Exploring a city through its rain, coffee, beer, and sea.
Liquefaction of History
Conceptual 3D
Concept
Qingdao, often known as Tsingtao, is a humid coastal city. While living here, I gradually gained a deeper understanding of the city. I tried to understand and touch it through my creative works and began to think and study the city from a representation of reality and the historical dimension.
The Great Discovery accelerated the creation of the concept of East and West in the modern sense, and established a global colonialism centered on the West. The concept of the East is constantly evolving. The arrival of global integration seems to have eased the differences between East and West created by the colonial past. Qingdao, as a typical oriental city, took part in the process from colonial history to globalization. Stripping away the surface of its cultural prosperity in the modern sense, the grave trail caused by Qingdao's modernization are still evident.
The project researched Qingdao's recent modern history, working with models and collages, and focuses on four kinds of liquids representing the city's attributes, including the sea, rainwater (sewer system), beer, and coffee, to express their relationship to the city. Through these historic liquids, we can transcend time and explore the traces and history of Qingdao from colonial culture to globalization. These images suggest a sense of a long-lost future, absurd but plausible.
Architecture
Architectural Archives
Undergraduate projects spanning memorials, libraries, community spaces, and conceptual design.
Animation
Appeared and Left
If there is an extra ticket, would you go with me?
"Appeared and Left" is an early 3D-rendered animation project created during my undergraduate studies, inspired by Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. This work explores nostalgia, longing, and the bittersweet emotions of separation, set against the backdrop of a meticulously crafted digital Hong Kong in its golden era. The project focuses on environmental storytelling, utilizing cinematic lighting, composition, and spatial design to evoke the dreamlike, neon-lit aesthetic characteristic of Wong Kar-wai’s films. Every detail, from the color palette to the atmospheric lighting, was carefully constructed to immerse the viewer in a world of fleeting encounters and unresolved emotions. By closely mirroring the visual and emotional depth of In the Mood for Love, this animation seeks to recreate the essence of an era—a city filled with whispers of unspoken words and missed opportunities. Through the fusion of architectural visualization, mood-driven cinematography, and narrative design, Appeared and Left serves as an experimental homage to classic Hong Kong cinema, capturing the melancholy of love and loss in a surreal, digitally reconstructed space.
