Nowadays, many newly built houses have very high prices after completion due to factors such as land, materials, and labor costs. They are small in size and many facilities or spaces are abandoned, and instead provide services to people in a public way. However, for people, when they return home from work, the house is depressing and cramped, with no space to release stress, relax, or have a sense of ritual. Water is like a mirror. A person facing the tranquil water surface can reflect on himself and relax. There are many new projects in modern cities with high housing prices and small spaces. When you go home after work, there is no space to release stress, relax and have a sense of ritual.
Dongmen Future Market – An Urban Market, a Marketed City
Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Da-Yen University
Beneath the branching passageways of the Hsinchu Core lies the hidden presence of the city’s very first department store. Once a witness to the tides of time, it now stands still, its vibrancy muted by shifting consumer habits and the spatial disconnection caused by vertical walls and horizontal floor slabs. The vendors above the second floor cry out in silent frustration, unable to change their fate.
Today, much of the site remains in a state of abandonment. This design does not seek to restore the original appearance of the marketplace, but rather to introduce a forward-looking, experimental intervention. By layering and collaging imagery, the design breaks through the barriers of walls and slabs, reconnecting spatial transparency and the continuity of activity. Semi-transparent layers create fragmented lines of perspective, causing the viewer’s gaze to lose focus and wander.
Multiple events and timelines coexist here—dimensions are overlaid and interwoven, allowing the space to be shaped by influences from parallel temporal realities.
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