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REPRODUCE THE LIGHT OF THE SEA

REPRODUCE THE LIGHT OF THE SEA

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Daylight investigations - Region 4: Asia and Oceania

Students
Gao YAN
Qi Shixiao

School
Hogeschool Zuyd

Country
China

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REPRODUCE THE LIGHT OF THE SEA“The world is so big, I want to go out of the mountain and see the sea.”In many areas of China, there is a group of villages: they are surrounded by mountains and the scenery is charming; but they are isolated from the outside world, as if the Peach Garden in Chinese legend. The youth in the village usually go out to work, leaving the children and the elderly in the mountains. For these left-behind children, they are full of confusion and suspicion about the future. The long-term separation from their parents makes them suffer from psychological problems such as inferiority and loneliness. Obviously, they need spiritual support. In our survey, we found that many of their parents would choose to work in coastal cities (coastal cities are usually more economically developed); the sea has become their sustenance for future hope. A little child told us expectantly that when he grew up, he wanted to go to the beach and make sure whether the sea is as beautiful as that depicted by his parents from the phone and broadcasted on TV. Based on our experiments on the improvement rammed earth materials and its connections with light, we eager to bring hope to the children by constructing a ‘sea light’ public seat.