2019 Architecture Portfolio by Bernard Chiang

2019 & Certificate of Ecological Architecture

Yu-Te Chiang Education

+1 626 426 2786 chiangyu@design.upenn.edu | benardchiang@gmail.com

Master of Architecture Certificate of Ecological Architecture architectural association exchange studio University of Pennsylvania - School of Design - Department of Architecture Philadelphia, USA

Aug. 2015 - May 2019

Graduate Level Coursework National Chiao-Tung University - Graduate Institute of Architecture Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (R.O.C)

Sep. 2014 - June 2015

Bachelor of Science National Taiwan University - Department of Geography Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C)

Honors

Sep. 2009 - Sep. 2013

Future Library Competition - Honorable Mention

Genoa, Italy May 2019

CODE (Competition for Designers) / University of Genoa

South Gate International Master Plan Design Competition - Purchased KKBK Kiemelt Kormรกnyzati Beruhรกzรกsok Kรถzpontja Nonprofit Zrt

Pressing Matters 7 - Studio project selected University of Pennsylvania - School of Design - Department of Architecture

7th LIXIL International student architecture competition - Finalist Lixil JS Foundation / Kengo kuma associates

Van Alen Architecture travelling fellowship - Finalist Van Alen Institute

Chen Wen-Chen Memorial plaza competition - 1st Popularity Prize National Taiwan University

Budapest, Hungary Dec. 2018

Philadelphia, USA June 2017

Tokyo, Japan Apr. 2017

Philadelphia, USA Apr. 2017

Taipei, Taiwan June 2016

Experiences UNStudio

Blaak 20-24 - Facade Design Budapest South Gate International Master Plan Design Competition/KKBK Green Spine/Beulah International - Conceptual Design

Amsterdam, Netherlands Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2019

SLA A/S Tsinghua science museum competition Beijing Tongzhou green heart masterplan competition Manila Parliament house comepetition Amager Bakke Resource center - Schemetic Design

Copenhagen, Denmark Feb. 2018 - July 2018

OP - Architecture Landscape Lyons Residence - Construction Documentation 2017 Burnham Price Comepetition Entry

New York City, USA Aug. 2017 - Sep. 2017

Fernando Romero Enterprise Mexloop - Hyperloop one global challenge winning team Se77antasette Benetti Yacht - Interior Design SABA Tower - Interior Design, Construction Documentation Swarovski Gallery - interior Design

New York City, USA July 2017 - Aug. 2017

Canno Design Multiple Residential projects - Interior/Facade design Multiple Retail projects - Interior/Facade design

GAD Architecture The Istanbul MRTR complex - Construction Documentation

Skills

Architecture Design AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Maya, Maxwell, Z-brush, Enscape

Graphic Design Adobe suite

Energy simulation Ladybug, honeybee, Energyplus

Spatial Analysis Geographic Information System

Documentation Microsoft office Suite, OS X Suite

Philadelphia, USA Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2017

Istanbul, Turkey June 2016 - Aug. 2016

01 La Sabana Generator

2019 PennDesign LARP 704 Studio Cross-disciplinaries Landscape + Urban Design Studio | Bogota, Colombia

This studio is a case study which seeks to formulate alternative urbanization scenarios and explore new design tools that will guide urban growth whilst simultaneously fostering habitat conservation and restoration in a symbiotic manner. The Bogotá Studio is part of a larger research initiative in the landscape department at Penn. Richard Weller’s ‘Atlas for the End of the World’ has audited land use in the world’s biodiversity hotspots and identified the conflict zones between urban growth and biodiversity in these hotspots. The Atlas has identified that over 90 per cent of the major cities in the world hotspots are rapidly expanding in direct conflict with endangered species, and doing so in a relatively unplanned manner. In association with the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology the research is now focused on a set of 33 of the biggest of these cities, more or less one in each hotspot. In June 2019 the landscape department will host delegates from these cities along with representatives from the UN and major conservation NGOs to discuss how destructive sprawl into biodiverse landscapes can be mitigated.2 Bogota, within the Tropical Andes hotspot has been selected as a case study in this research project and is supported by the University of Pennsylvania’s Global Engagement Fund.

