SUBSEQUENT CONTINUITY CHIN-YU TSAI SELECTED WORKS 2005-2014
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Chapter II : Social Response P.19
Chapter III : New Technology P.39
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Chapter I : Visual Contact The selected projects in this chapter are a series of attempts to reorganize space based on construction of visibility. Visual contact is one of the basic human senses that trigger a person’s emotional and physical reactions. The ways in which we act is dependent on our visual surrounding. Our actions link together to become continuous stories, much like a rolling film. Architecture has always played the biggest role in our daily lives as the main stage for acting stories.
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Project Introduction
Original Kiosk
Lobby
01 The Kiosk
- YEAR: 2005 - TYPE: Kiosk of THU Architecture Department - SITE: Taichung, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Academic studio project
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The Kiosk, operated by seniors, is one of an interesting tradition in architecture department of THU. It severs drinks, light food on core studio class days, and probably the most helpful service is reselling materials for model making till mid-night before every class day. The given issue was to relocate this kiosk at an ideal place inside building of architecture department, and expanded its services so it would not only serve the depar tment internally, but also welcome external people to come in. In order to achieve the best effect, I chose to relocate the kiosk at one of main entrances of the department building, where allows double sides visual penetration from both end and across the section of the building. The events that happen here will become attractions like gravity pulling much more people to join in. Thus we can maximum the potential interactions that triggered by this kiosk's function.
Enlarge visual contact
View from lobby to Courtyard
1F Plan
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02 Life Fields - YEAR: 2008 - TYPE: House - SITE: Taichung, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Academic studio project
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Project Introduction The project site is located at a newly developed residential area near Taichung Technology Park - the biggest area of gathering high-tech industries in midland Taiwan. The project house is design for a young couple who both cooperate with the nearby technology companies as product designers. They are seeking for a house which could combine their working studio and living spaces. The privacy needs to be well coordinated between often visit customers, friends and their daily lives, but without creating too enclosure space since the site area isn't adequate.
Bath Working
Sleeping Working
Entertain
Sleeping Gallery
Bath
Atrium
Kitchen
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Entertain
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Exisiting house plan
High intensity of space forming Program A
Activity fields
Recomposition
Low intensity of space forming
High intensity of space forming Program B
Design Concept Housing pattern is a strong influence of dwellers’ relationship. The composition of spaces and rooms form the stage of people's interaction. Modern residential houses are mostly composed by connecting separated rooms with corridors. Activities are bounded within rooms with fewer connections with others. Through this project, the attempt is to break through these boundaries of traditional Taiwanese houses and create a visual merged space, but keep the same spatial relationship.
Visibility plays a key role in this project. It is acting as the main joint of bonding programs together and creates continuous scenes of client's life style. Iconography study of visibility
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A. Foyer B. Living room C. Theater D. Dinning & Kitchen E. House gym F. Bedroom G. Gallery H. Reading section I. Studio J. Bar K. Swimming pool (Share with neighbor)
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Before renovation
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Project Introduction
03 Life Fields 2 - YEAR: 2014 - TYPE: Private studio & Classroom - SITE: Taipei, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - NOTE: Personal work, interior
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T h i s p ro j e c t i s a re a l i z a t i o n a t t e m p t extended from my academic studio workLife Fields. The requirement was to create client's first personal studio of education. On the weekends, studio is functioned as a study room and classroom focusing on providing junior high and senior high school students' education of physics and math. On week days, it is used as client's personal working space. Sometimes both will happen at same time. The main challenge is how to divide the limited space according to the demands with acoustic isolation between 2 main spaces (classroom and working space) but also have spaces visually wide enough to deliver cozy atmosphere.
High intensity of space forming Classroom
Low intensity of space forming
High intensity of space forming Meeting space
Design Concept
1. Foyer 2. Kitchen 3. Meeting space 4. Reading & Waiting 5. Classroom 6. Studio 7. Existing bathroom 8. Existing storage
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04 Stories Interchange - YEAR: 2007 - TYPE: Taichung film archive center - SITE: Taipei, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Academic studio project
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Project Introduction This project was issued to plan a local film documentary center. The facility includes programs both formal film collection and citizen/tourists attractions such as theatre, lecture hall and cafe. The site is located in between two residential street houses on east-west side, pinched by main road and a court yard space on north-south direction.
