Portfolio Min-Shan, Tsai 2008-2012
CONTENTS
01 Rearrange Street House
Residential and Commercial Mixed-Use Loction: Tainan, Taiwan
02 Combining Blocks
Housing Community Loction: Tainan, Taiwan
03 Recycle, Reuse, Respond Expo Rest Station Loction: Movable
Other Works
The Sensori-motor City Workshop
Exhibition Location : New York_Parsons The New School for Design
Sketch & Painting
01 Rearrange Street House Residential and Commercial Mixed-Use 2010 Loction: Tainan, Taiwan The oldest crossroad was the earliest developed area in Tainan. With the flourishing business of this area, residents strove for the space by the side streets to earn more opportunity, therefore, the architecture form of the street house appeared. One of the most significant characters of the architecture form of the street house is long and narrow, sharing the same walls between one and another, which is also a great limit to the usage of space. With a transformed architecture form of the street house, there are freer usage for the street houses, allowing more kinds of activities to happen in the same area and bringing new life to the original place and business.
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Remaining Typical Street House in Tainan
Tainan, as the earliest developed city in Taiwan, is a city with architecures built in different periods in the history. One of the common type of architecture is street house, which was the shop-house type of building first introduced by the Japanese about 100 years ago. The street house is long and narrow, sharing the same walls between one and another. Nowadays, there are still some typical street houses remain in Tainan. Some remains the original look, some are deconstructed, still some are developed into new form. The developed form of street house is creating more usage to the spaces, and it also becomes a trend in Tainan to reform the space of typical buildings while combining the ancient and present.
Typical Street House Architecture Form traditional form
modern form
1st inner space condo
2nd inner space
ground floor
-shop
-residence (mutual)
1st floor
-storage
-residence (private)
modern street houses - mutual wall - connected arcade area - shop & residence
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Site
Taiwan
Tainan
Middle West District
Tainan was the first developed city in Taiwan, and there are many historic spots in Middle West District of Tainan. The site lies at the oldest crossroad, the earliest developed area in Tainan. With the flourishing business of this area, residents strove for the space by the side streets to earn more opportunity, therefore the most common architeture form here is street house.
the Oldest Crossroad in Tainan
West Side
housing
bakery storage
housing
empty house
bakery
storage
narrow alley
theatre
theatre
housing
ticket window
-with a continuous arcade but only a few shops -how to make theatre audience stay longer ?
East Side
parking area
for rent
shop
-empty space in corner use as parking area for theatre -how can it respond with the theatre in a closer way?
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housing
housing
corner
corner
Program Original
New
[theatre] -second-run theatre -still remains hand drawing movie posters
[gallery] -as a mutual space between business and housing -themes focus on videos and digital projects
[studio] -accompanies with gallery -invite artists long stay and work with local
[bakery] -taiwanese traditional handmade bakery -over 100 years’ history
[shop] -audiences can spend time before and after the movie -theatre-related and gallery-related shop
[restaurant] -accompanies with bakery -provide seats and take out service
Space Strategy Original Space Experience -each house is like a tube (individual narraw and long space) -the only connection among them is the mutual wall -activities are blocked in each space
upper level -belongs to resident -residence
street level -entrance at street side -shops
Strategy I -change size -pile up
Strategy II
-change direction -create new transition space
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B’
C
A
2
b
6 7 c
3 1 3 8 3
3
b’
5 c’
A’
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01 ticket window 02 shop 03 gallery 04 bakery 05 bakery kitchen 06 storage 07 bar 08 bar balcony
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Ground Floor Plan scale : 1/800
C’ B
2 11
9 6 9 3 3 8 3
10
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02 shop 03 gallery 06 storage 08 bar balcony 09 theatre 10 studio 11 restaurant
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First Floor Plan scale : 1/800
13 9 9
15 8 15 15
14 15
08 restaurant balcony 09 theatre 13 theatre office 14 sharing room 15 individual room Second Floor Plan scale : 1/800
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A-A’ Section scale : 1/800
a-a’ Section scale : 1/800
B-B’ Section scale : 1/800
b-b’ Section scale : 1/800
C-C’ Section scale : 1/800
c-c’ Section scale : 1/800
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First Floor -restaurant and its balcony -half-floor difference in elevation
Ground Floor -bar and its balcony -half-floor difference in elevation
Second Floor -theatre office, studios living area -spaces are seperated
First Floor -theatre, gallery and studios -spaces are connected -modifiable usage
d [in i the h day] d Faรงade scale : 1/800
Ground Floor -bakery, gallery and shops -circulation enables more activitiess
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Faรงade [in the night] scale : 1/800
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02 Combining Blocks Housing Community 2008
Loction: Tainan, Taiwan
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Site
Taiwan
Tainan
An-Ping An-Ping is one of the oldest harbor in Taiwan, it is also famous forthe old streets zone. The site of this housing community is in An-Ping district, and it’s located by the river side which is near to the harbor.
