Sky Earth Ancestors

Through my personal childhood memory at the festival of worship of ancestors as the beginning. Modernisation, left the ancestors we have worshipped, the gods we have prayed for, the rituals we have cherished, are gradually leaving, accompanied by that’s none of my business and treachery.

The project seeks to speculate how ancient rituals may transform, arouse the spiritual resonance of future people. How might we begin to have an alternative understanding of Chinese rural villages foregrounding the projective ideas of folk ritual/culture implication, in architecture.

However, the purpose of this design is neither to carry out historical documents, nor to restore the ancient ancestral temple, but based on the Chinese family view to explore the village as half city and half folk ritual space. Assist to speculate a new Chinese cultural capital possibility.

Hence, the project is not about giving a solution. But through the lens of an alternative world to explore ideas about architectural, urban and cultural implications. Borrow technique from film and performance in order to animate scenarios, telling stories as a new way to offer us a journey to diagnosing the present moment. And to communicate with people outside the architectural discipline, transcend disciplinary boundaries and connect to people.