Individual story line rolling
Multiple lines conjuncted
From plaza Purposed visit Passing by
Conjunct multiple story lines
Design Concept The site is like a pinch of surrounding area which plays an important role of determine how people coming in and out of the plaza from the main street. The concept here is to create an interchange space that conjunct the activities coming all around the nearby surroundings but still keep the clear passage function that allows people to pass by. Thus, all the stories that happens here will have chance to cross with each other’s.
Programing study
Connection study
MACHENICROOM
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EXHIBITION
THEATER
THEATER LECTUREHALL
CLASSROOM
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SHOP LIBRARY & OFFICE
LIBRARY & OFFICE
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Lecture hall
The long sides of building facade are all designed with transparent materials in order to keep the horizontal visibility maximum. Thus, each activities happens inside different space could possibly been seen by others. Even the passing by people could have visual contact with the ongoing events as he/she is passing by a huge urban stage which multiple scenes of different stories are playing vividly.
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Cinema
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Library / office
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Chapter II : Social Response Social hierarchy and physical boundary of space is often used as a representative means to create distinction between activities, social class and relationships. In this chapter, I explore architectural design as one method of breaking down social and physical barriers between people. The aim is to find a way to eliminate such isolations in our society and make architecture an assisting factor in creating harmonies.
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05 Park,Park
- YEAR: 2007 - TYPE: Civic activity center + Parking lot - SITE: Taichung, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Academic studio project
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Project Introduction The project site is an existing parking lot which is few streets away from a popular night market street- Jin Ming 1st Street. Other than the famous street, site is mostly surrounded by residential area. This neighborhood has been bother by 24hr almost non-stop noise cause by mostly tourists car parking. The redevelop requirement is aim to solve this problem and also combine the original parking lot with program of civil activity center which is targeting for serving locals.
Design Concept Residential side
Commercial side
Original parking volume
Submerge underground
Additional parking
Neighborhood friendly programs
Night view
Site plan
The main design strategy here is to separate the neighborhood with parking function by plug in the new programs in between them. The new plug-ins becomes a br idge that connects both side of residential area and the commercial area.
Parking Tower
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Roof park
Atrium space
Path to roof park
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Parking Tower (Tourists)
Buffer zone
Neighborhood (Locals)
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700 years ago, there was a cultural movement which advocated people being more focus on self-awareness, on science, on rethinking of the religion based on humanism. Between human rights and theology, people started to have new idea of the relationship of them.
06 Rinascimento - YEAR: 2009-2010 - TYPE: Urban park redevelopment - SITE: Taipei, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Thesis Design Project
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Background information At 1980, a 25 hectare full-block site, which in the center of Taipei city down town, was constructed to be a memorial garden after the death of the former president Chiang, Kai Sheik. This man was known as one of the warlords (Leader of KMT, a political party originated in China) in mainland who declared himself as the Chinese military leader during World War II. After the war, his regime had been challenged by communists, and soon the loss of his battle and territory forced him to turn his army into Taiwan in 1949. He soon reorganized his regime and power into a highly monocracy government. In order to secure his rule of the very last territory, Taiwan island, he established all kinds of methods that a tyranny will do such as "The Holocaust of Feb. 28th" to wipe out the protesters holding against his corrupted local governments', "The White Terror" which killed tens of thousands of innocent Taiwanese been accused to be communists, and not to mention that he manipulated himself as an national hero and saint by making he and his son been continuously "elected" as "president" for over 40 years (1948-1988).
Relationship between Taiwan and China Although it is an obvious truth that Taiwan is not part of China, but it is still full of ambiguous among citizens' recognitions due to historical connections of both sides and cultural symbols implanted by KMT to demonstrate their legitimacy of ruling and representative as legal government for China in the UN. Not like all the other art and architectural form brought and left by the colonizers during past 300 years of Taiwan history, this time we are facing an unprecedented condition of a fully overwrites of island's history and memories. The project aim is about to redefine the relationship between Taiwan and China by referring the arising theory of Desinicization -elimination of Chinese influenceand applying it into the biggest and symbolized site over the country. Also bring in the chance to raise the citizens' consciousness of thinking about what their country really is and buried past.
