ka`s architecture

HOU CHIA HENG (KA-HSIANG) Tunghai University Architecture (2015~ NCKU M.ARCH2 (2020~

第一章 the first chapter

個體與群體 individual and community

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106學年度上學期 建築設計習作1 AUTUMN 2018 ARCH Design 1 + 2020 ARCH Design 1 Advisor: SIN,BO-YI . LIU,SHUN-JEN . HSUEH,CHENG-LUN

集合住宅 Self-Determination Housing

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

CONCEPT & BACKGROUND

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informal construction

DWELLING SPACES

單身

家庭 私人

fuzzy boundary

COMMUNITY SPACES

co-evolution

SOCIETY SPACES

co-working

郵局

lounge

社區中心

遊戲室

7-11

戶外平台

托兒所

公共廚房

社會局

It is a common problem for the most of building systems to ignore the different lifetime between people and buildings , especially , like the changing of family populations and functions . This issue makes troubles that influent the ways users interact with their own space hugely , and there isn`t any certain principle , knowledge and material that users could follow and deal with spatial requirements which usually change in their lifes . In order to fix the space-changed problems , users started to build their houses in informal ways , like combining different materials simply or constructing without any clear planning . We can call those buildings like “ informal extensions” which cause messes to urban developments and expansions.

To make sure that each space`s development c o u l d m e e t u se r s ` e x p e c t a t i o n s , i t i s necessary to record habits and properties among the community and society , and those include schedules of different life styles 、ages、 genders and populations.

公共

1.clear systems of technique 、 material and recycling and workshop

Following many modular systems and the cases of Metabolic, all I wanted to design aren`t complete buildings , but a flexible building system,which is associated with workshop and main factory,and prototype to make residents be able to plan their own spaces orderly and satisfy their requirements.

With that system`s helps , people couldn`t only plan their housings by themselves, but also product furniture and interior decoration with the remainder materials recycling from constructure waste .

2.relationship with public spaces and social interaction

Ⅰ SERVICE TOWER

Ⅳ WALLS

Ⅱ STRUCTURE

Ⅴ WINDOW

Ⅲ fLOORS

Ⅵ PERSONAL EXTENSION

3.relationship with public spaces and social interaction Helf pubilc

Personal area

Common public

Public extension The users could decide how to apply and decorate public spaces ,after they discussed or decide in other democratic ways .At the same time , they are also allowed to rent those empty areas to run business or personal functions ,like coworking space or personal clubs , that behavior makes living situations diverse.

After all , the records would affect the way how neighbors decide to use the public areas or social activities , and accord those data to divide public areas into different hierarchies among each layers , especially in landings in staircases where are usually ignored by most people and are full of potential chances to be brought up better social places .

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cartoonist`s home

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cartoonist`s studio

第二章 the second chapter

物質與構造 material and construction

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107學年度上學期 建築設計習作1 AUTUMN 2018 ARCH Design 1 Advisor: 簡志穎 CHIEN,CHIH-YING

無窮的慾望 被限制的實現與感知最終型成㇐種服從在日常 的限制之下脆弱的連結 , ㇐種薄冰上的掙扎

薄冰上的掙扎 攀升慾望 感知 與 實現 間的平衡

The camel`s back before the last straw

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

CONCEPT & BACKGROUND

Statement The ancient Chinese said, “as if on the brink of an abyss,as if treading on thin ice”. For all of the advantages of human ingenuity and intelligence, it still pays to be respectful and cautious when met with the power of natural forces and the environment around us. Although people still tried to show their own ability to fight the natural principle many times, each experiment was done carefully, or they would have been destroyed when they were out of balance of nature and lose control. For example, in the hole bible, The Tower of Babel was built by the arrogant human kind who had ambitions to show their power and carry higher, and they believed they could overcome anything and problems whatever they met. Without any correct effective construction skills and experiences, the tower started crashing down, and so did the humans` pride.I want to seek the sense of the moment before the break the fragile balance and maintain it. It seems to be like the feeling of what is like people say “ the last straw that breaks the camel’s back” and present “ the camel`s back before the last straw “ in the architecture practice.

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At first, I try to build a fragile structure model and look for the keypoints of “the last straw”, so I recorded some materials` detailed conclusions after had the stress test.

Trying to figure out relationships among every conditions, the most important of them are materials` deformations when they resisted the gravity in the test, and it also plays an important role to show people`s desire of against the gravity and the fragile situation whatever the materials were.

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SITE : Chianan Skyscraper

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I want to re-create this building and take it as a spirited manifesto to bring up a desire of seeking for “the last straw”, which would be like a new Tower of Babel、a utopia of ambitions and sense.

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Once , there had been a group of arrogance humans and had planned to build skyscrapers and showed off ambitions in the economic miracle period of Taiwan in Chiayi city, but unfortunately, they met the financial problems and lock-off resources, and then, they were forced to give up the building and the tower still is in ruin, like lost religions or crashed temples.

