Wetland promenade extension proposal

Location Yunlin, Taiwan Team independent

Initial sketches showing a new external circulation that changes how the rooms are experienced

Experience: Wetland promenade

Reorganizing a preexisting house into a “sequence of galleries” via the extension

Experience: Wetland promenade

Wetland promenade extension proposal

This extension proposal began by thinking of how the rooms/gallery spaces were to be experienced. Instead of all the rooms being accessed by the original central stairwell, they were reorganized into a “sequence of galleries” via the new external circulation extension, which wrapped around the original house’s perimeter. As a result, visitors are no longer confined within closed spaces but weave between the galleries and the scenery of the adjacent wetland, blurring inside and outside.

Home-stay proposal No. 1

“Wetland promenade” was an extension to a preexisting stilt-house situated by a wetland. The brief was to present a design scheme to convert the house into a gallery space, however, I do not believe a mere interior operation was sufficient for such a transformation. I was concerned about how the rooms/gallery spaces were to be experienced as a whole, since their composition was never for that purpose. This led to the idea of reorganizing the rooms into a “linear sequence of gallery spaces” via an extension. The intended experience was cultivated intellectually and thus able to be comprehended and experienced by all.

Experience: Wetland promenade

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Experience: Home-stay No. 1

Home-stay proposal No. 1

This was the initial proposal for “Labyrinth.” The plan was to erect a secluded home-stay on the small, awkwardly situated site, adjacent to the street. However, the biggest challenge was not in the site condition but the subjectivity of “secludedness.” The solution of “traversing from the noisy street to a quiet private garden via a disorienting tunnel” strives to create this sense by seeking recourse in the rationale, utilizing purely formal operations to achieve an experience that is tangible and comprehensible to all.

The guests arrive via the garage, and as the gates close, they are drawn in by faint lights shimmering ahead, revealing a flight of winding stairs. Heading up, the guests find themselves in a narrow tunnel and realized that the shimmering lights were lights filtered from the trees and penetrating through a small slit in the wall. Upon exiting the tunnel, the guests are surprised to be amid a forest and no longer by the street. Turning left, they are met with a two-stories tall gateway which they pass through quickly, leaving behind the forest and retreating to the safety of a private garden. Two more left turns later, they finally arrive at the entrance, disoriented and completely cleansed of the outside world. It is as if they had arrived at the heart of a place far removed from the world. A “serene” place.

Experience: Home-stay No. 1