1904 - Farming field
Japanese Army Camp
1912 - Residential area
KMT Camp
1926 - Half military camp
World Trade Center Plan
Construction
History and disputes of the site 1945 - End of the WWII 1947 - Feb. 28th holocaust 1949 - China PR established
1975 - President Chiang's death 1976 - Memorial park competetion 1980 - Construction completed
The mysterious park competition At 1976, right after president Chiang passed away, an open competition of his memorial park was held by the presidential office and a group of selected juries. The aim was set to choose a proposal of a park which servers the memorial of the president Chiang with satisfaction of citizens' amusement functions surrounded as a civil park. But somehow after the submissions reviewed by the former first lady, the result all suddenly came out with a traditional Chinese architect's proposal which has the least green ratio and maximum memorial function among all the competitors. Also it’s full of art form and symbols that only belongs to the ancient Chinese emperor and gods in order to reinforce the apotheosis.
Traditional Chinese Palace
Symbols of emperor and god
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1986 - First opposite party formed 1987 - Abolition of Marshal Law 1989 - China PR '89 Democracy Moement
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1942 - Full military camp
Chiang's Funeral
1960 - Military commend center
Worship Events
1990 - Wild Lily student movement 1996 - First presidential election 2000 - First time ruling party alternation
Protest Spot
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2004 - Protest against new president 2007 - Memorial Hall renamed as "Democracy Memorial Hall" 2008 - Second time ruling party alternation 2009 - Protest for "Parade and Assembly Law modification"
One of other proposals by German-based architect
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Area of Taipei City top 4 open space
Taipei civil activities
The Site Now According to the data at the top of this page, we can see that in the district Chung Chen, which the target site is located, has the 4th highest population and density of the city. But as the major open space in this district, the park serves memorial and worshipping function more than caring about the citizens' daily uses. The overall park planning scale is not human oriented. It is based on the idea of overrating a former president into an unnecessary saint almost like god. The people in Taipei, who already suffer from not enough open space, are struggling to apply their daily life into this temple-like park.
Commercial
Residential
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Surpass urban scale
Huge temple
Surrounded by Wall
Main Streets
Campus
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Population Density(ppl/sqkm)
Chung Chen Da Tong Da An Wan Hwa Wen Shan Population allocation information of Taipei City
Taipei Kaoshioung Beijing Kobe Sapporo Singapore Paris NewYork Soul Berlin London sqm / person
Open space ratio of global major cities
Comparely dull and over wide hard pavement plaza
The building and composition of current park design are directly transplanted from northern China style palace and temple. The over wide hard pavement plaza is extremely against Taipei's local weather condition, which has severe sudden rain fall and high temperature in summer.
Garden Building Pavement
Non-human scale elements for worship
Civil Services
Bus Stations
MRT Lines
Open Spaces
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Strategy of reforming the p Multiply axis
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Breaking boundar
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"Tempel of Heaven"
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The strategy is aim to reforming the entire landscape by adding new elements and axes based on the site observations and civil activities up to date. The action is mean to deconstruct the original park formation that simulating the ancient China "Temple of Heaven" (Above photo) which representing god. The existing buildings will be surrounded by vigorous nature and civic daily events upon the new arrangement.
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De-Memorial De-monocracy burlesque Metaphor of architectural form
Overwrite
Citizens’ daily needs
Rewrite
The 3 main building is kept not removed as historical records as part of the city history. By time passing, as more greens grows up, more events comes in, they will stand more as relics waiting for people to discover them. They are no longer the main spots of the park. I believe this new balance is the reflection of updated Taiwan society condition. Let those elements that represent the monocracy fades away through time.
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MRT ground exit MRT exit plaza
Tunnel path Bridge market
Sunken Plaza Recessed open space
Ramp park
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Water park
The programs are rearranged according to the habits of dwellers in Taipei city. Now the citizens' requirements and activities are fully merged with the park. The new facilities are setup by considering more of how to provide decent leisure open space for people, not for serving only memorial purpose anymore. Also, since the memorial hall building is now surrounded by a raised ramp park, people can walk up and see the whole building as a huge sculpture in an intimacy distance. Thus, it is no longer a huge divine object toward city.
Oriental Opera House
Western Opera House
Memorial Hall
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East Elevation
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East Gate Circle XinYi Rd.
MRT
HungCho S. Rd. AiGuo E. Rd. East Gate Circle XinYi Rd.
