




Discussion of the basic relation between man and earth-including issues as reconstruction of the horizon and continuity of spatial flow-gives access to the void of primal meaning in architecture. By re-adjusting the horizontal surface and under technological transformation we can gradually discern a fragile architectural phenomena in nascent form. In the development of this rediscovered world, we must try to drag, displace, and twist the state of man and matter. More important is when the surface unexpectedly rises, kneading its hot surface of multi-dimensions like a pastry, repeatedly folding and layering, pressing, twisting, turning, slapping, and rolling flat, producing a crisscrossed substance of complex accumulation with tenacity of height and subtlety of structure. In this way, matter loses its clearly defined boundaries, at the same time keeping its pressed surface cuticles hidden in anonymous soft substance or substance-like volume.
As a kind of pastry-like factor, man is intermittently kneaded and chafed with the earth in his temporary stay. This highly sensitive and excited state forms a projection of perception and impact of consciousness, and tears open little space for accommodation within unconscious realm. Architecture is thus not just a placement of being. But it intends to become a tear or annex of being or to expand and wander. It would be better to say that it is an opportunity for non-existence; an unknowing openness. Sentiments for and preservation of a place ultimately show their fragile support in the cracks. Though man¡¦s basic environmental needs are extremely simple and rudimentary, there is almost no need to walk the side path of spirit and matter. This path leads to an empty and unobservable vista; in one sense seeking the magic of salvation, in another sense approaching the enticements of hell, finding a new map of the world in an ambiguous unconsciousness.
In this state, cities are likely to develop a pastry-like spatial relation. The shuttling flow of people and matter should facilitate the rise of delicate media guiding the flow. These media will often be non-material, invisible, trans-conscious connections. Traditional transportation and communication will become mixed in a non-visual space and time. Dwelling style can be adhesively intertwined with surface, sky, and manmade objects, and not necessarily exist in boundary and direction, to the point that it will no longer be dependent on gravity; not by resisting the power of nature, but rather with an attitude of acceptance and tolerance and by deviation of living modes. Society will share the similar structure to rid itself of core and hierarchy. Softened in the status quo, we will no longer need slogans and tribal banners. Because we will no longer have the problem of identity, multiple identities will also be abandoned. From identity and non-identity the accumulated amalgam of identity will form a renewal of social ideals and unlimited reversal of humanity.


