XINLONGSHENG CDA
HAKKA FANGKOU LION ART DISPLAY
Amid the constant flow of the city, an art installation reborn from marine waste quietly stands among the crowd.
It is not a cold assemblage of materials, but a memory retrieved from the shoreline and given new form.
As regenerated textures and colors enter the rhythms of everyday urban life, traces of the ocean return gently to our sight—
reminding us that sustainability is not distant, but unfolding along the most familiar commuting paths.
ABOUT PROJECT
The Xinlongsheng CDA – Hakka Fangkou Lion Art Display is located at a major circulation node within Technology Building MRT Station. In the midst of the city’s fast-paced daily movement, this public installation—reborn from marine waste—exists quietly yet deliberately. Rather than presenting sustainability and culture through didactic messages, the project seeks to integrate them naturally into people’s visual field and daily routes. The work is not only an art installation, but also a subtle form of environmental education that unfolds through everyday encounters. Each passing moment becomes an opportunity for public space to serve as a starting point for understanding sustainability and cultural heritage.
Public Art from the Perspective of Everyday Sight
This project begins with the concept of “everyday sight,” rethinking the role of public art within the city. Waste materials collected from the coastline are transformed through regenerative manufacturing processes into recycled marine boards, which then become a medium capable of carrying cultural imagery. These materials ultimately take shape as a three-dimensional Hakka Fangkou Lion.
Unlike conventional public artworks often placed in outdoor cultural sites, this installation enters the indoor public circulation of an MRT station. Commuters, residents, and local communities encounter the work naturally as part of their daily movement, allowing sustainability to be not merely observed, but felt and understood.
Yellow civil lion
Green
martial lion
Cultural Extension of the Sister Lions
The design concept extends the cultural lineage of the Changlong Village Green Lion, introducing the idea of “sister lions.” The Technology Building installation features the mother lion (the civil lion), symbolizing gentle guardianship and cultural depth, while forming a visual dialogue with the Green Lion (martial lion) in Changlong Village. Through placement across different neighborhoods and urban contexts, the Hakka Fangkou Lion is no longer a singular point, but gradually unfolds into a cultural pathway that connects daily life with heritage across the city.
The Hakka Fangkou Lion is characterized by a rounded upper head and a squared lower jaw, symbolizing the ancient cosmology of “round heaven, square earth.” The forehead bears the character “王” (king), representing imperial recognition, while tung flower motifs adorn the cheeks—expressing the spirit, craftsmanship, and aesthetic richness of Hakka culture.
FRESH GINGER
YELLOW
PERSIMMON
ORANGE
This installation is constructed using recycled marine boards, precisely CNC-machined to define the structural contours of the Hakka Fangkou Lion. For the first time in Taiwanese public art, full-color digital printing is applied to recycled marine materials, allowing Hakka patterns and symbolic colors to be rendered with fine detail on the regenerated surface. This achievement marks Taiwan’s first public artwork to employ full-color printing on marine-waste-based materials.
This technical breakthrough not only demonstrates the high adaptability and potential of marine waste materials, but also enables sustainable materials to truly enter the city’s main circulation routes—becoming cultural carriers that commuters can approach, understand, and remember in their everyday lives.
The recycled marine boards are produced from certified marine waste—such as discarded fishing floats and polystyrene foam—combined with selected land-based plastic waste. By reducing the extraction of new resources and minimizing material waste, the project embodies a fully recyclable, low environmental-impact production approach.
A total of 13.61 kilograms of recycled marine material was used in this installation. Materials once regarded as waste are reinterpreted through design and fabrication, completing a full circular translation before returning to the city as a sustainable practice that can be continuously replicated and extended.
65 %
Recycled Materials
25 %
Ocean Waste Materials
10 %
Elasticity Modification
Comply with the three global sustainable development goals (SDGs)
PROCESS
From material collection and recycled board fabrication to form development, CNC machining, and full-color printing tests, the creation of the Technology Building Fangkou Lion was an ongoing dialogue between material, culture, and site. Every texture, machining step, and assembly process serves as a tangible validation of the possibilities of recycled materials—allowing the work to accumulate its own story and warmth even before taking its final form.
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Let the ocean’s second life become part of the city’s everyday landscape.
When regenerated materials enter public space, they are not merely reused—they quietly shape new cultural memories within daily life. We believe that every reborn material can spark a dialogue, reconnecting the ocean, the city, and people’s lives, and opening up new possibilities for culture, design, and sustainability in the future.