MRT
New Plaza HungCho S. Rd. AiGuo E. Rd.
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Traffic flow of two theaters
Vertical Green
Curtain Wall South Elevation Tree Plots
Cantilever Beams
North Elevation
Angle Braces
Main Structures
Vertical Core
Ramp
Earth Cover
Original Building
Explosion of memorial hall
Entrance of memorial hall
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07 [Unitopia]
- YEAR: 2008 - TYPE: Hypothesis - SITE: Empty Field, Near Future - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Proposal of Social Sciences: Sociology course - TEAM: Min Hsieh, Yun-Cheng Yu, Yue-Ting Lin, Dong-Chien Kuo
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Project Introduction Since the Industrial Revolution, massive unification and categorization has become part of our daily life. Not only products, but also architecture joined this trend. The purpose of this project was to explore the possibilities of how would our society transform if human keep develop this trend extremely? The idea was to create an evenly distributed world by using selected functional furniture. Those furniture compose a pattern that been duplicated itself unlimitedly to the end of horizon. The large scale of traditional definition that composed our society has been broke down into smaller scale of zonings, which are defended by individual movements. The zoning of each different person's daily life now cross with others. The boundary that originally classified people has become blurring. There is no longer space to limit activity; it is activity to define space. AM 07:00
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Friends Colleagues Relatives
Friends Colleagues Relatives
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Chapter III : Meta-Information This chapter is a collection of my work that applies parametric software during design, construction or manufacturing. Most of them are real practice projects from my career at two different design offices. As mentioned in the introduction, modern architectural design involves mass amounts of information and data that architects need to cope with (building codes, materials, dimensions, programs, etc.). Computation is definitely a powerful tool that assists architects in making decisions or judgement. It provides a much more scientific way for depicting my thoughts of subsequent continuity in both visual communication and representation.
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Project Introduction This project was assigned with 2 main phases. First phase was to analyze a natural phenomenon or an organism. The purpose was to decompose the target and find its very basic composing unit or logic that forms the system. Then compose a geometric object that constructed by following the abstracted rules. Second phase was to transform the result of phase 1 research and applied it to a headquarter design for a selected brand. The basic unit system of wave water forming
08 WAVE
- YEAR: 2009 - TYPE: Research - SITE: Taichung, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - NOTE: Academic studio project (2 phases included)
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Phase 1 The wave phenomenon is triggered by given force like wind blows, earth rotation or earthquake. After the force is input, the energy will transport through orbiting water molecules in continuous circulatory motion. My aim was to capture few moments from this motion and reconstructed it by connecting the different moments with time line, then overlapping the total transformation in one single picture frame, so that the creation was not just reproducing the phenomenon, it was representing the whole system. Progressing direction
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Clip 3 Progressing time
This study process was to zoom in into the wave system in micro scale of each water molecules circulation. By lofting 2 clips' points together, the continuity of the ideal molecules movements could be observed.
Random factor inserted
Above studies were formulated based on the basic ideal rules of wave. In reality, one important factor is the uncertainty of the input forces direction. Thus, I reset the regular arrangement of progressing direction of wave within the sampling area into randomly spread. Final step was too reconnected the new points together in to wave lines, and then connected those lines into surface.
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Phase 2 Adidas was the selected brand for continuing my design development. The main reason that I chose Adidas is because it is a globally well-known spor tswear company. It’s branding image of motivating people to do exercises and sports match very well with the unevenly distributed wave from. I believe to create a HQ building for Adidas by using wave concept will not only fit its branding images but also could actually meet the functions with designing a very dynamic space.
Design Concept The core idea was to keep going on with the study logic of phase 1, which decomposed a natural wave surface into a 2 dimensional analysis and use it to recompose an artificial 3D wave surface. In phase 2, I tried to recapture the key section lines from the final model of phase 1 (2D), then duplicate them as a square to form a series of self-lofted wave surfaces (3D).
