Design Portfolio 2014-2022 / By Wei-Kai Chu

Content

Work Experience /

• Blue Paradise - Awawan Seaside Recreational Park , AECOM

• Takoham Regional Planning, AECOM

• PCG Central Java Industrial Park - VR Showroom, AECOM

• Sratford Centre New development, AHMM

• Carrington Street, AHMM

• Emerge Architects Anniversary Exhibition Interior Design and Curation, Emerge Architects

• SINICA Eco-Pavilion - Drawing Competition, Emerge Architects

• Penghu Sport Centre, Emerge Architects

Student Projects /

• Alpine Botanic City, MArch RIBA Part 2 , Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

• Barter Village, MArch RIBA Part 2 , Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

• Future Artefacts Archive , MArch RIBA Part 2 , Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

• Sync / Sink City , BArch , Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Blue Paradise - Awawan Seaside Recreational Park

Cheng-Gong, Taitung County, Taiwan

23°10'37.5"N 121°24'06.8"E

Work Experience Project 01

Urban Designer II, AECOM

Client: ECNSA, Taiwan

The requirement of the project is to deliver a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development of water sport tourism, which includes developing a strategic framework, as well as studying the feasibility of the planning proposal. The project site is located at the east coast of Taiwan, which is also regarded as one of the most sensitive areas where there is conserving of the most diverse ecosystem of wildlife, natural landscape and aboriginal communities. The strategic planning site covers the whole administrative area of the client ECNSA (East Coast National Scenic Administration) with 3 specifically appointed locations in the north, middle and south part of the administrative area. Nevertheless, the designated site for detailed planning design is the north location among the appointed sites - Awawan (Meaning “Stone Umbrella”, named after one of the most iconic volcanic rocks which looks like an umbrella).

Cliff Walkway - Connecting Existing Recreational Park to The New Waterfront

Region Pacific Island Water Sports Paradise

1.“Acupuncture” approach for landscape micro managementbased on the initiatives in the master plan

2.Diversifying tourist capacity level based on social and environmental consideration.

3.Promoting integration and collaboration of cultural identity and tourist activities.

Development Potentials

The natural resources at the east coast have been one of the most well-conserved and celebrated in Taiwan due to its mountainous topography which creates a complexed environmental obstacle for urban development.

With its volcanic geology and ocean flows from The Pacific Ocean, strong biodiveristy and maritime ecosystem are what come to mind first when we started developing the project. We use both firsthand and second hand field survery methodlogy to investigate development potential from ecological aspect, social aspect and economic aspect. We concluded 9 key local resources which would be benefitial for water sport tourism, and 10 critical conclusive perspectives from

local communities, officials, orgnaisations as principle values to leverage development intensities and design approaches.

3 Key MP Strategies & 6 Initial Targets

As what is shown in the diagram above, the planning and design apporach will be as minimun as possible considerring the client's schedule of delivering the project in the future, as well as the budget. Thus, firstly we suggested an "Acupuncture" design approach including using existing infratructures and spaces, connecting patches of the public realm. Secondly, because our project sites are relatively safe and calm water areas, we suggested future water sport tourism targetting all age groups and creating friendly spaces for all

of these groups. Thirdly, our project sites are located in Taitung County where 80% of the local population are aborigional people and Amis is the dominant tribe among them. Aboriginal culture and identity has been one of the national intiatives from the Taiwanese government, as well as a siginficant resource for Taiwanese tourism. Therefore, we suggested following the successful models of other well developed areas regarding promoting aborigional cuture and integrating it into the future development at the project sites. These 3 key strategies were then developed further into 6 planning targets for the design proposal.

1)新建水域遊憩區專用停車場與業者專用服務道路。

2)打造自既有遊憩區到水域遊憩區之散客慢行走廊。

管理目標【服務更完善】部落暨遊憩之活動空間打造

1)多層空間欣賞晨曦與海灣景色之觀賞指引系統

由地方經營組織統㇐管制露營乘載數量之專設露 置入由專業者帶領之戶外拓展與林野體驗活動，

[ Transport Target ] Clearer Road Hierarchy

1. Providing a designated carpark for water sport business owners dropping off cutomers.

2. Building corridors in-between the existing recreational park and the waterfront area to divert cars and pedestrians.

3. Transforming the main street to the waterfront into a promenade and limiting car access.

[ Ecology Target ] Restore Biodiversty

1. Conducting biodiversity research and a feasiablity study for increaing biodiversity.

2. Waterfront landscape improvment with environmental-friendly design and tectonics.

[ Service Target ]

More Utilities for Water Sport People

1. Creating a new seaside recreational park tourist centre.

2. Converting the existing unused space into a multi-purpose platform for local events, such as markets, music events, etc.

