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(F)UNESCO MASS PRESERVATION

Scale 1:4 Portion of Facade

Mold casting technique

The prototype portrays the physicality of the replications through the construction process. Each generation of Casa Mila will apply the different technique of construction, but as (F)UNESCO aim to create mass preservation, the method of constructing will be mass-produced. The technique of mold casting was applied in order to make a series of facade panels, where you could cast the same shape and copies for several times.

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Hedonistic Infrastructure: Scammer Paradise - Fake Monk

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(F)UNESCO MASS PRESERVATION

Has preservation become a dangerous epidemic? (F)UNESCO critiques towards UNESCO, the definition and method of preservation by creating an objection through (fake) mass preservation and replicas of Casa Mila. In the fact that Casa Mila has always been renovated, conserved, and froze from the 1980s, (F)UNESCO emphasized that preservation is an act of obsolescence. The manifesto of mass preservation reflects the amount of UNESCO protected (fake) cultural heritage all over the world. A global phenomenon in which heritage has been sanitized and lose a sense of identity that the building accumulates over time. Replications are one of the methods to preserve architecture theory and style, in modernism, architects have been applying techniques in construction until today. The notion of copy and paste contemplates the role of architects in the future, where machine learning, GAN, become tools in itself as a copier and designer.

Shenzhen Mila House

“Hi, welcome to Shenzhen city, I am the 2nd Generation of Casa Mila. 

I provide you a spatial experience of the Catalunya 20th-century household lifestyle and atmosphere, designed by Antoni Gaudi. 

I will  PRESERVE the culture for new generations and I will remain UNCHANGED.

(F)UNESCO

Exactly, UNCHANGED,

We are (F)UNESCO, we have an intention to PRESERVE  historical heritage

To retrieve the 1st generation of Casa Mila in Barcelona from its decay

PRESERVATION give infinite experiences

PRESERVATION prolong the existence of cultural property

PRESERVATION occurs everywhere

and Casa Mila will be POPULATED

GAN

Yes, that’s right, POPULATED

Hi, welcome to Bangkok city, I am the 3rd Generation of Casa Mila.

Hi, welcome to Hong Kong, I am the 4th Generation of Casa Mila.

Hi, welcome to Favela, I am the 7th Generation of Casa Mila.

Hi, welcome to Brooklyn, I am the 10th Generation of Casa Mila.

Hi, welcome to Mexico, I am the 20th Generation of Casa Mila

Hi, welcome to Favela, I am the 35th Generation of Casa Mila

Hi, welcome to Paris, I am the 50th Generation of Casa Mila.

Hi, I’m Generative Adversarial Network, you can call me GAN, I’m a producer from (F)UNESCO

I was trained, I kept data, I analyze data, I saw different languages and perceptions, I am stored in with thousands of information, the VPN is categorizing my memory.

I make FAKE clones

I know how to REPLICATE BUILDING

I produce generations of Casa Mila, I populated the MASS OF PRESERVATION.

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(F)UNESCO MASS PRESERVATION

After the decay of Casa Mila at Barcelona, (F)UNESCO establishes the method of preservation to retrieve the heritage as PRESERVATION gives infinite experience, PRESERVATION prolongs the existence of cultural property and kept the building UNCHANGED.  PRESERVATION is going to occur everywhere as (F)UNESCO is populating Casa Mila. With the intervention of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) an Ai system as a tool to replicate and generates generations of Casa Mila to be situated globally.

GAN is the network that was trained with data set to generate random noise to new output or producing cloning, with discriminator is another network that detects realness and fakeness in generator output, it sent feedback to the generator. The loop makes the generator understand components and could produce the replicas of the input. In architecture, GAN could identify components of buildings and objects through the analysis of data and are able to produce spatial configuration, furniture, exterior appearance, surrounding site, and situated locations.

The data set are categorized base on the VPN address of each city that replicas of Casa Mila will be situated. Each VPN code provides a different data set of Casa Mila and cultural housing base on different contexts. In which GAN could generate diverse typology and design of Casa Mila with an alteration of degree in fakeness. For example, Hong Kong Mila house,4th generation, is 40-story high and unit size is approximately 20sq meters which related to its local context of housing.

