los angeles CALIFORNIA
California College of the Arts
Critic:Chris FALLIERS and Thom FAULDERS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Victor SUNG: In planning for and keeping up with an explosion of urban growth, the Chinese government is encouraging the spread of a very quickly built, uniform field of residential towers.
- Victor SUNG, “The Monster Island ( All different scales_architecture).”, Axon
- Victor SUNG, “The Monster Island ( All different scales_architecture).”, Axon
- Victor SUNG, “The Monster Island ( All different scales_architecture).”, Axon Chunks
- Victor SUNG, “The Monster Island ( All different scales_architecture).”, Axon Taxonomy
This fast development often ignores traditional architectural and urban typologies like the hutong fabric and often ignores natural features like rivers and canals while encouraging the rapid modern fabric.
The architectural challenge for this is how to keep up with increasing urban density, but acknowledge and evolve traditional and modern architectural forms and images. To do this, we need to rethink how modern typologies and traditional typologies can be rethought in the contemporary city, especially the relational aspects between historical, modern and natural elements.
This thesis proposes an expansion strategy to overlap and merge different modern and historical architectural figures, creating ‘monsters’ in new multiple architectural images. Furthermore, this thesis is critiquing the style of modernism and fake historicism to propose this monster tactic. Though odd mash-ups of typologies and acts of exaggeration and deformation, and an architectural language emerges, one where the traditional, modern, and natural reappear within evolved forms.
These architectural tactics, the making of monsters, is about layering and compositional instrumental ordering to create a figure-figure city (or a monster mashup) initiating an urban field full architectural figures between real estate infrastructure and between the past and present.