Bogota and La Sabana 2050

Bogota is the capital of Colombia and sits within the Tropical Andes hotspot where there is severe conflict between biodiversity preservation and rapid urbanization. The project is a case study which seeks to formulate alternative urbanization scenarios and explore new design tools that will guide urban growth whilst simultaneously fostering habitat conservation and restoration in a symbiotic manner. Without a an environmental/territorial/urban vision, it is not difficult to foresee that ‘business as usual’ growth will result in a fragmented and dysfunctional urban system, in the virtual elimination of the remaining ecosystems, the loss of valuable agricultural land, the reduction of the production of flowers, and the encroachment of urbanization on sensitive habitats located at the urban fringe, on ecological corridors and patches, with a significant loss of biodiversity.

EXISTING PROTECTED AREA

EXISTING URBAN

ECOLOGICAL CORRIDOR

URBAN EXPANSION

RIPARIAN CORRIDOR

AIRPORT

STEWARDS AND CIVIC SPACES

METRO

WATER BODY

LIGHT RAIL

AGRO-FORESTRY

CARGO ROAD

PROTECTED AGRICULTRAL LAND

0.5

8 Miles

La Sabana Generator - Design Strategy

2-1

Transportation Hub

Innovative Industry

AIRPORT CITY

This project takes the thriving flower industry and the new proposed airport as catalysts for an urban design proposal that: 1) preserves and restores the local ecology 2) creates an airport related economic zone and 3) preserves agricultural land and

La Sabana Generator

Urban Oasis

4) includes informal urban development within urban planning so as to improve equity in the city.

Capital of Flower

2-2

Re-wet

Forestry

(a) Creating a ring of public spaces, leisure transportation system, and recreational-habitat paths between the Green Heart and the urban areas, accompanied by urban stewards system. (b) Ensuring that large tracks of the Green Heart are dedicated to ecological services and productive uses. This includes areas for water management, ecological corridors, for reforestation programs, and for high-efficient agriculture zone.

Green Heart

Water Management

GREEN HEART

Nursery

(c) Locating stewards that will contribute to foster ecological services and habitat restoration as universities, research centers, botanical gardens, environmentally-focused NGOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, etc., (d) Transferring development rights from land located in the Green Heart and other protected areas to the new urban districts to allow preservation efforts to also make financial profits.

La Sabana Generator New International Airport

GREEN HEART

El Dorado International Airport

BOGOTA D.C.

0.3125

1.25

2.5

3.75

5 Miles

La Sabana as Productive Landscape The gentle topography of La Sabana, its mild climate, rich soils, and availability of water, with an area of 1,641.6 square miles, provides Bogota with a large amount of cultivable farmland, including the production of flowers -the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main export product-, supplying the huge demand of fresh-cut flowers in North America. While Colombia is the second largest flower produce country of the world, the Bogota area produces 76% of all the fresh flowers in Colombia.

The agricultural landscape of La Sabana is not only productive; it is also a cultural symbol of Bogotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity. However, due to its relatively low efficiency, the sprawl of the flower industry and lack of public transportation, the identity of La Sabana is eroding. Moreover, Bogota City is now importing a large percentage of food from other countries and local farmers and flower workers are poorly paid. Based on our research, Clombia should strive to become like the Netherlands, which produces 5 times more potatoes and four times more flowers than Colombia with only 4.17% of its agriculture land.

16 Miles

Legend

Market

Water

Airport

Agriculture Heterogeneas

Flower Green House

Pasto

Banana Potato

Prmeanent Cultivationt

Cereales

Transitioning Cultivation

Forestry

Urban

Flower

Population Growth and Urban Expansion

Bogota is the capital of Colombia, with a population of close to 9 million inhabitants, and an additional 1.5 million living in smaller communities located in the adjacent agricultural lands of the La Sabana of Bogotá. The continuing population growth and “business as usual” urbanization pattern of Bogota, is causing the elimination of its wetlands and farmland. In recent years, 50% of the population of Bogota live in self-constructed settlements that lack essential public service and open space.

