Architect HSIEH Ying-Chun has conducted many post-disaster reconstructions in Taiwan, China and Southeast Asia in the past 16 years. Facing the different and difficult social, geographic and climatic condition of each project, Hsieh has initiated three key principles for commencing his work:

1) Collaborative construction - survivors should rebuild their own houses with limited intervention of professionalists;
2) Adoptable and affordable technology – applying easy assembly reinforced light-gauge steel system with nuts and bolts; and
3) Open system – steel system easily commenced with different kinds of membranes and functions of each house.

In response to the theme of “Freespace” in 2018 Venice Biennale, Taiwan proposes that architecture could transform a place, which can be achieved by every architect. With such belief, Fieldoffice endeavors to write stories about seeking freedom via architecture. As far as Fieldoffice is concerned, “freedom” is not an intangible nonsense, but actually leading a daily life that they are willing to stay within a 30-min drive sphere to dedicate their architecture work to helping people lead a better life and reconnect the bodies with sky, water, and mountain.

Fieldoffice’s ‘countryside urbanism’ will be exhibited in three parts:

a. Condensing social memories: interventions via time
b. Setting a datum: canopy as the new reference line;
c. Returning to the land: continuum in suspension of time.