Consumption of Abbreviations
PROGRAMME
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE
STUDENT
LIM ZI YUAN
YEAR
4
ADVISOR/TUTOR
Wong Chong Thai Bobby
Amidst the rise of consumption and production, we are becoming addicts of information. Between the endless cycle of producing and exhibiting, the audience is doused in a sea of individualism. The future is a space for production and exhibitionism. A space that is dedicated to the information addict, where one can see everything, abbreviate
As the Fordist era decomposes, an industrial machine of a bygone generation stands. We are left with a remnant of an urban carcass – dehumanizing in scale yet sublime in other qualities
Through a sea of incomprehensible vastness, this new architecture highlights the individual and the self. In a metamorphosis defined by a new mode of consumption, an urban carcass is recomposed, by the individuals who repossess it.