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Project Definition I started to combine those frail devices which are made of iron sticks 、 concrete and wood boards, and tried to make the structure frailer. According to the results and experience in the experiments, I built a rule system to show how every condition assemble and cause the results similar to “the last straw”, and didn`t only associate fragile conditions together, but also deleted those conditions making the structure model firmer, after my observation, all of the conditions could be realized as causal relationships.

A ELEVATION 01

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To me, desires are coming from seeking infinite pleasure and sense,and in order to satisfy more desires, people use tools and materials to buildup or magnify what they look for so long. However, people must not be able to overstepthe balance between physical and imagination, and it is the only way to touch anedge of “the last straw” and create an extreme feelings, like treading on thin ice carefully.

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110 暑期 修行 建築設計操作 - 競圖 SUMMER 2021 Design

WE-BUILD TIMBER SYSTEM A reversible and flexible modular system with timber for community and nature The honours to get Lexus Design Award 2022 2nd Place Award - Taiwan One of Top 16 - Internation

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

2021 Asia Young Designer Awards Bronze Award

CONCEPT & BACKGROUND

“How will we live together?” was asked by Hashim Sarkis at the 2021 Venice Biennale, and it has become a core principle. I endeavor to address this question through “cooperative construction for community and nature.”

In ancient Japan, the skill of construction was considered as gifts from the gods; in order to memorialize this, the people have rebuilt and renewed the Ise Grand Shrine to transmit those skills every 20 years (called the “Shikinen Seng ”). At the same time, they have constructed the shrine with new materials to replace the old materials, with the spirit of respect of the builders; and the old materials are shared with other shrines to build deep spiritual connections among forests (nature), the shrines (places) and workers (community).

Using that idea, I designed a flexible and reversible construction system which common people are able to operate and plan in spaces of diverse dimensions without professional tools and skills. I believe that tith that building system, people may build greater and more meaningful relationships with society and the environment when they collaborate with each other in the building process.

The first edition design in SPOSAD workshop

Through such collaboration, people can build significant interaction within communities and help each other toward their goals, while also building relationships and offering daily assistance. By physically participating in the building and using reusable materials, they may also understanding how important sustainability and environmentalfriendly ideas are, making materials and construction a medium over which the spirit of environmentalism may be conveyed. And in addition to the sense of achievement and satisfaction when they participate in construction, they also learn basic construction skills and ways to improve their own lives at home.

Common people could build spaces together safely and stably without professional skills while also making meaningful economic interactions for society with their spaces through the building process and emotional connections through feeling and memory. Furthermore, construction is neither an easy nor a clean process; so in a society in which the results of labor are divided and capital is both diluted and expropriated, the necessary daily efforts and feeling of accomplishment of the self and the group will give people a sense of happiness. And if this concept is magnified to nature as a whole

With reusable construction at the core, this modular system is not only able to be reused many times, but also is able to be operated for other flexible and spatial purposes with diverse assembly. In addition , the system uses prefabricated timber, so it is light and small compared to other construction materials and small in volume when taken apart, making it so people are able to deliver it and build with it easily .

終章 graduation thsis project

神性再塑

Re-Imagined Spirit of place

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109 學士畢業設計 SUMMER 2020 GRADUATION Dsign Advisor: 簡志穎 . CHIEN,CHIH-YING

神性再塑 - 人造海岸與離岸風廠的感知再現 The second translation of nature spirit and wild wind

The honours to get

International Exhibition of Architecture

Outstanding thesis design of THU in the

Graduation Design-Exhibior

academic year 2019~2020

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

CONCEPT & BACKGROUND

Statement "These are the gods who have passed out of memory. Even their names are lost.

The people who worshiped them are as forgotten as their gods. Their totems are long since broken and cast down. Their last priests died without passing on their secrets.

"Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."

-《American Gods》Neil Gaiman It is very indistinct to connect contemporary thoughts or life situations with realizations of local religions and divinity,but you can`t doubt the relationships between them which were responded to each other with symbols、objects、materials or activities.

If the divinityor ideas of religions couldn`t satisf y i mag ina tion s o r ev olve in the contemporary,they have been crushed down and been abandoned by people who need redeemers with clear connections which have been decorated in current technology、ideas or imaginations of the famous.Accordingto my experiences and news, there are many conflicts and differences between traditional religions and a model society and ideas, and you could see unpleasure among people, those follow the ancient principles, when their beliefs face challenges and critique from the new spirit of the time. We may take the divinity and religions as a kind of spiritual and abstract conclusions of times which represent most of people`s understandings of society、 n at u re、g e og r ap h y an d h i sto r y t h ose really influenced a lot at that time.In Jean Baudrillard`s 《Le système des objets》, we could find out some potentials those people worship technics or objects in now day because they are bringing great power and chancing visions of the world, and each older vision would be replaced by coming totems and idols.

SITE : Changhua Binhai Industrial Zone

Project Definition Conceptual This architectural project is located on the coast of Changhua city where are usually changing geographical features a lot,because of constructions of infrastructures, and those events also have changed imaginations of geography and local spirit. In the recent, the government plan to construct coast wind turbines farms here, and the relationship would be evolved again, and so did the spirit of place. All I want to present may not be a temporar y installation to show my obser vations of the phenomenon in the site, but may build up a story about interactions and casual senses among the infrastructures、nature and people, and try to create a personal comprehensive view of this design essay, after those concepts were translated again and again.

