SHIH - POEM

詩欣 SHIH-HSIN is my original name. 言 is language, word. 寺 is temple or mystery story. Combine with 言 and 寺, as 詩 as poem. Poetry that free the soul.

[urbanination]

Folly for a Flyover, a London air theatre space created from the unused space under an overpass bridge.

[shinae-forest]

"transform reality" Álvaro Siza

     Today, I visited a really nice exhibition. It invited seven architects who are from different countries to display their ideas of Sensing Spaces. According to the official website of Royal Academy of Art, "As you respond to different structures, textures, lighting, scents and colours, we invite you to consider some of the big questions about the nature of architecture". As you can image that the exhibition is going to challenge your sense through texture, light, smell, material..etc. In addition, the exhibition is welcome to let you take photo, touch the works. Furthermore, you can climb up to discover some secret views, or you might be invited to join the projects as well. It is a place where allows you to use your whole sense to feel the space instead of only visualization.

     Moreover, the seven architects show their opinions about space and nature in this exhibition. My favorite quotation in the exhibition is from Álvaro Siza:

"In a city the atmosphere is all around you and is every changing. New things will become old things...

Time is a great architect."

    Anyway, I am sure that the exhibition displays a variety of perspectives and different imaginations of space. Moreover, it does a impress exhibition which can feel any different types of sense. 

Grafton Architects - Light Structure Surface

Photo by Shinae Wang

Pezo von Ellrichshausen - Blue Pravillion

Photo by Shinae Wang

Li Xiaodong - Hazel sticks, scrylic panels with LED lights....

Photo by Shinae Wang

Kengo Kuma - 4mm diameter whittled bamboo sticks infused with aromas

Photo by Shinae Wang

Diébédo Francis Kéré - Polypropylene honeycomb...

Photo by Shinae Wang

More Information: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk

[shinae-forest]

Tiny World

I discovered these moss few days ago when I was on my way to take bus to uni. It generally appear on brick's gap. They are really beautiful, especially after rainy day, like a tiny world. Imagine that there is a small creature society in the moss. There is a small forest as well. In addition, those 'trees' in the tiny world, it is the moss sporophyte.

Those tiny planet can set themselves out without design. It is a possible way that natural combine with building naturally.

我在幾天前，搭巴士去學校的路途發現了這個微小的苔蘚植物。通常他們都出現在磚造牆的縫隙，在下雨過後他們顯得特別閃亮漂亮。想像他們可能也是ㄧ個吵鬧的小世界，也有ㄧ些小森林。這些看起來像小森林的樣貌其實是他們的胞子囊。

這些微小的植物會自己找到他們自己適合生存的地方，不需要去特別設計。這也是ㄧ種不錯的方法讓自然和建築自然的結合。

[subtilitas]

Bernd Riegger Architektur - House of the forest owls, Wolfurt 2011. Photos (C) Adolf Bereuter.