War X Wall X Water - 重構中東難民生活日常

Students：Cho Hao Wu
Project ：War X Wall X Water - 重構中東難民生活日常
Tutors ：Kwang Tyng Wu
School ：National Cheng Kung University

I think, war is all about absence.

War is the most serious reason of causing the damage of both artificial and natural landscape in nowadays.It is the contention of petroleum, water and political power, death and flee became Middle East people’s daily life.

The sarcastic thing is that petroleum is one of the most important resources that establish the middle east, or even the world, but what it represents, the wealth and the power have contrasted strongly with most of the people’s life in middle east.

The sarcastic thing is that petroleum is one of the most important resources that establish the middle east, or even the world, but what it represents, the wealth and the power have contrasted strongly with most of the people’s life in middle east. I think living in refugee camp is an acute lost of the sense of distance and space which are established between coordinates. This kind of break leads to the absence of “daily life”.

Refugees only can live in the tent which is 3X4 square meter. The three different layers emerged because of the war, including the heavy smoke caused by burning oil fields, the potential landmine zone, and the petroleum floating on the water. These enormous / tiny layers break the connection between human and nature.

I bring the waste hot water from refinery into refugee camp through the pipeline, within the airdrop package I designed, refugees can easily build up the simple heating system by themselves. At the same time I build up a rammed earth wall, trying to establish a reference point in camp. I put several programs at both sides of the wall, including public / private, social / independent. The wall will be built up by all refugees, and its material are collected from the waste soil in camp and the pallet from supplement cargos.

Refugees will go back to their hometown eventually, but wars are not predictable. All the temporary shelters will be removed after refugees leave, but the infrastructures I set up will stay underground. People can easily build up a proper refugee camp in the future when there’re other wars happen.The rammed earth wall will gradually collapse, within three different stage, and leave nothing at the end,those infrastructures will leave silently underground, reminding people the countless damages and lost brought by war.