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Section lines
Duplication
Surface
Store space
Rooftop Urban Playground
Urban Playground VIP Lounge Office Seminar Hall GYM Office Store Store Store Store
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In order to make the fence vertical form variations looks exactly like continuous in travelers' vision under their moving speed, the dimension of the fence is determined as following description. High Way Speed of this section: 70km/hr 70,000 m / 3,600s 19.4m / s The animation effect which caused by human eyes' visual persistence is minimum in 24 pictures per second. The maximum distance unit between vertical supports: 19.4/24=0.80833m
09 Speedscape - YEAR: 2010 - TYPE: Design proposal - SITE: Chung Li, Taiwan - CONDITION: Pending - ROLE: Lead designer
Green wall planting unit
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Project Introduction Speedscape was a fence design project for a campus of a technology company located in suburb area near Taoyuan - one of the major cities in Taiwan. The target fence is the boundary between campus and the highway in front of it. Client wanted to renovate this fence because it is the front of the company. The main goal was to create an eye-catching effect that every car passing by the highway in front could notice the campus and the company.
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Project Introduction The original township office is a forty years old building. Straight Square design was nominated to propose a facade renewal design in order to fulfill following two main requirements. 1. Shading for severe sunlight from west side. 2. Should be noticeable in consider of the cars passing by the highway in front of the building.
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10 Township Office Facade - YEAR: 2009-10 - TYPE: Facade renewal - SITE: Ming Jien Township, Nantou, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Assistant designer, construction document execution
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ELIV (Empowering Lives through Innovative Volunteerism) is an international volunteer group based in Taiwan. This project was one of their Cambodia programs that helping locals building up the orphanage in a drought area. Straight Square Design was aiming to design a 3 dimensional geometric roof that can efficiently recycle the rainfall water. I was in charge of optimizing the geometric by using Rhino and Grasshopper, thus it could guarantee the water drains goes in right direction.
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Roof height setup dimensions
11 ELIV Green Home Project - YEAR: 2012 - TYPE: Orphanage - SITE: Siem Reap, Cambodia - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Roof geomatric optimizer, 3D modeler
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Cloud Tower 12 - YEAR: 2010 - TYPE: 2010 Taiwan Tower Concept Competition - SITE: Taichung, Taiwan - CONDITION: N/A - ROLE: Lead designer - TEAM: Yeh-Sen Su, Shiao-Wen Lee
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WINSING Apartment 13 - YEAR: 2012-13 - TYPE: Residential apartment facade & landscape - SITE: Taipei, Taiwan - CONDITION: Pending - ROLE: Lead designer, project manager - TEAM: Hsin Li, Penda Wang
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North east side
South west side - night view
Project Introduction The client developer came to NOIZ to create a design for a residential building that can represent a very contemporary taste while maintaining characteristics of the unique site located at the edge of the Taipei city near a green mountainous area. NOIZ has combined "digital" and "natural" images into facade composition, by applying intentionally low resolution image of pixel, and endless landscape of rolling hills.
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Type D - Section
All the window frames vary from one to another but following a very simple system. Each of the extruded wooden frames is given different but coordinated depth, creating a vertical urban landscape of rolling hill. Through back and forth design discussion and modification with the developer, the frames are nail down to 4 main types in order to save construction budget. These 4 types of frames are also coordinated with the housing unit types which developers wish to promote according to their marketing research.
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LED light facing out LED裝飾照明
LED light facing out LED裝飾照明
2/3 empty aluminum frame (Wood texture) 2/3透空木紋鋁造型格柵
Slide window 推拉窗
2/3 empty aluminum frame (Wood texture) 2/3透空木紋鋁造型格柵
French window 陽台落地窗 Handrail, to be fixed on wall both end sides. 陽台扶手,結構於兩側 RC牆面
Fixed glass 固定窗
Artificial wood deck 環塑木陽台地坪
Concrete rain cover. Apply brick tile white painted on surface. 造型雨遮,面貼仿磚,白色面漆
Type A - Window type section
Concrete rain cover. Apply brick tile white painted on surface. 造型雨遮,面貼仿磚,白色面漆
Type A - Balcony type section
Grasshopper as formulating tool Fulfilling the complicated Taipei city building code is the most challenged part of this project. The cantilever canopies must meet the given conditions such as transparent ratio, maximum cantilever distance, and window opening ratio. Also, the design needs to pass few rounds of urban committees review. In order to match above situations as the design development was undergoing, I formulated a system that could integrate the code regulations and the design progress. The result could be adjusted according to updated inputs.