The new divinities or worship objects around the site : 1 . enormous machines: the wind turbine farms are going to be constructed here and change the environment to the local residents who used to make a living on fishing. The fishing grounds would be disappeared, that makes living situations and custom change a lot and theresidents would be forced to serve these infrastructures which will bring electric power to the others. It is contradictory that most environmentally friendly power plants would cause crashes of local lifestyles and are unusual things to the locals.

2 . wild wind: to the most of people`s experiments, the wind is tamed by constructional skill, and it couldn`t show real effects like in wilds, so people don`t usually understand powers of real and wild wind.

In the fact, the wild wind is very powerful, so that itcan operate huge machines – wind turbines on the coast, and the engineers tried very hard to make sure wind wouldn`t destroy wind turbines, or they wouldn`t hold when the wind was out of control. The only thing that humans can do isn`t lookingfor an absolute way to control the wind, but keeping revering for this all-mighty being

Analysis 0 : Methodology It is difficult to describe straightly when people meet beings which are out of daily experiences、holy、ancient and abstract, especially in myths、fables or philosophy. be isolated

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3.translate or transform

Therefore, people would have tried to use similar objects and daily experiences to describe, and those imaginations may be very excessive. I think this process may work on observing geography details in this architectural thesis and be translated to a new concept of design.

Analysis 1 : Shape of wind

At the firstexperiment, I tried to build an intuitive and sensible recognition of wind,and I imagined wind like a movement of an air cube. I invented a series of devices to shape personal imaginations of wind, and take the records as the basement of describing senses.

Analysis 2 : Re-imagine

The second step, those records were translated into animated graphics with coding language (Java and grasshopper), and every result showed different characteristics of wind on the site, which reflected imaginative situations when the wind blows and crashes into the buildings in this region.

Analysis 3 : Interaction

Wind will play an important role in this area further, and I started to create extremely fragile structure models to look for the way how to interact with the wind. In normal considerations, it`s necessary to make building firm to resist the wild wind, but I make a choice that I take the wind as the main idea and make people`s lives on the wind, and so do the architectural activities. This design would be a long story talking about interaction among people、the wild wind、the coast and the infrastructures for 100 years.

The story starts from asymbol of resisting the coast wind – windproof forest, which protects theindustry

In 2035, the windturbines farms had been built up as people`s predicts, and they started getting power from the wind and serving those infrastructures built on the coast. They used the wind power to operate the whole machines in the wall which was changed into offices of organizations of those wind-power industries. The local divinity filled full the entire infrastructures with electric power and changing of the local geography.

In 2050, the wild wind won`t be a threat to the local objects and become one of the concepts to construct architecture, and it would be possible to build the structure with the wind`s flow. In my imaginations, the people would build up a town and get used to living with effective from the wind,and inserted railway and stations resulting from the future institutions will be represented as the friendly relationship between artificial objects and the wild, nature and a new idol in this period.

In 210X, because the wind turbines will have been dismantled and the people may find out a new way to generate electricity, those infrastructures will have been abandoned like whatever had been built and replaced on this coast when they face generations changing.

外章 master workshop project

INTERNSHIP MINIWIZ & AS STUDIO 原型結構 & X-SITE 高鼎翔建築師

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INTERNSHIP MINIWIZ & AS STUDIO 原型結構 & X-SITE 高鼎翔建築師

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

MINIWIZ TRASHPRESSO 3.0

AS STUDIO 原型結構 木構大巨蛋

Project Definition In order tocreate good interaction between timber spaces and citizens, building public infrastructure, like an activity center or dome, is an easy way to let people know benefits of timber.

X-SITE 高鼎翔建築師 - 入入口

外章 short chapter

短歌

workshop & practice

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104學年度下學期 建築設計習作3 SPRING 2015 ARCH Design 3 Advisor: 游麲 YOU,SYUAN

可 攜 帶 式 空 間 portable space

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

操作教學

Demonstrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIKwX0ThKN4

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107 學年度暑期 工作營設計習作

SUMMER 2019 Worksop Design

The campus is one part of the city , and the citizens could be a part of the campus

RE-IMAGINED SPACES Wall or not Wall

東海大學建築系 Tunghai University Department of Architecture 侯咖享 作品集 Portfolio Hou Chia Heng

CONCEPT & BACKGROUND The concept comes from the change of Beijing`s city wall , the walls protected city from others attacking , but now , it become useless. In the past some modern architects made some images , and wanted to change the imagement of the walls into other functions , like a city park.

It makes me think about my school , Tunghai university also covered by the long walls . The relationship between campus and citizen are different The idea comes from the words said by Cicero : if you have a garden and a library ,you have everything you need .One is social place ,and the other one is personal place

Marcus Tullius Cicero :

GARDEN + LIBRARR =EVERYTHING Material

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The conversations don`t only happen in relationship of the planning , but also can happen in relationship of section and landscape . Each function has different ways to combine with garden . some of them interact in version , sound or human`s action.