The generations of Mila house are having particular degrees in fakeness in its form, furniture, spatial configuration, exterior, and an appearance generated from GAN. However, each generation also has different degrees in construction as well. The use of material and technology involved in the construction altered base on the fakeness degree of the replicas’ generations by using lighter, cheaper, and faster techniques.

In fact, (F)UNESCO has developed the methodology of FAKING PROCESS since the tragic decay of the original Casa Mila by faking the falsification in order to question UNESCO the method of preservation. The FAKE mass preservation, replications, and GAN were to reflect the mass of FAKE estate and heritage UNESCO has been renovating and recreating to preserve FAKE culture and monumentality. (F)UNESCO is criticizing UNESCO the value of cultural heritage and open up the Ai system, GAN, where it could potentially design and create a building without architects. So what’s the value of preserving RECREATED cultural heritage?

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Hedonistic Infrastructure: Scammer Paradise - Fake Monk

The site are located between two distinctive type of space, a commercial and civilized Ratchaprasong area and a low-rise community which are hidden between high buildings.

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Hedonistic Infrastructure: Scammer Paradise - Fake Monk

Fake monk is one of the distinctive subculture that emerge from a distorted religious practice in Bangkok, where these are people who take advantage of the situation and use religious in commercial field. The objective of the proposal was to create and offer alternatives to fake monk for them to achieve hedonism.

The key identity of this subculture is dependent, individual, hidden, and scam. There are specific time during the days where fake monk stay hidden and exposed. They are exposed and bending in public when they scammed people, and they stay in low or hidden community to avoid curiosity from getting caught. After all, what they need or want is not just money scammed, but it is a fundamental of life to guide them and empowering them to stop scamming.

The program design are located on the site condition related to their normal routine, where they interact at both public and private space. They use public space as an opportunity to earn income and create business.

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Visual and Sound Meditation -  Fake Monk Therapy  

Visual and sound meditation performed scenography space for long time length meditations. It is performed through interaction between pedestrian that pass through the device by stepping the lotus floor pad.

The walking movement form an animated moving fractals, mandala, or nature scenery. To give meditator relaxation and concentration. The lotus pad cause sound gamma wave hertz in different tone from 132hz to 624hz which help self-awareness, psychic abilities, and higher insight.

When they meditate, they still see a little surrounding as they will feel uncomfortable if they are fully detached from outside world.

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Snapshots - Fake Monk Routine

Looking through the routine and places that fake monk go in a day. The meditation pod is the only place in their day that they could stay with themselves and detach from society. As they have to hide to eat and sleep everyday, the pod provide is a comfort zone, therefore is strictly set that they could attend only once a day for meditation only.

The pod are located on asoke high traffic street, where there are nearby school and office building which will give effective processing of offerings. Nearby temples which bend in between fake monk and real monk. Three transportation including car or bus, sky train, and boat. They would prefer to attend mediation in the early morning before school and working hours.

Other time of their day aside from meditating for an hour. They would find a hidden spot or place where less people wander around to avoid curiosity and getting caught from being fake monk. Which is commonly under the bridge, street corner, gap between building, small soi. The place they stayed overnight are usually at transportation station, as it is common that people sleep over waiting for bus or train in the morning.

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Affective Device - Fake Monk Therapy

Fake monk is a group of fraud that take advantage of religious to scam Buddhist for money. Most of them become fake monk due to unemployment or just release from jail. As this subculture are fraud, the proposal are against this illegal activity. The scenography space will give fake an experimental through meditation tasks which is one of the mindful effective therapy that could change mental issue people and misbehavior people to change their personality.

The proposal system and protocol are intentionally for fake monk. However, this group of people have to spend their everyday life wandering around cities. Most of them doesn't have residence or place to stay overnight, where monk wouldn't go around the city along the day, they would walk out in the morning for alms only. So the meditation pod also allow real monk to participate as normally they meditate anywhere anytime as usual, this proposal give them space and at the same time bend fake monk without curiosity into society.

