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Interbreeding Field is the matrix building of an experimental site
for architecture, which was first planned and designed by Li H.
LU in 1998, and afterwards built single-handedly by Lu and the graduate
students under his guidance at the Graduate Institute of Architecture,
Tainan National College of the Arts in 1999. After 3 years of group
efforts, Interbreeding Field won the Far Eastern Architecture Design
Award in 2002.
An Open "Spatial Construction" and Exploration
Interbreeding Field is not merely a building but also a breeding
locus for providing all kinds of possible architectural experiments.
It is a hub that keeps an open, experimental attitude, in order
to nurture the next generation architects in Taiwan. In this sense,
the Interbreeding Field is an architectural team as well, the members
of which include Li H. LU and the cadets that have worked closely
with him.
Interbreeding Field is located at the edge of a hillside on the
campus of the Tainan National College of the Arts. Surrounded by
wilderness, the Interbreeding Field has been built as an open framework,
which forms a reciprocal relationship with the natural environment
around it. Interbreeding Field emphasizes an architectural training
through physical and manual practice, the intention of which is
to engage the participating member to discover and experience the
textures and conditions imbedded in the surroundings through the
use of his/her own body.
A Formal Language Developed from Land Ethics
Taking the matrix site of Interbreeding Field as a stepping stone,
the graduate students, on the one hand, have to explore the potentials
of all kinds of possible architectural materials and structures;
on the other hand, they are, too, required to involve physically
by entering the landscape to research and uncover the geographical
characteristics of the hillside, the peculiarity of its vegetation,
and the minute climatic alteration of the region in different seasons
and timings. And then, each of them has to learn to integrate the
discoveries into his/her own work.
Interbreeding Field holds a humble attitude in respecting the earth
and at the same time emphasizes making the best use of the material
value of an architectural structure. It is in the belief of the
members of Interbreeding Field that those two aspects should find
an aesthetic balance well. Through such inborn and deliberate value
of Interbreeding Field toward architecture, in accordance with the
manual labor process central to this ritualized working routine,
the participating students would then be able to write such value
and aesthetic view into their body and form a permanent architectural
memory of their own.
The kind of attitude and spirit that Interbreeding Field has accentuated
is in fact corresponding to the constantly changing or transforming
Nature and cityscape. How does one conduct a communication and interaction
with the matrix and, furthermore, to enrich the latter? Or, in the
process of breeding new architecture, how is it to maintain the
interlinkage between the newborn and the matrix as well as the ecology
of the earth by insisting a natural, healthy environmental process?
Both have been the major concerns of the Interbreeding Field.
Multiple "Structural Relations" and Unceasing Experiment
on the "Man-Materials" Interface
When it comes to the agenda of balancing the multiple "structural
relations" between man and materials for a balance, such as making
architecture as one that is capable of dwelling the sky, the earth,
the divinities and the mortals altogether like the late 20th German
philosopher Martin Heidegger has highly aspired, it is the task
of every member of the Interbreeding Field to turn back to him/herself
by unceasingly searching, experimenting, adjusting, revising and
exploring, in order to reach a balance among humanity, materialistic
technology and natural environments.
The main structure of Interbreeding Field as the matrix of a framework
is to assist the students in building a referent for self-positioning.
As every generation of the students may differ and vary, what they
bring along or implement may also create change, alienation or even
mutation to the matrix and its atmosphere in general. Meantime,
Interbreeding Field as the matrix would have to respond and adjust
to the new context as well.
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