Lost & Found – Invisible Witness in Camera Street

Cities are attractive because of the distinctive differentiation generated by people. However, the distinctiveness might become neutral when certain things change over time. Is there a new way of reimaging those areas that are being identified as ‘left over’ or ‘surplus’?
The project focuses on discussing the relationship between architecture, urban areas, and the camera industry per se. The camera industry brought urban vitality into this place, holding periodical exhibitions for local people. However, it only remained in the fantasy for now due to the changing habit of ‘capturing moments. What if we considered “architecture as the camera”, disassembling the city into pieces of elements, replacing, moving, reversing, and reassembling the ‘meaningful fragments’. In between each wall, the desire, and impression of the camera street would be disclosed by people through the new reproduction landscape.

-The Lost: The Gate, Time Tunnel, Red Wall Texture, Image of Camera Street-

In front of Taipei Old North Gate, there was a paradise since the Qing dynasty along the north link railway, a street remains clues about the development of Taipei city. Mrs Celebrity said,” I can imagine that the corridor and light bring me to nowhere, but one piece of land that can see the living from far away to my side.”

-The Lost: Historical Axis, Hidden Alley, Back Yard, Residential connect the front-

Do you hear the small rustling sound from the camera repair shop? It’s the city’s humming. The barriers in front of the entrance are gone, and the small alley is connected with the front by the open-up rare windows. The sky is opened, nature comes in, and the alley revives again.

-The Lost: Storyteller, Reading with the City-

This is a city that collapsed, folded, or vanished behind the modern economic façade. However, people who live in should be half-glimpsed or dream, that the city reconfigures itself, yielding suddenly as you walk past camera street.