The Vanishing of Evolution
Gold Prize
Name of Winners：
Yong-Jun Hu、Yi-Song Zhou
Instructor：
Bo-Ren Zheng
Name of School：
National Taichung University of Science and Technology
Location of School：
Taiwan
Postmemory — a memory not personally experienced, yet constructed through mediation and imbued with real emotion.
Argenna, located at Zhengbin Fishing Harbor in Keelung, embodies a fragmented history of construction, abandonment, and reuse. Its discontinuous past has made its recognition as a historic building uncertain, only formalized after partial demolition in 2016.
This raises a question: beyond preservation and destruction, is there another way to sustain memory?
By placing a massive lid over Argenna, wind becomes a medium through which reconstruction and destruction occur simultaneously, rendering the ruin controllable. Through spatial and mediated guidance, visitors construct postmemories—never experienced, yet emotionally real.
As the physical fades, Argenna persists and evolves through the continuous generation of postmemory.
