Have you ever reconsidered whether people’s current layout is appropriate within this ever-changing landscape? The relationship between Mount. Ali and human’s behavior through not only sequential perception records but the discussion of the infrastructure, habitat, forestry, tourism, time-space development of ecology, and even the sense of worth.
A century ago, the mechanical layout of the forest and iron track was outdated, yet people continued to build tunnels, mountain tunnels, etc., so as to maintain the former track. The construction site has been replaced the view of the area of Cross Village in Mount. Ali for approximately 13 years since the Morakot typhoon. Herein, I start considering about how could we make effort to be more friendly to the mountain? What is the truly appropriate way to get along with the mountain? All my expectation is to lead people way back to our Mount. Ali.
Through the field investigation, I plotted every single path belonging to the Cross Village area and further recorded the necessary functions and period for people to shuttle into the mountain. The aim is to reflect the Mount. Ali, which has been destroyed by mechanical distribution through the track of humans. Therefore, the humanities and the space of time erased by the construction of “All Lines Open to Traffic” could be brought back.
This project reconnects the naturally disconnected railways with a walking scale. Through micro-arrangement methodology, natural restoration makes the time of the landscape perceptible. People can perceive the contours of mountains through instinctive mountain climbing, including the primary forest varies with the altitude, infrastructure delivery process, and land events designated by natural disasters. Only if the Alishan Forest Railway does not be repaired until it is open to traffic, the former path can no longer be a passage, but existing an instinctive perception of “getting off”. People can get familiar with the contour of the mountain again, that mountain coincides with the human in both time and space. All in all, the mechanical layout is overturned, and the tacit understanding between humans and the mountain is reborn.
