Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank.

Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank. by Chang Kyu Lee from korea

designer's own words:

Life is defined through a composition of senses, deposited and withdrawn as memory. Sense memory bank is the place where experience and re-imagination are the influential and transformative values used to engage with the past, present, and future of humans and city. Sensory experiences are the element of re-imagining for bereavement and remembrance. Also, they are an identity for the deployment of value through perceived and experienced fragments of visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and chronoceptive forms of memory.

Visual memory, for example, is when the shape of an object is revealed as light falls upon its form.
Auditory memory is extremely concentrated under the ‘darkness’ condition. An olfactory memory is activated by the air flow in chemical particles that are received through the nose. Gustatory memories are the transformation of an object’s taste through various types of liquid states. Tactile memory is the instinct of human beings, or most direct way to delivered memory to human. Chronoception is a form of representation through personal memory and reminiscence.

Programs are articulated by the filtration of light, air, and water from the city’s atmosphere. A laboratory enables senses to be deposited and produced, and then retrieved in a shared sense garden.

One cylinder represents one family and contains 3-5 capsules. Each capsule is a container for the ashes of one person. Once the capsules in one cylinder are full, the cylinder is poured into a pot. And vegetation will grown from this pot. As more cylinders are emptied into pots, the building will slowly return to being visibly lit again.

Integrating human remains into buildings connects individuals to one another and to the larger system of nature. This cycle of depositing and withdrawing allows for loss and grief to be reflected in a density of accumulated illumination and shadow.

Within an uncertain city, Sense memory bank collects the subtle sense of vibration from the deceased.

Life is defined through a composition of senses, deposited and withdrawn as memory. Sense memory bank is the place where experience and re-imagination are the influential and transformative values used to engage with the past, present, and future of humans and city. Sensory experiences are the element of re-imagining for bereavement and remembrance. Also, they are an identity for the deployment of value through perceived and experienced fragments of memory.
Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank.
Visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile and chronoception memories.
Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank.
Programs are articulated by the filtration of light, air, and water from the city’s atmosphere. A laboratory enables senses to be deposited and produced, and then retrieved in a shared sense garden.
Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank.
One cylinder represents one family and contains 3-5 capsules. Each capsule is a container for the ashes of one person. Once the capsules in one cylinder are full, the cylinder is poured into a pot. And vegetation will grown from this pot. As more cylinders are emptied into pots, the building will slowly return to being visibly lit again.
Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank.
Integrating human remains into buildings connects individuals to one another and to the larger system of nature. This cycle of depositing and withdrawing allows for loss and grief to be reflected in a density of accumulated illumination and shadow.
Re-imagining Death In An Uncertain City_Sense Memory Bank.
Within an uncertain city, Sense memory bank collects the subtle sense of vibration from the deceased.