Taipei condenser Urban park

site : Taipei, Taiwan 25°o3'47.2"N 121°52'18.4"E status : competition for new vision of CKSM co-partner : Yi - Hsien Tseng

2022 winter - 2023 spring

Second Prize

The urban fabric of Taipei is heavily shape by public transport, the transient movement of points and dots has shaped the form of life of Taipei's citizens, and we have begun to focus on individual culture, mainly at the expense of the total participation of the city's public space, breaking the original city into more private space.

It has caused the fission of the Taipei city, sense of city isolation becomes more and more intense, the frequency of people participate in public community activities has also decrease accordingly, distributed community will never interact with others. As time goes by, people have lost the connection between individuals and groups under the influence of the metropolitan.

Strategy

Activities that happen in the park of CKS are arranged by a matrix plan after resetting the MRT station. Functions in the park are planned to complement other programs on the site, which create plazas to allow different activities to take place.

With an organic cortex, group activities are taking place above the park, while independent programs are happening in each container, under the cortex.

Cortex Plan scale : 1 / 5000

We consider the park of CKS as the largest piece of isolated region in the Taipei city, hoping here is a start as a social condenser to become a meeting point of the urban life in Taipei.

Coexistence Of Ideology Political Ideology

In the past, political ideologies rationalized the CKS Memorial Hall as a symbol of authoritarianism, the way the public engages with the memorial hall has been limit under this framework.

Through an ideological reset, we envisioned that if everyone could leave a memento of themselves here, a product of their ideology, thereby returning the power of public activities to the citizens.

individual exist in programs all in one one in all spaces change due to activities

In Taipei, we believe that it is more important to use the overlapping of these events to help individuals better understand their position in the city through interaction with other groups.

In the OMA book Content, a social condenser is described as a "Programmatic layering upon vacant terrain to encourage dynamic coexistence of activities and to generate through their interference, unprecedented events."

In this way, people can feel the relationship between individuals and groups, and re-examine their position in the big city of Taipei.

Imagine CKS Memorial Hall cut into countless containers free from the constraints of time, life, and the city, with individuals and groups in the same container. These containers represent the ideal world free from the restriction of the metropolis, combining sensory and emotional. Memory space experiences allow people to temporarily detach from the city and rethink the urban landscape of Taipei.

The central pool becomes a source of natural growth, as over time, nature slowly covers the artificial memorial architecture.

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What can we leave behind since Chiang Kai-Shek left behind his?