Rationality is rigorous, decisive, and orderly, while sensibility is uncertain, ambiguous, and chaotic. This twin-house design, inspired by Ang Lee's film "Sense and Sensibility", takes the different personalities and lifestyles of the two sisters as its starting point. Through the extreme differences in the volumetric composition and internal spaces, it responds to the sisters' polarized imaginations of life while reflecting their inseparable familial bond.
- Owner: elder sister
- Nuclear family
- Music Producer
- Music Studio & Record SHop
- Owner: younger sister
Performing Space
- Partnership
- Dancer
- Dance Studio
Inhabitants & Programs
blocks sharing servant spaces & core
Facade responding to the functions
"Sense and Sensibility", directed by Ang Lee in 1911 and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name
Rotate block B toward Beida Park
Cutting the edges to create sloping walls
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Massing: 2 houses
Collage of the urban fabric
Block A
Block B
Floor Layout
In terms of the internal spatial layout, the first and second floors house a record store and a dance studio, each run by one of the sisters. A small performance room on the first floor connects these spaces, serving as an area for the families to exchange inspiration and for the public to interact.
The third and fourth floors are dedicated entirely to living spaces. The layout on these floors reflects the distinct personalities and lifestyles of the two families: Building A emphasizes a sequential arrangement of living spaces, while Building B features an open layout to highlight flexibility and spontaneity in living.
Block A intentionally continues the rational urban texture of the surrounding area with a deliberate play of solid and void on the design of the façade, reflecting the internal spatial structure. In contrast, Building B features large, irregularly shaped windows that create a flow between the interior and exterior spaces.
Façade
Final Physical Model
Study Model
Conceptual Model
Let's Take the Long View !
Engineer Dormitory of Hsinchu Science Park
Category: Apartment Complex
Term: 2023 Fall
Instructor: Chien-Shuo Pai
Indivisual Work
The site was originally a comfortable courtyard residence complex designed for engineers 40 years ago, but it has now become one of the oldest buildings among the surrounding dormitories. Through this redesign, the focus is on sharing the lake view by placing two towers on the site. By offering a variety of public and private terrace spaces, it creates more diverse social spaces for the engineers.
providing total 70 housing units
maximum views towards the lake
Fragmentize: offering a variety of public and private terraces
Communication: commercial spaces and facilities for the inhabitants and the public
Massing:
Lift & Reduce: to create different characters of the two towers
Rotate:
Twist: to have the massing more slender
In response to the concept of sharing the lake view, the design of the residential units ensures that the living spaces (living and dining rooms) of each unit face the lake. Different unit types are distinguished by the varying depths of the living spaces.
Section B
Sharing the Lake View
To create more opportunities for interaction, the ground level features a sunken plaza that gathers activities. Commercial spaces are placed along the street to enliven the entire dormitory area. Additionally, a direct pathway to the lakeside is provided on the ground level to improve accessibility to the lakeside promenade for the surrounding dormitory residents.
Open Ground Level
Shilin Nexus
Harmony of History and Modernity
Category: Urban Complex Development
Term: 2024 Spring
Instructor: Shu-chang Kung Indivisual Work
This design revolves around a new urban axis encircling the old Shilin district, reconstructing the urban structure, the old paper factory, and the surrounding areas. The axis connects Shilin's public transportation, cultural history, natural resources, community neighborhoods, and campuses, creating a new public corridor. To support the future industrial development of the Shilin area and its surroundings, the design integrates conference and exhibition functions with some of the old factories, creating a duality between the new and old buildings. Along the curved ground level, continuous new commercial functions are established to revitalize the surrounding neighborhoods. The conference center is elevated above the ground level, offering citizens new perspectives on the old Shilin district.
Convention/ Hotel/ Housing
Open Green Space for the Community
Housing Convention Hall Hotel
Renovation of the Historical Buildings
Roof Garden
Food Court Footbridge
Exhibition Hall Community Theatre Shopping Mall
Facing the Historical Buildings and the New Urban Complex
Grand Hall
Concourse
Conference Hall
Hub : Sending and Delivering People
Big Roof : Celebrating the Past and the Future
Convention Hall : Forward the City
Hotel & Housing : Providing an Invisible Sense of the volume
Promenade along the Libary
Category: Library
Term: 2023 Spring
Instructor: Chun-chieh Fang, Jen-Huan Ho
Collaborated with Shi-Han Huang
The library lies quietly on the ground, surrounded by sea views, seamlessly connecting the seaside and the library interior with gentle slopes. The simple design of the façade creates a flow between indoor and outdoor spaces. The experience of wandering extends from the outside to the inside, with large open spaces and several intersecting gentle ramps allowing people to freely move through the library. Along the sides of the ramps, glass exhibition rooms and discussion spaces are suspended, combining the pathways of wandering and exhibitions to create multidimensional activities and interactions.
Setback: to provide open green spaces
Bend: to surround the sea shore
Pinch up: to emphasize the public building itself
Exterior landform with slight grade
Push: to create flows from outdoor to indoor
Ramps connecting through the whole library
Floating Boxes allowing various programs Sunroofs for natural light
A gymnasium is not only a place which provides a space for activities and competitions, but also where people can watch and can be watched. Accordingly, the court space is as important as the auditorium. In this proposal, the gymnasium combines the characteristics of crystalization – independence and interspersion, which reduce the formality of the gymnasium. Even though the court space still the centricity within the gymnasium, the audience’s multiple viewing perspectives in order to create a new and atypical viewing experience are more emphasized. Also, the interspersion of the massing makes itself fit the surroundings.
Triclinic Crystal System
The Triclinic Crystal System is the most asymmetrical among all crystal systems. There is no mirror symmetry relationship within a triclinic crystal, making it highly variable. Under the stimulation of the external environment, several crystal units will start growing on a specific point but in different directions and speed, which makes each unit be embedded with another. After the crystal blooms, the relationship between each unit and the center is defined.
