 2011OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4PARADE 100wood frame, digital printSIZE: 410mm x 410mm x 130mm
Yilan, 2011MINOX GT-EKODAK Tri-X 400TXwood frame, digital printSIZE: 460mm x 310mm x 100mm
Tokyo, 2011MINOX GT-EFUJIFILM S400wood window frame, digital printSIZE: 530mm x 410mm x 50mm
Barcelona, 2011OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4KODAK Tri-X 400TXwood frame, digital printSIZE: 710mm x 410mm x 220mm
India, 2008OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4FUJIFILM X-TRA 400wood window frame, digital printSIZE: 660mm x 380mm x 50mm
Tokyo, 2009OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4FUJIFILM X-TRA 400wood window frame, digital printSIZE: 530mm x 410mm x 50mm
[ CONCEPT CITY ] Exhibition at REC, Tainan, Taiwan. Dec 18, 2011 to Jan 15, 2012
Barcelona, 2011OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4PARADE 100wood window frame, digital printSIZE: 490mm x 440mm x 50mm
Nantou, 2011MINOX GT-EEFINITI UXI 200Digital printSIZE: 650mm x 390mm x 50mm
London, 2011OLYMPUS OM-1G.Zuiko 50mm F1.4KODAK Tri-X 400TXwood window frame, digital printSIZE: 490mm x 440mm x 50mm
Baku, 2010
oil painting240mm x 190mm
Woman with blue hair, 2011
oil painting320mm x 410mm
PORTFOLIO 2006-2011
YU, SZU-AN
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