Entrance lobby proposal
Surrounding landscape proposal
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14 Voxel Scape
- YEAR: 2013-14 - TYPE: Public art - SITE: Nantou City, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Construction designer, project manager - TEAM: Yusuke Oono, Junichiro Horikawa, Penda Wang, Hsin Li, Andrew Bojun Wang
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Structure model
Close up view
Hanging cantilever cubes
Steel plates
Steel pipes
Ceramic cubes RC fundation
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Steel structure
Cubes installation
Project Introduction NOIZ was nominated to design this 3D pixelated art work in font of ITRI research complex by cooperating with a local ceramic kiln. It is a complicated 3 dimensional object composed by custom-made ceramic cubes. The structure system needs to ensure all cubes are safely fixed with the steel parts and transfer the loading to the ground. In order to achieve this purpose, I came up with this building-like structure with layers of steel slabs supported by angled steel pipes and vertical steel plates. Close up view
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Wormhole graticule
Wooden base form
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- YEAR: 2013-14 - TYPE: Public art - SITE: Nantou City, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Construction designer, project manager - TEAM: Yusuke Oono, Junichiro Horikawa, Penda Wang, Hsin Li
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Bamboo weaving
Project Introduction This work is another piece of the ITRI PA series project that we tried to form a 3 dimensionally curved wormhole shape by traditional bamboo art technique. The design purpose was as same as the Voxel Scape which integrated most advance design technology with the very local traditional materials. During the process, design group and bamboo craftsman exchange lot of information and technique studies that they had never done before.
Tunnel entrance
Coordination of BIM
Full scale mock-up
Job site installation
Project Introduction On 2010, Bio Architecture Formosa (BAF) of Taiwan and NOIZ were declared the winner of the design competition of this research lab complex building in midland Taiwan. NOIZ created a continuous strata-like sun shading louver system that goes up and down wrapping all facade for this 4-storey, 30,000sqm complex. I took over the project from beginning of the construction. The main challenge was how to communicate the massive complicated digital information with contractors.
16 ITRI Research Building - YEAR: 2010-14 - TYPE: Research complex facade & Landscape - SITE: Nantou City, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Assistant designer, job site coordinator - TEAM: Yusuke Oono, Hsin Li, Ching Yen Lin , Chun Wei Lee
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Project Introduction "Morphing Chair 2" is evolved from one of NOIZ ARCHITECTS famous furniture ideas. The sections of "Morphing Chair" were selected from famous design chairs throughout history. By morphing one section to another, the continuous transformation formed a unique visual sequence. Then we manufactured these sections through CNC cut plywood and assembled them into one piece by penetrated the straight steel rods. But in "Chair 2", the client requested us to fit the chair with a curved wall precisely. The main challenge was to solve this condition by creating a joint system that could connect the cut sections with precise angles.
17 Morphing Chair 2 - YEAR: 2012 - TYPE: Furniture - SITE: ZengZou, China - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Chair designer - TEAM: Jose Rodrigues (interior designer, project manager)
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Total Chair Sections
Joint mock-up
Section control
Study 3D modeling
Curved finger joint
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Factory porocess
The Ear of museum
Job site precision adjustment
support plate
section plate
window frame
ear template
welding connection
steel plate
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- YEAR: 2012-13 - TYPE: Public art & Interior - SITE: Taipei, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Assitant designer, job site manager - TEAM: Yusuke Oono, Penda Wang, Hsin Li, Hui Shuen Chen
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1/5 mock-up
Project Introduction The EAR is composed by 3 dimensional curved surfaces. In reality, the whole work is split into 6 pieces in order to fit the transportation size limit. The challenge was to how to fix the curvature of the curved surfaces with limited given budget. After several rounds of test, we decided to put multiple laser-cut steel section plates, which the section was precisely extract from the 3D model. Thus, the smashed steel surfaces could be bent by following the determined sections to control its final curvature.
Small pieces with cushion top
Contour line extrusion
Large steel sculpture
Foam shapping
Cushion numbering & Contour lines
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Wrapped with fabric
Factory manufacture
- YEAR: 2013 - TYPE: Public art (Cushion seats) - SITE: Yokohama, Japan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Assistant designer, manufacture supervisor - TEAM: Junichiro Horikawa, Jose Rodrigues, Daiki Kanaoka
Fit into steel structure
Assembled at site
Project Introduction Day3/5/6 is a public art project setup in a newly opened shopping mall (2013) near Yokohama harbor. The installation is split in 2 parts. First part is the biggest object that composed by Voronoi geometric made by steel plates. Second part is 2 smaller pieces which are designed as seats for shopping customers. The most difficult part of this project is that all the cushions on top of the seats are hand-made foam units. The precision of cushions were all relying on contour lines extract from 3D model and printed out on paper as guide lines of cutting and shaping foams.