The space aim to provide a therapy to increase mindfulness of fake monk. The mindful meditation take at least four month practice. There are three stages of meditation as they are beginners in meditation, first stage are simple lotus pose meditation. But as the time length gets higher, it is more challenging, where visual and sound meditation are performed to get rid of boredom.

The ideal posture of meditation are lotus pose, as it help to lock the posture of leg and back and could be sit for a long length of time. Meditation is the balance between relaxation and concentration. The posture are important factors, as they might lack concentration due to uncomfortable on posture. According to the fact of meditation practice in Buddhism, there are no strict posture, but should be aware of distracting and lack of focus through body movements. They should choose a pose that will keep them in place for a long length of time, moving a little is fine.

The site location of pod have effect on the process or system of pod. As the main goal for fake monk is to earn money and food. The protocol is to attend meditation according to the tasks of four month practice and everyday they will receive an alms offered by people that pass through the pod. With the name tag, it would indicate what could offered on certain day. The tag also keep track of monk schedule by scanning code.

Surrounding site also affect meditation, as noise caused distractions. The pod are designed with two layer of pneumatic dome ring to capture noise through membrane in between which avoid it to access through the meditating space. However, more crowded area also have higher rate of alms offered to monk. Pedestrian and people offering that walk pass have interaction with the pod. There is a sensor that track people walking pass and use the movement to create an animated visual fragments and sound hertz for meditators.

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Distorted Buddhism - Cultural Clock

The daily routine of Buddhist, I focused on city workers who have busy schedule. Where offering alms in the morning become common activity before they attend work. Where fake monks see the opportunity and would walk near business area streets to collect alms and money from people. By using monk's cloth to scam people. At this point the cycle are distorted by fake monk interaction, how, when, and where they approach to the Buddhists or working people. Aside from fake monks, scamming merchants also take advantages during national religious holidays, due to crowds, more random merchant break in.

The cycle time loop presented the daily routine, monthly activities, and yearly events. The representation of interaction between guru Buddhist, Buddhist, and scammers, how each groups engaged through different events and time in a year. Which showed a point where different groups meet, when, and how.

The interaction between gurus and Buddhists are common occurred at temple on national events For example, during Makha Bucha day, most Buddhist would go to ceremony at the temple where it will be crowded than usual, which will affect the gurus as they will get distracted by people who take photos.

The daily routine of gurus are 70% meditation and the rest of the time are typical routine. Where they could meditate anywhere at anytime of the day. In one month, there will be four day of Buddhist holy day where they will be more strict to practice and go to temple.

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Distorted Buddhism - Identity Map

Through history timeline, Thai have practice Buddhism since 307 B.C. and have been influenced throughout Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, and Rattanakosin era, which is Bangkok today. In 21st century, people start to detached from traditional practice of Buddhism due to distorted teachings and believe that have been establish by new group of people who use advantages of religious in commercial field.

There are three groups of people in the cycle, including Guru in Buddhism, typical Buddhist, and scammer. Based on the actual believe and practices, to make or offer merit to received blessings, it should be from inside, be mindful, and follow Five Precept of Buddhism. Meditation is the most important practice that Buddhist should do as it helps meditators to have mercy, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

New generations misunderstand the practices and believe that money is the key to offer merit. They believed that making merit is like investment, the more they offered the more they receive blessings. They use religious as a tool to presented themselves to look good in society using social media. They tend to focus on taking photos and posted on social media to show that they went to temple and offered huge alms. There are many components that Buddhist could make merit or offer alms. Which leads to religious fraud and scammers, which include fake shrine, fake monk, and merchants.

Fake shrine promoted new belief or opposed belief from true Buddhism in order to create long-term trust. Which is a continuous scammed, where they could gained millions of money from people. While fake monk is individual monk that commonly walk through street nearby temple area for alms collecting in the morning, which is derived from traditional beliefs. Lastly, the merchant who raise price of offering elements especially to tourist group by using Thai sakyant, food and flower basket, birds and fishes, amulets and images.