Dongmen Future Market – An Urban Market, a Marketed City
Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Da-Yen University
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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.
