TING-YU LING
The building I chose for this project is the Carrefour Si Wei Branch in Taipei City. It is composed of two floors. The first floor has a huge open plan, it is the main area where people buy and look for goods. The second floor is a much smaller room for storage that contains stacks of products. It also has a small restroom, and a room for employees to get rest.
The images show the details of the building and the materials. After taking away all the objects in it, a large area is produced, and the only things that remain on the first floor are the four pillars. The two floors are connected by an elevator used for transporting products and people. There are three openings in the building, the main entrance, where customers come in and out, the back door, and the opening at the other side of the elevator. One of the biggest features of the building is the elements on the ceilings, including lights, vents, and speakers that are spreading throughout the whole ceiling plan.
The knolled diagram shows the prime elements of the building. One of the main categories of these elements is doors, including glass doors, the metal back door, and the elevator door. The other main category is the objects of the ceiling, which account for the largest proportion of these elements.
The categories for my ANT map are home stuff and storage stuff. For the storage stuff, I chose the objects related to shopping activities such as shopping trollies, shopping baskets, storage shelves, and fridges. For the home stuff, I focus on two different brands of tissue paper. The objective of the ANT map is to show the production process of these objects. They went through multiple actors and then finally reach the center actors, which are the building and the customers. Moreover, the actors are being colored. The blue actors represent the companies, the yellow actors represent the government agencies, and the green actors represent individual institutions. The circles show the prime factors involved in these processes, and one of the important factors is sustainability. Customer's emphasis on sustainability results in companies changing their policy to create more eco-friendly products.
The GIF shows the composition of the building. My categories for the plan are roomed and saturated. In order to create a system, the elements in the building are based on a huge grid. For the first floor, two different sizes of square elements are produced to create contrast and saturation. The second floor is composed of smaller elements, but also create a contrast between circle and squares, near and messy elements. The images also show the circulation, the yellow arrow lines are the main circulation and the black arrow lines are the smaller circulations.
The building is divided into five areas that discuss different issues based on the production of tissue papers. The video above demonstrates the one-way circulation and how people go through these different areas.
Area 1: The first area tries to show the carbon dioxide released during different states of production of a certain brand, which include raw material, producing, delivering, and recycling. The transparent columns represent the carbon dioxide and the other space in the white box. By going through these boxes, people will be able to feel the proportion in a visual and a spatial way.
Area 2: The second area talks about customers has a certain power to create a better environment. Based on my research, companies become eco-friendly because customers start to care about sustainability, so the area was trying to show that relationship. The shopping trolley represents the customer's buying decisions and the objects on the shelves start to change base on those decisions.
Area 3: The third area discussed the carbon footprint of different cities. A part of the grid was transformed into longitude and latitude. The columns pinpoint the location of different cities, and their size indicates the amount of carbon footprint.
Area 4: In the fourth area, the columns begin to represent woods. In order to create one ton of tissue paper, seventeen trees will have to be cut, so the area is trying to show the numbers being exchanged in that process. The shorter columns represent the trees being cut down, and the numbers of hanging tissue papers represent the amount produced after trees are being cut down.
Area 5: The last area aims to show the percentage of recycled paper products in the paper product produced each year in a visual way, which include tissue papers, papers, and paper containers. The products are being stored in paper bags to give people a better idea to understand the numbers. The lighter-color bags represent the amount being recycled, and the darker bags represent the amount that is not.
The parallax video shows the view at the backside of the building. Before putting objects into the building, I did some modifications to building. The first thing is the extension of the second floor, which creates more space and also the opportunity to use the roof area of the first floor. The second is the implementation of white curvy slabs, which gives people a slight idea of the content of the building and also produces interaction outside the building.
The last images show the interior of the building and act as a first-person view. The elements are meant to create interactive spaces for people to react in different ways, and address issues and questions related to the production of tissue papers.