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Death of the Virgin Assumption of the Virgin Orsanmichele Church Orsanmichele Church Florence Florence
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Death of the Virgin Orsanmichele Church Florence
Eagle, Pulpit Siena Cathedral Siena
King and Queen, Seat End St. Olav’s Church Faeroe Islands
A Saint, Seat End St. Olav’s Church Faeroe Islands
Annunciation Chartres Cathedral Chartres
Lion Crushing a Serpent Musée du Louvre Paris
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Octagonal base, Pulpit Spiral Columns Relief of a Prophet Siena Cathedral Reims Cathedral Church of San Giovanni Siena Rome Reims
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"Metro 11" Project MoNTUE (Museum of National Taipei University of Education), a new museum opened on 2011, received donation of precious plaster cast sculptures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The "Metro 11" project was to install the eleven sculptures which are now on permanent display in the building, among which are sculptures from the facades of Reims and Chartres Cathedrals in France, Antoine Louis Barye’s powerful ‘Lion Crushing a Serpent’ whose bronze original stands in the Louvre, and two incredible 15th century wood carvings take from the pew ends of St. Olav’s Church in the Faeroe Islands.
Sculptures 3D scanning
Custom made steel bases
Final installation
20 MoNTUE Installations - YEAR: 2011-13 - TYPE: Public art & Installations - SITE: Taipei, Taiwan - CONDITION: Completed - ROLE: Assitant designer, job site manager - TEAM: Yusuke Oono, Penda Wang, Hsin Li, Hui Shuen Chen
NOIZARCHITECTS
VIEW POINT
ALUMINUM LOUVER FACADE
Two Point of View TEMPERED GLASS t=10
STEEL PLATE
STEEL PIPE □30 x 100
BLACK PAINT
Magnetic Field
Wireframe Furniture
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Curriculum Vitae NAME DATE OF BIRTH E-MAIL EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT
PUBLICATIONS
SYMPOSIUM / EXHIBITION
EXTRACURRICULATE SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Tsai, Chin-Yu 1987/08/31 born in Taipei, Taiwan
mandarinairlines@gmail.com 2005 -2010
2009, 2010, 2010-2011, 2011,Sept.-Dec. 2011,Dec. -2014,June
LANGUAGE
Straight Square Design / Internship Straight Square Design / Designer Taiwan Army / Engineer Corporal Straight Square Design / Designer NOIZARCHITECTS / Designer, Project Manager
2010,
THU Architecture Thesis Design Review_very vary ISBN:978-957-9104-94-4
2012,
Taiwan Architect Magazine, July issue, essay "NCTU IAR+ETHZ CAAD International Symposium - Resolution in the age of meta-digital" ISSN: 1011-6818
2009,
<Space Syntax - Metapolis Taichung. Study on locating new potential high speed railway station of Taichung> cross critics and symposium with Architecture Dept. of Univ. of Hong Kong and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. @Hong Kong University Research advisor: Dr. Shu Chih-Feng
2009,
<Toward Imaginable Interfaces of Social Encounters in the projective Metapolis Taichung> presented in INTA 33rd annual conference at Taichung, Taiwan. Research advisor: Dr. Shu Chih-Feng
2010,
<Plan on next> Architecture Thesis Design Exhibition @ TADA Taichung, Taiwan
2012,
<Procedural architecture - resolution in the age of meta-digital>, assistant curator & lecture translator @MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
2006
APEC Introducing and demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools Competition - Creative Prizes Award
2005 -2010 2009
COMPUTING SKILLS
TungHai University, Taiwan / Bachelor of Architecture
THU Soccer team Activity Group leader of Student Association Department of Architecture, THU
ADVANCE: Rhino, AutoCAD, V-ray INTERMEDIATE: Grasshopper, Sketchup, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign BASIC: Processing, autodesk navisworks, Microsoft Office suite Chinese Mandarin (Native), English (TOEFL iBT103), Japanese (N2)