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Landscape Target]

Enhance Public Realm Connectivity

1. Creating viewing platforms while developing a walkway system interlinking future camping sites, waterfront and transport access points.

2. Consistent design language for landscape furnitures and signages.

3. Refurbishing existing utilities and landscape infrastructure in the current recreational park.

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Diversity Target ]

All Age Group Freindly Spaces

1. Suggesting all the activities are guided activities to prevent individual tourist behaviours damaging the sensitive ecosystems.

2. Establishing a management board including business owners, local residents and the operation team to monitor the activity and maintain the environment.

3. Providing diverse entertainment packages by collaborating mountain hiking, agricultural experiences, short classes, etc.

[ Economy Target ] Supporting Local Startups

1. Securing strong influences of local aborigional identity associating with the overall marketing strategy of the future seaside recreational park by encouraging and supporting local startups.

2. Introducing training that will be beneficial for local business owners and facilitate business networks for local startups to increase business resilency and scalability.

Master Plan of The Awawan Seaside Recreational Park

1) Vew from the Water Area Looking at New Waterfront , Market Space and Tourist Centre

2) Multi-purpose Platform for Market, Cultural Events,etc.

Operation and Feasiablity Study

The feasiablity study emphasised on scoping 3 key regulations and proposing operation models for a future procurement plan to the client. With regulation, the project development is dominated by the Regional Planning Act, Coastal Management Act and Aborigional People's Basic Right Law, which have clear restrictions to land-use amendment, appropriation of pulic lands and development intensity. Regarding operation models, it was crucial to have the business scale aligned with the capability of local business owners. There are already several local water sport tourism business owners; using them as potential operators, together with the client, we came out with specifications and legal procurement requirements that are friendly to those business owners.

Community Interviews & Workshops

50 % of the master planning project is collecting local communities' opinions under the legal requirement of Aborigioanl People Basic

Right Law and Coastal Management Act. We conducted 23 one to one interviews, 3 community workshops and 2 community engagements. The participants ranged from local aborigional committees, trading organisations, business owners to local residents. Among the dicussion, we circled around four principle issues covering the environmental aspect, social aspect, trasport aspect and economic aspect. We also presented our future proposal about how we will achieve the 6 targets including the ecology target, transport target, landscape target, service target, economy target and diversity target. The diagram below shows interesting results about which planning target received the most concerns and expectations from the local communities.

Development Delivery Timeline

At the final stage of the project, we suggested a comprehensive timeline for the client indicating the the legal requirements under the Regional Planning Act, Coastal Management Act and all the relavent construction regulations, as well as the process length and potential risks in the procedures. The master planning proposal was completed in April 2022, and has now moved into applying for land-use amendment and appropriation of public lands. It is estimated that the development will receive planning approval from the competent authority by the end of 2024 and enter the construction stage. If the process goes as planned, the client can procure for operation management by 2027.

Applying for Land-Use Registration Amendment Based on Regional Planning Act ArchitecturalDesign &PlanningApplication Procurement & Construction Procurement & Operation

1) Development Delivery Timeline

2) Central Promenade Overlooking New Waterfront

Takoham Regional Planning

Taoyuan City, Taiwan

24°52′50.2″N 121°17′13.5″E

Work Experience Project 02

Urban Designer II, AECOM

Client: Taoyuan City Hall, Taiwan

Due to lack of master planning and local consensus of the regional development, Taoyuan City Governement aims to deliver a regional identity and cohesive " brand" integrating all the exisiting local development at the reclaimed land situated in-between Daxi District and Long-Tan District. In the proposal, the brand "Takoham" was suggested based on extensive historic documents and cultural referencing. GIS and national land-use system were widely use to map out the spatial profile of all the development schemes in the region and conclude the physical relationship under the proposed regional identity. The final proposal was to create a guidebook for the lcoal government bodies about how to integrate with different departments in the future and facilitate administrative cohesion.

