本論文是對於物質的使用態度提出看法，即「物質不決定它的命運」。第二生命的意思即下一個生命，而生命的意義在於建立新的價值。能建立多少價值基本上是由使用者決定的，因此有多少下一個生命，基本上是無窮的。
每種東西會做什麼都是在這時空當下的一些因緣際會造成了它現在的命運，但不表示它就只能做這件事。社會下的使用定義給了物質第一或第二，或是有用或是無用。垃圾是社會意義下的定義，其直接的意涵即「無用之物」。然而，這個負面的意義卻有正面的啟發。當「無用」之物能轉變成「有用」之物時，「垃圾」便不再是廢棄物，而成了「資源」，物質也就有了它下一個生命。物質不區分自己，就像天上的浮雲或是落下的雨水，生生不息，只是相態的不同，物質本來就有各種的面貌。以這個觀念看待材料、器物乃至於空間或都市，世界將是豐富多元且充滿皺摺而不是扁平、單薄、單一目的。
本論文選擇了酒瓶，樹枝，土，朽木，檳榔桿，檳榔葉做為營建的材料。並同時思考這些材料成為建築時與土地的關係，即共生的觀念與活性系統。

This thesis discusses about the attitudes toward utilizing existing substances, arguing that " The materials do not specify its own destiny."

Explicitly, the word "second life" means next life. A life devotes itself to making unprecedented value. However, it is on the user rather than the substance itself to decide how much value will be made. Therefore, as long as there is a user, the recurrence of lives going on shall be unlimited.

Every things came to being at certain space-time with specifi c opportunities. But this is not the end. Our society defi nes the substance to be the first/ the second, otherwise useful/ useless.

Waste is conceived as something that we don't know how to use. The notion invites reciprocal thinking: there is no such thing as waste as long as we do know how to use it, which leads to another beginning.

Materials do not delimit their forms and meaning themselves. They appear differently under different circumstances. The water, sometimes appears as clouds in the sky and other times it turns into falling rain. Therefore, from small things such as utensils, to large scale of architecture even the built environment are no longer flat nor simple anymore, rather, they implies a world of wrinkles with abundant variety.

In this study, glass bottles, tree branches, soils, rotten wood, stems and leaves of the betel nut tree are being selected to be the foundamental substances for architectural construction. And yet meditate the relationship between architecture and the land, proposing a concept of co-existence and active system.

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