Voyeuristic Shophouse
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Site Analysis
There are many defunct, abandoned shophouses. Young people doesn’t want to live in it anymore, while the old still does. By introducing these programs into the shophouse is for to revive the shophouse for it to be able to function again at full capacity of it’s potential. Originally the building itself only have dual function, as a resident and a shop but there are still surplus capacities waiting to be used.
Too revive it, the shophouse itself will contain programs that are normally not found in it. By introducing multi-functionality, the shophouse becomes a system of shifting where the programs activates different time of the day.
The system is to sequence the programs activate at different times of the day, simultaneously for each floor. The building becomes more autonomous. The system would consist of human powered shifts and automatic shifts.
Too revive it, the shophouse itself will contain programs that are normally not found in it. By introducing multi-functionality, the shophouse becomes a system of shifting where the programs activates different time of the day.
The system is to sequence the programs activate at different times of the day, simultaneously for each floor. The building becomes more autonomous. The system would consist of human powered shifts and automatic shifts.
Map of Yaowarat
Analysis of 5 sois of Yaowarat to extract behavioral pattern in the duality of the shophouses. Photos were taken at designated sois from 9am-13pm and at 11pm.
The photos are condensed into smaller sets of photos located in each of the 5 sois to compare different time of the day of the shophouses.
Observation translated into plan and section diagrams. The diagrams are to display the shophouse behavior more clearly.
Proposals of the of how it can transform into multi-functional shophouse from normal dual program shophouse.
Nat Shophouse Research "User and Transformation"
The research of the shophouse is based on the Southern Chinese eclectic style during the 1840's to the 1900's. The physical appearance is 2 storeys with a simple facade. The building material are very simple materials that are easy to acquire, which are timber, clay brick and lime. This shophouse is located in Penang, Malaysia called the Ah Tong Tailor and due to my own father being a malaysian and I had spent some years in Penang mostly during my childhood years so this is why I chose this one over the Thai. The Thai typlologies are very much more simplified version of the more older shophouse that it had derived from so I thought it would be more interesting to look at back more of the origin of the shophouse.
Besides exploring only the typologies of the shophouses, this research then also explore a small part in the user and the transformation of space inside the shophouse. The exterior of the shophouse remains unchange whilst this research tries to explore more of the interior. So by introducing different types of users, the space then would change according to those users, exploring different types of transformation from less to more radical change.
Nat's Documentation and Post-Analysis on THE WATCHE (R/D)
Personally for me, 'erotic' is something that is more of a psychological state of emotions rather than something physical. Emotions affect our minds in ways that we cannot perceive visually but consciously and unconsciously in our minds. Erotics can have positive and negative effect which is something we would 'feel' more than see. Erotic can provoke many kinds of emotions and these emotions that occur can last in an infinite duration while physical properties are finite. I can't say that erotic is only one thing but many, in many diverse forms of emotions such as desire, guilt, love, pain, something that arouses and stimulates emotions which doesn't have to be sexual related. But erotic has a certain degree of connection between many kinds of emotions, some more than others, the most would be something that is sexually stimulating.
How your projects experiments with/achieves/explores your definition of the erotic as it pertains to architecture?
Eavesdropping and non-venereal voyeurism is hardwired into us. We have an evolved appetite for information about the personal and private lives of others.Humans are not alone in feeling a need to listen to the conversation of others. The desire to eavesdrop, voyeur is stronger ever than before in the digital age. Technology provided us humans with more tools to invade the private lives of others, delibrately and not. For example mobile phone makes us all inadvertent eavesdroppers. We don't necessarily want to be intimate with other people's intimacies but it’s in our nature to do so sometimes unconsciously, through facebook, the desire to eavesdrop has become insatiable. We've become very good at this stuff because the fact is we cannot imagine a world where this sort of behaviour is not possible."
My installation allows the audience to experience the desire to infringe on others privacy and also have theirs privacy invaded too. The audience enters a room full of lamps attached on a wall and placed on the floor to signify CCTVs. The lamps brightness is to show the cameras coverage and also the uncomfortable feeling when looking straight at the light bulb so the people would normally try to avoid, similar where people would avoid CCTVs becuase they feel that they are being watched. The number of the lamps also express the CCTVs watching in the room. All of this is to fabricate a feeling of intimidation and uncomfortablity of the CCTVs where people are being watched by some other unkown observer.
The audience are also provided with a projection of recording of CCTVs on a large wall where they would be able to obersve on some of the areas of the faculty and anticipate what’s happening in each screen. This is to provoke the desire to watch, obersve and gain a comfortable perspective of voyeurism where the audience is able to obersve with ease of whats happening in the CCTV screens without the people being conscious of being watched. To show the maximum experience of voyeurism. They are also unaware of who is watching and as a result the behavior of the people is suppressed
The Work Of Nat - Nathakit Sae-Tan
This image explores the materiality and the contrast of colors in the scene. The wood being built above the plants represents the quality of the wood of something heavy and hard and the plant being soft.
This image plays with the perspective of the image with the v-shape of image from the corner of the building and also the color contrast. The v-shape already gets you to think about the female reproductive organs. The contrast represents hormones with nature; the sky being able to manifest severe changes in weather such as rains, storms, tornadoes represents the raging hormones in erotics.
This image is more straight forward to the meaning of erotics. The image looks like a scene where when you see it you thoughts would automatically induce sexual thoughts of what may have happened already or what could have yet happen.
The reflection of the sky in the glass of the building denotes the erotic thoughts being reflected in the glass.
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