Faculty of Design
Environmental Design
Joanna Zhong
Journey of Memory
Environmental Design
The project uses the 3 different edges between the city, Portland and Lake Ontario as a reference, using narrative spatial techniques to express how people experience the process of moving from the material (real) world of the living to the world of the dead, how they move from the hustle and bustle to tranquility, calmness and rebirth. They seem to be independent but connected. At the same time, I was also thinking about some questions, do we have the real meaning in our life? Will we forget something that is important to us? In fact, we come from nature, we are part of nature, all things are a cycle and eventually return to infinity and back to reality. Death is not a permanent farewell, but forgetting is. Someone remembers you, and that there is still a space in your memory. We need to recall the memories and the "Spark" in our busy and ordinary lives. This is the great happiness and meaning of being life.
“The narrative nature of architecture is composed of multiple narrative structures together, with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. Light, material, sound and temperature are all elements that constitute the real experience, and this real experience is direct. In the design, one should not think of space only in one way, but should integrate time-space organically and synthesize the overall body perception, which is the soul of architectural narrative. Architecture is not equal to narrative, but narrative as a design technique can stimulate the interest of space, enrich the depth of space experience, produce dramatic effect, and reveal some kind of meaning to people.”
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Joanna Zhong aka. Jo
“Experiencing architecture and the environment can help generate the spirit of place and understanding of architectural space, as well as help design buildings and cities. ...” [More]
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