Yoshino eki (2012)

Yoshino train station was the only terminal located in Yoshino village, the biggest Japanese colonial village in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation era. From 1930 till 1980, all the cargos and villagers traveling through eastern Taiwan travelled through the Yoshino station.

The house shown in the picture was a freight station attached to Yoshino station.  In 2009 the government planned to demolish the freight station against the owner's will in order to proceed an urban plan designed 30 years ago which no longer correspond to current context. The inconvenient truth was that the local government was eyeing on the profit from carrying through the gentrification plan set 30 years ago. The 2009 event, including a movement lead by me in preserving the historical housings subsequently became the prequel of this graduation design thesis that you see here.