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

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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

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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