A Research on Memorial Architecture and Expression of Emotional Space: Take Memorial Architecture of Siaolin Village as an Example

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the motivations for people visiting memorial architectures and to analyze the expressions of emotional spaces in Siaolin Village Through the architectural designs and the emotional spaces in Siaolin Village people could have the same experiences with the villagers when the flood came The term “memorial” could be tracked back to the earliest activities of human being Memorial architectures was built when people started to construct buildings for living The differences between buildings for living and memorial architectures was that memorial architectures were the pursuit of spiritual needs According to various purposes memorial architectures could not only be the houses but also could be buildings tombstones statues and to name a few With time passes by the trend of architecture had been changed from formalism to narrative perspectives Due to the changes people could have a deeper thinking while mourning or commemorating Beside the research on the memorial architectures the study also put lots of efforts on the dark tourism Through the theories of dark tourism this paper also discussed the attractions of catastrophic spaces in order to find out the purposes and the feelings of visiting disaster-affected areas Taiwan is located in the junction of Eurasian Plate and Philippine Sea Plate; therefore earthquakes happened in Taiwan frequently Except earthquakes typhoons also hit Taiwan during June to September However people in Taiwan lacked for preventions of typhoons In 10 August 2009 Taiwan was hit by Typhoon Morakot which caused huge destruction in Taiwan especially in Siaolin Village a village in Jiasian Kaohsiung Facing the loss of relatives and the fear of disaster the villagers who escaped from the flood which was cause by Typhoon Morakot still had to move on and rebuild the village Taking Siaolin Village as the subject in remembrance of the tragedy caused by Typhoon Morakot the rebuilt village tried to create the same scenes when the flood occurred By doing so it could not only let people have the same experience with the victims but also preserve the local historical sites Furthermore by having a deeper understanding of the disaster people could reflect on the ignorance of Mother Nature

Date of Award	2021
Original language	English
Supervisor	Kwang-tyng Wu (Supervisor)