Walk in “Tableaus” 

Cheryl Zixuan Zhao

Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

Rather than designing buildings from functional proposes, the project considers space from “actions it witnesses”, using performance nature as a structure to speculate and curate spatial relations around historical and cultural environments, city behaviours and activities. Architecture as a way of recording, creating and acting in the city, providing experiences of memories and culture collections from citizen views.

Using a collection method of actions in daily life of local surroundings, discovering from site history and local culture, as “actors” which act in architecture design process in the project. Plots of performance making audience scenarios, to think performance as an art way that display multiple action phases. The way of considering architecture space through sequences in juxtaposed and conflicting action phases to arrange and act as city performance.

The project uses a critique vision of what architecture does in the city to give a new sense of communities in traditional surroundings around by modern city life. As a way to have new understanding of action possibilities in public space inside community, and reconsider in position of traditional areas in historical cities.

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