“The modern transformation of the house produces a space defined by walls of (moving) images. This is the space of the media, of publicity. To be “inside” this space is only to see. To be “outside” is to be in the image, to be seen, whether in the press photograph, a magazine, a movie, on television, or at your window.” — Beatriz Colomina

Architectural image has increasingly become a speculative medium to address cultural and political conditions. By tracing the relationships between the historic legacy around representation, and perceptions as evolved with contemporary techniques, this thesis questions the creative process of an architectural image, and its effects on spacial experience. a reverse method in the making, the installation is a placement of observations via means of objects, everyday traces, architectural elements, and etc., which is then recorded and constructed into architectural drawings.

PEOPLE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE SEA, A DIRECT, LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE CHINESE PHRASE 人山人海 (REN SHAN REN HAI), USED TO DESCRIBE CROWDS. A MORE appropriate translation might have been a sea of people.