1) Regional Map of Takoham

2) Scematic Hiking Trail

3) Regional Schemes Index

PCG Central Java Industrial Park - VR Showroom

Work Experience Project 03

Urban Designer II, AECOM

Client: PCG Group, Taiwan

Working with the digital team of AECOM, the VR show room is one of the deliverable products to the client PCG which is one of the major suppliers for big sportwear brands, such as Adidas, Nike, etc. The VR show room aims to showcase the company's value, history, technology in shoes manufacturing and remarkable relationship with clientele. Enscape, Rhino and Twinmotion are the key softwares applied in this product delivery.

1) PCG VR Showroom Interior Design

2) PCG Produce / Nike Corner in the VR Showroom

Sratford Centre New development

Stratford, London, UK

51.5423°N 0.00256°W

Work Experience Project 04

Post Graduate Summer Placement, AHMM

Client: Frogmore, UK

*Images Are For Personal Purpose Use Only.

Copyright. Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

1. Master Plan 2. Visualisation of Central Plaza

Carrington Street

Mayfair, London, UK 51°30'23.0"N 0°08'50.5"W

Work Experience Project 05

Architectural Assistant Part 2, AHMM Client: AVERDEEN OAK LTD. , UK

Emerge Architects Anniversary Exhibition

Interior Design and Curation

Taipei, Taiwan

25°01'41.5"N 121°30'38.3"E

Work Experience Project 06

Architectural Designer, Emerge Architects

Client: Emerge Architects, Taiwan

SINICA Eco-Pavilion Drawing Competition

Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan 25°02'25.0"N 121°37'00.8"E

Work Experience Project 07

Architectural Designer, Emerge Architects

Client: Academia Sinica, Taiwan

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1. Render / Hainan Carpark , Peng-Hu, Taiwan

2. Elevation / Sinica Pavilion , Taipei, Taiwan

Penghu Sport Centre

Magong, Penghu, Taiwan

23°34'07.6"N 119°34'41.2"E

Work Experience Project 08

Architectural Designer, Emerge Architects

Client: Penghu County Hall, Taiwan

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Magong Sport Centre. Peng-Hu, Taiwan

3. Render / 4. Structure Test / 5. Plan / 6. Section

ALPINE BOTANIC CITY

Zermatt, Switzerland

46.0207° N, 7.7491° E

5th Year Project / MArch Part 2 Merit Tutor / Mark Smout , Laura Allen

The project surrounds by the utopian discussion of how landscape and built environment in the future can provide an environmentally harmonious world for the human and nature under the circumstance that the relationship in between human being and nature is extremely sensitive nowadays because of climate change. The site of the project specifically has been chosen at Zermatt where is confronting climate change and the critical sustainable environment under mass tourism. based on the concept of board game I created, I argue the priority of new development at Zermatt should primary respond to the changing environment at the Alps, and it can be identified the changing vegetation pattern at the Alps. Thus, I propose a greenhouse landscape that can conserve the local woods and authentic rare flora.

, SWITZERLAND 46°01'34.4"N 7°45'28.2"E

ALPINE BOTANIC CITY/ MASTER PLAN / 1:1500

1. Master Plan Bird View

2. Lower Campus Pine Nursery

3. Lower Campus Reservoir

4. Upper Campus Rervoir

5. Upper Campus Workshop

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Based on the scientific research, the vegetation could be replaced by tropical plants or the species that can grow in the higher temperature environment., thus, it can be argued that the green house will stand as an ecological museum containing disappeared authentic landscape and climate of Zermatt.The project provides key essential programmes for botanic project and focuses on the intimacy in between the conserved alpine plants and visitors. The composition and curation of each cultivation beds are aiming to provide a world that people can immerse and surrounded by the delicacy of alpine rarities. The greenhouse serves as an architectural scale capsule containing authentic alpine climate and allows the delicacy of alpine plants to colonise over the tourist area of Zermatt and become a crystal city that replace the existing resort landscape.

KEY PROGRAMMES

1. Cultivation Bed Unit Prototypes

2. Alpine Flora Garden

3. Conservatories Stack-Effect Roof-Scape

4. Alpine Flora Incubation Lab

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Alpine Flora Garden Walkway

BARTER VILLAGE

Board Game / Project Precursor for Alpine Botanic City

5th Year Project / MArch Part 2 Merit Tutor / Mark Smout , Laura Allen

The project demonstrates a personal crafting methodology while developing in the first phase of my project which can demonstrate the communication of intimacy with landscape reality in design by playing around the geographic map and multiply with architectural modelling methods, such as hatching, contouring, prototyping and material articulating. The technique is applied to create the element set of the board game which is a conceptual project based on barter lifestyle in response to the critical environment under mass tourism and local climate change.

