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Rewriting Fluidity: From Enclosed Abstraction to Chromatic Openness

Project by Alex Ching-Chen Liu

In Toyo Ito’s original conception of White U, fluidity was imagined as an inward and abstract movement—light folding through walls and spaces looping back into themselves.

This project revisits that idea through three speculative renderings that re-stage White U within new spatial and emotional conditions. What if the notion of “fluidity” in this house could be rewritten?