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The corridor connecting the next space is filled with propeller-shaped blades that people need to find their way through, which is more likely to make them feel more engaged. At the same time, it fits in with the theme of vortex, which can be created by propellers.

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In this space, hemispherical objects on the ground will keep rising with the time, it can create obstacles for people when they are walking, giving them the sensation of stumbling, and this can simulate a feeling of when they learnt how to walk as a child. I believe that we all remember a feeling of when we're learning to walk, there's always somewhere between falling and not falling.

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This transition reflects the process of people’s growing up, when they come into contact with the outside world, light can gradually pass through the hollow of the top, implying the exploration of the world. In this corridor, the dark corridor itself implies the process of our growth, especially before people were exposed to social circles. When people walk through the corridor, the light will pass through the hollow part at the top, indicating the process when people gradually grow up and start to contact with the outside world and socialize with different people.

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When we were born, we know very little about the world. It can be seen as that everyone is in a cube of their own. As we grow up and begin to experience the outside world, our little cubes are filled with all sorts of things that we experience. In this space, each frame represents a person's story, and as people begin to socialize and make friends, each person's story is exchanged. When the audience moves around in these frameworks, it represents the process of people’s growing up when they meet different people carrying their own stories and experiences.

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In this space, the partition is a vague transition, people can see the space inside, but people need to push the door to enter the next space. This door is as a divider between dream and reality. Because when people grow up, they have to face the pressure from study and work in life, sometimes people have to put their dreams aside in order to survive. When people push the door to get inside, it implies that they are forced to make a choice, when their life is entering the next stage.

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In this connection, the corridor is long and people have to walk a long way to reach to the next space. When the audience walks through this part of the road, they will find that the road is long and tortuous, which implies challenges and difficulties in life.

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The final one is the road leading to the exit. When people come here, the steps will fall from the top step by step, which is to provide more time for the audience to think about their own life journey when they are leaving this space. I want to make the steps as long as possible, so people can have enough time to look back on their life journey when they step out of the space, and be able to have the opportunity to think about what they achieve and what they lose in their life, because we only have one chance to live, and it is a one-way trip.

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TIK TOK: AN EXPLORATION OF DREAM SPACE

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Do you hear the sound of your life clock?

There are several age stages in our lives, and each is unique with its own charm and fantasy. I once floated in a dream, standing on stairs and seeing a boy’s life cycle from when he is a baby, to when he is a grizzled old man. From my perspective, life is a journey where we exploring the world in our own way.
The scene in the dream makes me wonder if there was a connection between space and time. I hope to explore the relationship between space and time in the process of gradually materializing the abstract world in dreams.

In this project, you may see some very different spatial relationships from the real world. As far as I am concerned, these mysterious and uncanny spatial relationships are more able to reflect the feeling of dreams and the abstraction of life. When stepping into the stories, you may find something similar to yours, and when you look back, what does your story look like?

I’d like to continue the fantasy and mystery in the dream. Through the bookThe Architectural Uncanny (Vidler, 1992), I find what makes a space different is not what actually it is, but what we attach on it such as stories, memories, and imagination.

As I mentioned previously, to make the dream space differ from the reality, I referred to some films like Doctor Strange(2016), Inception (Nolan, 2010), and Escher’s painting, and I found there are three patterns to help me achieve it: reverse, distortion and mirror effect.

During the process of finding out how to create a closely connected story, I find something useful. In a music video called Cheers by Mayday, a Chinese band, I noticed that the changes of time can be reflected in the items that we hold at different ages, for example, comic books and yogurt turn into briefcase and champagne over time. What remains is we always have something in our hands, what changes are the thing that we hold at different ages, this makes a story logical and strongly bonded. I would like to create a life story and try to extract elements from life cycle, draw a sketch according to 12 age stages, and transform them into a digital model. My idea is that people only have access to this space once in their life, and they can’t go back after entering it, implying that life can only be once and we cannot start over.

Life clock is one-way, it cannot be stopped or reversed.