Printed Images on Library Facades: The Entire Building as a Printing Plate

The entire exterior wall of the building—including concrete bands and glass bands—is printed with the same set of repeating images, transferred onto the material surface using silkscreen and acid etching. The images are taken from newspaper and archive photographs, processed with halftones, appearing as coarse black dot arrays up close, and coalescing into recognizable scenes from a distance. The entire facade thus resembles an enlarged print, with the building's horizontal banding becoming the lines of print. This work pushes "facade as medium" to its extreme: there are no signs, the building itself is the printed content. Shot with oblique side lighting, the close-up view shows both halftones and material, while the distant view presents the image. Avoid: images printed only on parts, halftones too fine losing the print feel, adding text or logos, material not participating.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

整棟建築的外牆——包括混凝土帶與玻璃帶——被印上同一組重複的圖像,以絹印與酸蝕的方式轉印到材料表面。圖像取自報紙與檔案的翻拍,經過網點化處理,近看是粗大的黑點陣列,遠看才聚合成可辨識的畫面。整面立面因此像一張被放大的印刷品,而建築的水平分帶成為印刷的行。這件作品把「立面即媒介」推到極致:沒有招牌,建築本身就是被印出來的內容。斜側光下拍攝,近景讓網點與材質同時可見,遠景呈現圖像。避免:圖像只印在局部、網點過細失去印刷感、加上文字或 logo、材質不參與。