FUTURE ARTEFACTS ARCHIVE

Lea Valley, London, UK

51.5790° N, 0.0473° W

4th Year Project / MArch Part 2

Tutor / Mark Smout , Laura Allen

Situating in north east London, the project stands as an landscapereserve archive for conserving and exhbiting the disappeared wild landscape in London Greenbelt. The project represent reflection from human angle on mass-housing development and urbanisation.

In order to create well-regulated indoor environment for restored landscape artefacts, the main structure of the archive is using rammed earth mixed with concrete shell technology to achieve the ideal. The project brings together the topics including cultural conservation, community narrative and playfulness for showcase facility in design. The project also looked at the emergent structural technology of concrete frame structure and its combination with earthen building elements.

1. Rammed Earth

2. Concrete Roof

3. Terminal Unit of HVC System

4. English weather is often wet, cold cloudy during the winter. The humid weather is not good for the rammed earth casting work. As the result, it is important to distingusish the envi ronmental condition required by the rammed earth casting workshop.

5. Passive way to bring in the air from outdoor will increase the humidity in the workshop. As the result, dehumidifer is required to regulate the humidity.

6. The thermal supply mostly reply on the thermal stored by rammed earth, however, due to the limited sun light in English weather, active heating supply still is required to regulate the temperature.

7. Intaking Natural Fresh Air into HVC.

8. Heating Support

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Workshop Room Section

The size of the media room is farely small, in which sound will be bouncing between the 3 dimentional curverture wall in a soundwave reflection environment. The curtain is installed in the room to absorb the sound perfectly.

SYNC / SINK CITY

Mai-Liao, Yunlin County, Taiwan

23.7485° N, 120.2563° E

5th Year Project / BArch

Tutor / Jerry Hsiao

Focusing on researching the land sunsidence crisis at the west coast of Tawian, the project proposed a utopian scenerio which aims to preserve the original life pattern in a landscape of tower structures. 'Tower-ising' the township of Mailio is the key concept to serve the fishery industry popuated coastal areas of Taiwan. The new towship will be sitted on a resilient infrastructure to constantly adapt the building structures with earth surface and sea levels. Insdie the towers, new water recycle and treatment stategy has been intorduced to sustain the native fishery industry and other habitable area.

The narrative of the city also has been developed further to resonate the book ' Smart City' by Anthony M. Townsend, which is looking at how emergent communication and delivery technologies can provide a new Synchronization in between economy, ecology and cultural activities

Indicated in the statistic report by Nasa, the sea level will rise 4.7 meter in 2050 by global warming. Taiwan as known as an island state located at Pacific Ocean Area, which is also in the crisis of national land decrement. The project is located at Mailiao Township in Yunlin County, Taiwan, where is the first to bear the brunt of crisis. According to the analysis of Mailiao, the land subsidence has been increasing the speed of national land decrement in the reason of private wells construction to keep the vigorousness of aquaculture leading to over ground water consumption. However, everything can be traced back to the inefficient water resource distribution and unsustainable usage. The township is composed of three individual industries landscapes, which is aquaculture farm, industrial island by sea reclamation and agriculture field. The proposal focuses on how to come up with a sustainable living space for local residents and further development of local industries transforming into a new industrial chains. Complexing the features of industries, soil consistency and aqua system, in conclusion a sustainable utilizing circulation of water has to be established bringing up with a new settlement pattern to face the crisis.

1.Fuel Industry Island

2.Fishery Farm Texture

3.Agriculture Pattern

The industry tower is programmed with residential space for native people and potential foreign population, intelligently managed aquaculture modules and research facilities for governmental organizations and private corporation. From top to the bottom and inside to outside of tower, a cycling self-circulation water system service the different functional spaces in the building. Decreasing the proportion of water utilization supplied from dam, the living system relies on the recycled water ,which is purified from wasted water of tower to 85~90% of purity water. There are mechanical rooms of physical, chemical and biological inserted around the wetland on the ground, and water will be released into the wetland dissolving oxygen to approach the purity. Fresh water will be transported to the industry tower in opposite side and return to the aquaculture system and residential system. When transporting fresh water, the wasted water evacuation process will be active ,and sustainably repeating the circulation. The redundant water will be reserved in the conservation modules and waits for the next purification process.