Abstract:Variability is a problem that modern public buildings need to solve when expressing new monumentality, essentially a way for time factors to intervene in architecture. The concept of artificial“ruins” answers the image question of modern symbols, through the memorial nature inherent in the form and the variability brought about by the juxtaposition of different times. Environmental management technology can contribute to these“ruins”or serve as the logical basis for their form. On this basis, this paper focuses on how modern and contemporary architects, in the context of new regionalism, rely on passive environmental management technology to use the acceleration of time to realize the realistic“ruins”, and use the superposition of time to represent the abstract“ruins”.