Infinity Ground : Thailand and Taiwan Contemporary Architecture
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Preface<br />
“<strong>Infinity</strong> <strong>Ground</strong> - <strong>Thail<strong>and</strong></strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Taiwan</strong> <strong>Contemporary</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> Exhibition”<br />
takes the earth as the interface, connecting all of nature as a background<br />
story. On the undulating surface, it provides conditions for the interdependence<br />
of people, buildings, <strong>and</strong> nature <strong>and</strong> balances the operating<br />
mechanisms of the environment. More than a century ago, German geologist<br />
Alfred Lothar Wegener wrote a book called The Origin of Continents <strong>and</strong><br />
Oceans <strong>and</strong> explained that the earth is aggregated into a Pangea, surrounded<br />
by the waters of the Panthalassa, which later began to drift <strong>and</strong> split to<br />
form the basic l<strong>and</strong>forms of the seven continents <strong>and</strong> five oceans.<br />
The exhibition continues the perspective of the “drift” <strong>and</strong> “aggregation”<br />
of the earth, presenting <strong>Thail<strong>and</strong></strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Taiwan</strong> contemporary architecture<br />
in two chapters, “<strong>Ground</strong> Exchanges” <strong>and</strong> “Feeling <strong>Ground</strong>s”, which show<br />
new human <strong>and</strong> nature lifestyles based on the common earth’s ground:<br />
togetherness, ritual, native, porosity, extra-ordinary, nostalgic, vernacular,<br />
<strong>and</strong> boundaryless.<br />
In the first chapter of “<strong>Ground</strong> Exchanges”, the architect used modern<br />
construction methods to frame the unique site scenery <strong>and</strong> reflect the rich<br />
characteristics of the ground. Such as Architects 49 Limited’s Velaa Sindhorn<br />
Village Langsuan (2019) <strong>and</strong> Singha D’luck Cinematic Theater (2017), the<br />
elevated buildings, provide a place for public communication.