thesis title: RE-VITALIZE
-how small public architecture can reinforce social interactions in urban spaces

investigation / position:

new network technology and virtual communication has dramatically changed the way we interact. However, there is still an important aspect to the physical, grounded, face-to-face communications. architecture, spatial experience in nature, has a new role of initiating and reinforcing social interactions, meanwhile facilitating the inevitable trend of a new networked society.

process:

investigating + making + modifying + prototyping


preliminary experiment:
a series of tent structures installed in the atrium of the school of architecture, for user observation

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