BRAIN HACKING ARCHITECTURE ? Seeking for access to the unconscious realm of un-planning

This small hotel project is located on Penghu Island ? the main island of an archipelago in the southwest Taiwan, where the blazing sunlight and breathtaking landscape never fail to astonish its visitors. Bluntly standing like a bunker ruin or a rock mass bulging from the earth, the 8mx30m concrete box envelopes a hypercomplex space unimaginable from its unpretentious outlook.

The shapes of two main elements that defines the interior space ? i.e., the undulating slabs and the winding void vertically cutting through it ? are both taken from the shapes of EEGs (Electroencephalograms, a.k.a. ?brain waves?) actually recorded from the client and the architect at the project site, using a handy BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) tool.
Applying EEG to architectural design may sound quite bizarre, or even like a cheesy sales copy ? but it is actually an outcome of the team?s earnest effort to go beyond the constraints of intentional or rational planning practice and step out to open a new spatial/sensual realm in architectural design. What has come out as a result is the small but unprecedentedly unique configuration of mass and void, which could have never emerged otherwise"

Intensified by the brutal touch of rough, non-finished concrete that indistinctively covers the entire surface, the building has obtained a sort of coherent complexity that echoes the essential characteristic of a livi...