記憶的顯影Manifestation of Memories

 

如果記憶是以類似照片的形式存在於腦袋之中，那麼這個設計就宛如一個將過去重新顯影的過程！
本案的發想從四位姊妹們童年對母親的回憶開始，採用意識流的空間架構方式，將與母親過往相處的片段場景，用想像及杜撰的方式將之串連起來。

＂母親是一位在台灣日據時代受過高等教育的先進女士，小時侯就看見她在桌上拿著筆畫畫，就覺得媽媽什麼都會做...＂姊妹們用記憶拼圖的方式，逐步的勾勒出母親的形象。＂放學回家，一打開大門，就是一條長廊玄關，脫下了外出鞋，尋著飯菜香，母親就在廚房忙進忙出，並催促著我們快到有緣廊的房間寫功課，而窗外是她精心打造的庭院....＂。在姊妹的談話中，老家的樣貌猶如一張張泛黃的照片，時而清晰時而模糊。本案的空間架構，猶如不同時間的老照片拼圖般，重組了一個完全不同於一般住家的平面配置：大門外側可以看到若隱若現的內院，入內後是一個刻意拉長的廊道，區別了裡外，也放緩了步伐。
玄関接續的空間不是張顯氣派的大客廳，反倒是四間臥室的中介與轉換空間，這是四姊妹在夜深人靜時，彼此聊天或靜處的角落，拾階而上。二樓有老家熟悉的樣貌：開敞的廚房及有緣廊的客廳，而木構造的斜屋頂，則譲躺臥之間充滿了童年無限的想像與回憶，在質樸的水泥牆上，有母親經年累月嘔心瀝血的創作。

對家的記憶，也在這個設計的過程中，清清楚楚地攤在眼前，猶如昨天才發生般歷歷在目，久久無法釋懷......

 

If memories were stored in our mind as film negatives, this project would be an attempt to develop those negatives and bring memories back to life!

Inspired by four sisters and their reminiscence of their mother, the overall space in this project is designed as manifestation of treasured family memories with its structure alluding to stream of consciousness and linked by imaginative inventions
“Having received higher education, Mother was a very advanced woman in her time during the Japanese occupation period in Taiwan. I remember when I was little, I thought she was capable of anything as I watched her make drawings at the table.” Like pieces of a puzzle, memories shared by the sisters converged to form an image of their mother. “When we came home from school, we opened the front door and the first to greet us was a long antechamber. After taking off our shoes, we followed the wafting scent of delicious food to the kitchen where Mother busily walked in and out. She’d urge us to finish our homework in the room with a patio, and outside the window of that room was a garden she tenderly built.” At times vivid, at times hazy, images of the old house surfaced through these descriptions like old yellow photographs.Because the overall spatial structure in this project is designed to manifest memory from different times, the result is a floor plan unlike that of any other residence. Outside the front door is a looming inner garden. Once entering the house, a long, stretching corridor acts as a barrier between the outside and inside worlds while encouraging one to unwind.The antechamber does not lead to a grand living room, but rather a common area outside four bedrooms for the sisters to chat or enjoy a moment of tranquility in the middle of a quiet night.

Walking up the stairs, one would be welcomed by a space resonating familiarity: an open kitchen and a living room with a porch. On the other hand, whether lying or sitting down, as one looks up to the sloping wood ceiling childhood memories and infinite imagination would be sure to float through the mind. On the plain concrete walls are works painstakingly made by their mother over the years.
As the design progressed, their memories of home were summoned from the past, unfolding before their eyes as if childhood was only yesterday.