WIP - Process

Abandoned Man made Structures in urban context – Ruins



Abandoned man made structures self proves the failure of given programs by silently existing in the urban context. Once celebrated as the ultimate solution for the progress, abandoned man made structures failed foresee the rapid speed of change aided by technological advancement. Now, without its context, abandoned man made structures quietly claiming its existence without any recognition. By living in the past and existing in the present, abandoned man made structure decays its memory within itself.

Programmed architecture



It is always considered that the program of architecture gives the meaning of existence to the building. From the site to the organization of the space to ornament, the programmed architecture is designed to enforce the presumed experience to the user to create limited memory. At the same time, by keeping what is given on its body, programmed architecture remains static neglecting the flow of time and changing requirement. The programmed architecture exist as a complex machine as a memory of the past.

Memory + Change



Progress always involves reference back to the past. In that sense, memory, as ability to remember plays carries important value as information. Knowing that, the accumulation of memory has been emphasized as an important task for the civilized cultures. The medium to collect the information has been changed from written characters to the code to condense as much as information possible in most efficient way. As a result, we now have the enormous amount of unfiltered memory as data in our hands. With the accelerated processing power and communication tools, the duration of delay to interact with memory has been reduced, and accelerating the speed of change.

At the same time, the meaning of memory has been changed from the remembering to storage. What is valued is the ability to capturing the moment through the extension of our own perception and processing of the captured data from the where its stored. The scale of device doesn’t involve physical endeavor anymore, compare to past that to access to the memory always requires spatial experience of going to the place and looking through it.

What is missing during the changing notion of the memory is the experience of accessing to the memory and the importance of space. Although we are living in highly digitized society, we are still tied to geo specific location. At the same time, with the developed tools in our hands, we now have extended physical boundary to recreate the reality and memory. (Vrillio – vision machine)

This thesis is an attempt to examine the memory and space in modern term. Knowing that assigning program won’t be necessary anymore considering the rapid change, what does it mean to create a space that can be remembered? As a attempt, this thesis tries to find a way of creating perception through the tools inside of a abandoned space that doesn’t exist in the memory. The collection of the perception is then analyzed as memory. The memory is then recreated as an experience. Together, the process would propose a new way of analyzing the architecture, away from the old idea of program, organization and circulation.