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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.

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