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The gentle slope and abundant wetland resource of La Sabana not only make it a perfect land for agriculture but also make it easy to be urbanized. According to 2050 demographic projections, there will be 4 million more people in Bogota and around half of this population will likely live in self-constructed settlements. Without intelligent urban planning it is not difficult to foresee that ‘business as usual’ growth will result in the virtual elimination of the remaining ecosystems, the loss of valuable agricultural land, the reduction of the production of flowers, and the encroachment of urbanization on sensitive habitats located at the urban fringe, on ecological corridors, and patches, with a significant loss of biodiversity.

Bogota & La Sabana population 2050 projection

17,000,000

10,000,000

3,000,000

2016 9.94MM

2030 11.77MM

+1.83 MM

4-2

Formal and Informal Settlement Population

2050 13.87MM

+2.1 MM

+3.93 M

5.89M

Formal Settlement

4.17M

Informal Settlement

Year

2016

2030

2050

Present Built Area 496.84 km^2 Population 9.94 M Population Density 20006.44/km^2

Santa Rosa

+1.4M

Van der Hammen

(35.5% of 2050 population growth)

La Penas Las Mercedes

+0.27M

+0.57M La Punta

+0.37M Vilamery

+0.2M

El Corzo Bojoca Madrid

+0.23M Mosquera

+0.67M

2050 Projection Built Area 496.84 km^2 +150.64 km^2 Chacua

+9K

La Gran Bretana

+0.22M 0.3125

1.25

2.5

3.75

5 Miles

Population 9.94 M +3.93 M Population Density 21424.16/km^2

Airport-Centered District - Comprehensive Growth System

The National Government has proposed constructing a new Airport to the west of the Green Heart. This new airport is meant to handle predominantly cargo, leaving the existing airport for passenger travel.

Mobility+T

The new airport al government w build a regional a internal commu The TOD urban c centrating urban mobility and new ishing pressures

We envision a new 21st-century airport city, accommodating 1.7 million of the future population growth of Bogota, and providing job opportunities, good living conditions and public facilities for people in all social strata, with comprehensive planning of quality/incentive zoning, blue and green infrastructure and public spaces system, efficient public transportation, and innovative urban design strategies. The Airport City is anchored on the Green Heart, reveling a productive, high tech, flower production and metropolitan amenities segment.

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Living Quality Pedestrian and bike Alameda interconnect the urban areas with the ecological corridors, Parks, Amenities and the Green Heart, accompanied by urban stewards such as: parks, universities and libraries, and exhibition, providing more green space for the future residents.

Flower Capital Flower fairground, market and expo make the flower industry more visble to the public to anchor the agricultre industry upgrade. Flower production become an important component of the urban system adjacent to the Green Heart.

TOD

proposed by the nationwill anchor investment to l transportation system and ute public transit system. configuration allows connization along the existing w growth corridors, dimins on the Green Heart.

ndustry Upgrade

ransforming of the existing low-efficient asture land into agro-forest, upgrading he agriculture industry into high-efficient nd less land-occupied industrialize agriulture. arge industrial uses are also relocated n proximity to the New Airport to foster conomic changes, and to brings jobs and enefits to the residents in the self-contructed and lower-income areas

Food Security By diversifying and increasing agricultural productivity, a productive food bowl will be secured for the future population growth

Water Management By collecting water at the foot of cloud forest (highlands), building rainwater collection system through green boulevards, and expanding the wetland buffer at the sides of the two rivers run through the site, more water is collected for future uses, the urban wastewater and agriculture wastewater are recycled and filtered by the wetland and green streets.

