NCKU M.Arch II

Nowadays, most of our understanding of a city’s space starts from photos. The photos of the same space are mostly from the same angle and scope, often ignored the deep meaning of history and culture behind it, and only staying at the superficially beautiful photos . Therefore, even Tainan, which is known as a cultural and historical city, faces such a situation. We have no shortage of space with deep foundations, but how to find a non-commercial and interesting way to reappear the "invisible city" and construct a real and virtual co-existence city is the topic that I want to discuss.

I explore the co-construction of real and virtual cities from three scales: the large scale organizes the concepts and ideas of the real and virtual co-constructed cities in a narrative way; the medium scale is to construct a set of methods to extract and analysis urban context; the small scale uses "reality game" as one of the ways to read the city.Through the extraction and analysis of the front-end, the "Old Five Channel’s Cultural Zone" was finally selected as the practice field. The temple culture here is prosperous and closely related to the context of urban changes. While urbanization, it also leaves a wealth of historical traces.

I take the temple history and texture changes in the Old Five Channel’s Cultural Zone as the main text design axis, and design interactive modes (wayfinding mode/AR mode), walking paths, game interfaces, etc, to construct an urban reality game “Ramble in City" as the carrier of the reproduction with the "invisible city" and let players (users) intervene in the city in an approachable way. In addition, I hope that the game can be used as a city detector to collect information about the city through the interaction of tasks during the game. It is also the value of this game as a basis for city improvement in the future.