DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
: Lithosphere design as a work in progress
DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
: -Emphasing the power of landscape morphing in a new heart of development
-That people feel in another world when they cross the park
DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
: To realize the drawing as near as possible
DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
: 3 years and always evolving under construction
DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
: -As we are working in a tropical humid climate with regular earth work and hard climatic condition so we need to deel with such kind of condition in a gentle way
-We follow our inspiration
DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
: It is unique and stay unique : no duplicata
DI: What made you design this particular type of work?
: It was an international competition we won
DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
: We work together with philippe rahm more involved in furniture and architecture
DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
: No ressembling
DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
: It means that it always change as connected to life condition as our body is always in movement
DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
: Trace and pencil. Then all devices to develop a large project and especially xxx with transsollar
DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
: Accepting change as a design process
DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
: Transsolar, atelier LD, Bollinger & G
DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
: Comfort simulation and capitation of real condition
DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
: -The climatic variations of the site through computational fluid dynamics simulation (CFD)
-The models were developed by German firm Transsolar who used ANSYS Fluent software
DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
: Langages and construction tradition in Asiatic country with other way to manage decision with political heritage
DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
: Philippe Rahm ask me to organize a team as representative and team head
As Sanaa ask me for Louvre Lens
As Jourda ask me to do Botanical Garden
DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
: Work on a very large scale, invest huge infrastructure like bridges and tunnel, work with another cultural tradition and discover Taiwan heritage