[Exhibition]: IEAGD Architecture Graduation Design Exhibition
[Exhibition Link]: https://ieagd.com/works/2026/
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Student: 李哲逸 / LI ZHE YI
Project Name: 未被書寫的地景-60年垃圾山修復計畫 / The Unwritten Landscape: 40-Year Trash Mountain Restoration Project
Project Link: https://ieagd.com/works/未被書寫的地景-60年垃圾山修復計畫/
台灣選手作品介紹 選手：李哲逸 LI ZHE YI 作品：The Unwritten… – IEAGD 建築系畢業設計國際展覽 | Facebook
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Design Concept:
Human beings naturally seek nature and reject waste. Yet, at the same time, we continue to throw waste back into nature. Over time, these growing “garbage mountains” have become surreal landscapes. They are not only physical barriers but also psychological ones, deepening the separation between human society and the natural environment.
This project explores how architecture can redefine the relationship between people, waste, and nature. Through strategic design interventions, it challenges the traditional view of waste facilities as unwanted infrastructure and transforms them into shared landscapes. Architecture is no longer only a closed processing machine, but a connector that repairs damaged land and ecosystems by making material recycling and energy transformation visible. Beyond environmental restoration, this project aims to rebuild social awareness and environmental ethics, turning an industrial burden into a sustainable community asset.
For many years, this site has quietly received the city’s excess waste. Because it is located outside the urban area, people have chosen to ignore its existence. As a result, the landfill has continued to expand, replacing green land with a mountain of waste. This situation is not unique to this site, but is happening at many temporary waste storage sites across Taiwan.
The project introduces two main programs: an Educational Recycling Center and a Community Warm Bath Center. The Recycling Center represents a new way of dealing with waste by changing the old linear system of landfill into a circular recycling system. It also serves as an educational space, helping the public understand how waste can become valuable resources. The Warm Bath Center gives something back to the local community. After the garbage mountain is removed, the pollution that the community has lived with for years is transformed into renewable energy, providing a place for bathing, relaxation, and social interaction. Through this process, waste is no longer seen as a threat, but as a resource that supports both the community and the environment.
Student: 李昕霓 / HSINNI LEE
Project Name: METAMORPHOSIS.變形記-蟲蟲格雷高爾的救贖之旅
Project Link: 台灣選手作品介紹 選手：李昕霓 HSINNI LEE… – IEAGD 建築系畢業設計國際展覽 | Facebook
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Design Concept:
This work adopts the form of an adapted literary screenplay, centering on a first-person narrative and a director’s perspective to transcend the established boundaries between literature and architecture. The textual structure is adapted from Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Hermann Hesse’s Demian, while interactively dialecticizing the feminine literary imagery from the works of Shakespeare, Haruki Murakami, and Anton Chekhov (namely Lady Macbeth, Midori, and Nina). These characters serve as spatial metaphors and projections of binary oppositions, meditations on sin, and moral dilemmas within the youth coming-of-age experience. They represent the consciousness shift and confinement of an individual facing persecution and the intrusion of boundaries, translating and debating spatial forms through philosophical, sociological, and psychological lenses.
In terms of spatial strategy, this project aims to explore the correspondence between literary texts and architectural spaces regarding texture and scale. Hovering within a magical realist atmosphere, it constructs and documents a spatial vehicle for human emotional memory.
Regarding the screenplay’s structure, Gregor—the insect from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis—is chosen as the protagonist. Along this insect’s life journey, the utopian realm no longer exists; he must traverse an endless, arid, and perilous wilderness and cross the abyss of solitary original sin, ultimately achieving destruction and rebirth to attain redemption and freedom.
At its core, this work seeks to pose a question to the audience: “If a human transforms into a giant insect, do we still deserve to be loved by society?” Perhaps society holds no place of belonging or love for outsiders and those who have lost their social utility. Yet, through creation, I hope that the “Elephant Men” of this world and the insects of The Metamorphosis will no longer be alone. As long as films can still be shot, stories can still be written, and spaces can still be designed, you will all exist—and you will never be forgotten.
