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Poiesis Repercussion<\/strong>
\nWhat<\/strong>
\nRethink Architecture: Process between new and old, from man-made to nature made.<\/em><\/strong>
\nMy hypothesis is if the process of ruination can help building construct the sense of place, to transform its shape and respond to external forces and agencies, why can\u2019t we use it to drive our new architecture design.<\/p>\n

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Why<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1911, in George Simmel\u2019s \u201cthe ruin\u201d, he described the vision of ruin is \u201cessentially an accommodation between nature and culture, the artificial object sliding imperceptibly towards an organic state, until in the end nature has its way and we can no longer legitimately speak of a ruin at all.\u201d Conventionally, the building is designed and built to be new and complete. As time is passing, the building decay to be the ruin by different impacts. The process of ruination eliminates the original building\u2019s function. It changes and transforms the building to an unknown place. It provides evidence for the community\u2019s complexity and diversity. It reveals the essence of architecture. The space is changed from subjective to be objective which allows other agents to occupy and take place, such as greenery, insets, man. Its remnant of the past and fragments of the future create a strong sense of place. The original architectural setting is transformed to create sense of intimacy. Thus it gives people room of imagination to reconnect man to the site and the building.<\/p>\n

Modern architecture has tendency to design to be permanent and unbreakable(Fig.6) by using durable and non-degradable materials in construction, such as glass, metal and plastic. These materials are impermeable and get a long period of time to break down. For example, plastic takes over 450 years to decompose and glass needs over 1,000,000 years. (Fig.9)They are the building preservative. At the same time, the buildings in city are going to pull down quickly because of rapidly urbanization.(Fig.8) This contradiction discourage the relation and interaction between building and its situated site. In China, the former vice-minister of China\u2019s Housing & Urban-Rural Development ministry, Qiu Baoxing estimated that new buildings going up in China today will only stand for 25 to 30 years before being demolished(12). From Laugier\u2019s primitive hut, building\u2019s function was changed from Le Corbusier\u2019s \u201cliving machine\u201d, to monument(Fig.10), and to be the consumption product nowadays. How architecture can help to alleviate this contradiction? Can ruination becomes a new way to respond this issue, and how?<\/p>\n

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Film essay [ruin]<\/p>\n