Ziwei Wu

Inspired by Bernard Tschumi’s deconstructed buildings of Parc de la Villette, his reinterpretation of architecture in the form of fragmented space, and the resemblance between film and architecture, Mountains May Depart proposes that movie scenes can be reconstructed through a process of dissecting their mise-en-scenes, compositions, atmospheres, camera movements, and narratological features.

The design takes the protagonist’s regret from the movie as a clue in creating a dream world for him, using a new temporal structure, narrative construct and spatially. The building is where the story takes place. The elements and characters in each scene are to be cinematically discovered in the film in parallel with the theme of each scene and the realization of the character's dream represented according to the new spatio-temporal narrative.