Kaleidoscopic internal Spaces

(above, Kaleidoscopic internal Spaces, drawing)
(below, the Regent Palace, Hotel under constuction 2009)

According to the chosen site, the Regent Palace Hotel, which is still under construction (2009-2012) (Figure 19), people are able to see the demolish situation inside but remain the old façade outside. This drawing (Figure 20) represents inner parts of the building reconstructed via a verity of interior constitutions such as doors, curtains, toilets, rooms, decorations, and lobby and so on in the hotel. The internal power of this building keeps combining interior elements together. Therefore, viewers are able to redefine or re-imagine the interior of this hotel from stereotypical historical images and perceptions.

After taking apart the interior elements of this historical hotel, the distorted mages blur the boundary of different spaces. The definitions of rooms, toilets, shops, kitchens, lobbies and so on are none existent anymore. Just like the under construction site, the preserved façades is the meaning of “The Regent Place Hotel.”

And when the chaos and mess factors are combined, the combination provides a chance to inspect the relationship of interior and exterior, architecture and cityscape. The internal architecture could be treated as a collector or generator, which contains cityscape, memory images beside physical objects.