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Hao-Yeh Lu

Hao-Yeh Lu

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OUROBOROS CITY : THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF MAANSHAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

The Fetishism of modern science led to the catastrophe of Chernobyl and Fukushima. It's crucial to rethink the future of nuclear power plant, since the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant is about to decommission in the next decade, the massive site in dimension and immortality of nuclear waste in time, made the decommission plan extremely complicated.

Ouroboros City is an architectural dystopia, depicting a foreseeable future where Science, Mystery and Superstition all are one. Absurdly but reasonably, the nuclear reactor turned into Pantheon of Alchemy, the nuclear waste storage turned into the Forbidden City of the Sanctity. All the existing complexity and contradiction coexist, as always.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Pingtung, Taiwan
Additional Credits: TUTOR: Guan-Hom Liu