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Concept
LEGO - module - structure - stackable
1 UNIT
W × D × H 6m × 6m × 3m - within 2 floors - multiple joint possibility -differs from orientations
4 UNIT
service core
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scale : 1/400
Type A
A-1
Lower Floor
Type B
Upper Floor
B-1
Lower Floor
Type C
A-2
Upper Floor
B-2
Upper Floor
C-1
Lower Floor
Lower Floor
Lower Floor
Upper Floor
C-2
Upper Floor
Lower Floor
Upper Floor
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Ground Floor Plan unit seperated
floor seperated
B1 Plan
as a system
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1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
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03 Recycle, Reuse, Respond Temperary Shelter 2009 Loction: Movable
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Site
Taiwan
Tainan
In Taiwan, people enjoy drinking tea everyday. Because of the weather and the rapid city life, there are lots of tea shops providing cold and take-out drinks. The drinking business became a part of Taiwanese life. In the high-density area, the business competition between the tea shops is very intense. Take Tainan city for example, in the denset area (East district and Middle-West district), there are approximately 200 tea shops within 9 km². And in the most competitive area, there are 7 tea shops in 100 meter of one road.
Drinking Business and Disposible Cups Due to the character of the drinking business--fast and take-out, the disposible cups are widely used in tea shops. The materials of disposible cups includes paper, plastics and polystyrene. Among the materials, plastic is mostly used. These materials are recyclable. If the cups are thrown as litter, they occupied a lot of space and cause some environmental problems. On the other hand, if they are recycled properly, the cleaners can pile them up.
1.5 billion
cups per yearr
≒ 55000 CO2 Tons
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Materials and Construction The concept of this temperary shelter is by using the disposible cups to remind people of the consumption of resources. The other materials used in the temperary shelter are commonly used in Taiwan, including angle steel as structure, corrugated sheet and canvas as roof surface and wire netting as wall. By using this materials, the temperary shelter can be built in a low budget so it can be used as rest station for expo and other activities. And the other character of the construction of the temperary shelter is module, and therefore it become a portable construction that can be build up and taken up to other places.
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roof surface
or
corrugated sheet
structure
angle steel
canvas
frame
filling
wire netting
plastic cup
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The Sensori-motor City Workshop
Exhibition Location : New York_Parsons The New School for Design
In the Sensori-motor City workshop, we had chances to work with teachers from the Drawing Lab Team in Parsons The New School. The Drawing Lab team includes interdisciplinary teachers. We held the exhibition with the teachers. Started from analyzing three directors’ films (YasujirĹ? Ozu, Godard , Cassavetes) and the results of the workshop in Taiwan, and carry on with the form of the exhibition. We worked on arranging the gallery, rehearsing the actions of the films, and drawing the movements and the space to simulate video camera.
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YasujirĹ? Ozu
Tracing Movements
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Godard
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Cassavetes
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Sketch &Painting
Travel_Amesterdam
Sketch 2012
15CM x 10CM 23
Abstract
Oil painting 2010 72CM x 60CM 24