Mist Encounter is the competition-winning project of Program X-site hosted by Taipei Fine Art Museum. The project was designed and installed by Ling-Li Tseng + Wei-Hsiang Chao, along with Min-Shan Tsai, Kai-Jui Tsao, and Chen-Chi Lo, who teamed up to form Serendipity Studio, in collaboration with KWA Architects for detail development and construction. The pavilion forms body awareness with mist and creates the consciousness of air conditioning renovations in the Museum. The constantly changing mist gives the unseen air flow and conditioning a comprehensible form, also lets human bodies perceive ambient changes. Mist exhibits itself between layers of mesh and structures- where one can observe how the flow of mist, with the changes going from blurred to a cleared boundary, and penetrative or concealed view.
The summer sun and breeze will drift in and animate the scaffold and mesh structure. An indistinct mist will arise from the outer square and draw visitors to come closer. As visitors walk from the outer to inner square, they will be gradually enveloped by the mist, and things will appear and disappear as the mist alternately gets heavier and lighter. The effect will be similar to an experience of passing through a heavy fog in a magical forest.
Breathing in the moist air while standing within the foggy Mist Cone; gazing at the misty flow while sitting within draped hammock chairs; having a conversation through the occasional shroud of mist in the courtyard-- are the experiences of visible/concealed, public/private, and natural/artificial. Within the layers of spaces, the expression and experience of mist can be captured differently every moment, which makes Mist Encounter always- in progress.