Green and Blue Corridors - A Comprehensive Environmental Infrast

6-1

Water Management Plan and Environmental Infrastructure

Ecological corridors feed into and extend out from the Green Heart. Through a series of wetlands the Green Heart also connects to the Bogota River, which we also propose as a riparian corridor of landscape restoration. This â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue Veinâ&#x20AC;? provides opportunities to develop a sustainable water management system and a green space system for the whole city. Two secondary ecological corridors and the variegated river system of the site provide opportunities to develop a sustainable water management system and a green space system. By collecting water at the foot of cloud forest (highlands), building rainwater collection system through green boulevards, and expanding the wetland buffer at the sides of the two rivers run through the site, more water is collected for future uses, the urban wastewater and agriculture wastewater are recycled and filtered by the wetland and green streets. The linear green space system connects the Green Heart and the highlands at the north and provides essential animal migration corridor. Alameda, the city bike lane system, is also proposed along with the public green space, e.g., Green Heart, flower fairground and linear river park, to activate the open green space.

tructure

6-2

Conceptual Section - Urban Water Cycle

Water Treatment

Water Collection Wetland Filtration

Community Agriculture

Water Filtration

Public Space

Urban Agriculture

Local Grey Water Treatment

Public Space

Waste Water Treatment

Waste Water Filtration

Wetland Filtration

Agriculture

6-3

Conceptual Section: Farmland Water Cycle

Wetland

Water Collection Wetland Filtration

Agriculture

Green House

Agriculture

Wetland Filtration

Waste Water Treatment

Flower Industry + Intensive Agriculture Water Recycle

Forestry

Wetland Filtration

Forestry

Productive La Sabana - A Hybrid-Machine for Agriculture and Indus

7-1

Productive Components

Agriculture of La Sabana is not only an important economic activity but also a cultural component of Bogotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and more recently so is flower production. However, productivity is low compared to other agricultural and flower production cities/nations, farmers are making low income, and large tracks of land are underutilized. We introduce high-yielding experimental agriculture fields and vertical greenhouses, supported by research institutions, and in proximity to new public Universities, and flower/agriculture fairground, and conference centers and a food distribution center. We are hoping this area can revitalize the food cultivation industry and culture in the future. By verticalizing agriculture production, less land can produce more flower and food, crops that require different sunlight condition can be arranged on different levels, agriculture production can also be rotated easily. We also introduce international agriculture fairground landscape, conference center, agriculture expo programs, and flower labor union center into this area. In the short term, this program will invite more foreign investment to the flower industry.

stry

7-2

Agriculture+Industry Components

New Town Development around Airport - Multi-Mobility System and S

8-1

Multi-Mobility System and Strategic Urban Development

This new airport is meant to handle predominantly cargo, leaving the existing airport for passenger travel. We propose a new airport city as a generator for the economic growth and ecological innovation for Bogota. Also, the building limit of the flight path makes the north and the south side of the new airport an appropriate location for industry, high-tech services and manufacturing for Bogota. We envisioned the investment in such strategic infrastructure as a unique opportunity that will allow: a) Propelling a new multiuse and socially diverse district reverting the dormitory-city and segregated patterns that have characterized the urbanization of the Municipalities of La Sabana, b) Providing efficient public transportation to the Airports and new districts. The city will be connected with the region, not only by the Metro system, the regional roads, the pedestrian and bike friendly links, but also by a light rail which take advantage of a right of way of a defunct rail way that for decades was the main linked Bogota to the lowlands and the international markets. BRT and bus systems, and bike lanes supplement the mobility framework, and provide easier internal connection. c) Providing community-based stewards such as schools, hospitals, libraries, sport facilities, etc., close to mobility systems, as also to prevent urban encroachment in the periphery of the districts onto agricultural land and protected areas.

Strategic Urban Development

7-2

Mode 1 - Mobility system x Commercial Corridor x Public services x Green Corridor

7-3

Mode 2 - Mobility system x Commercial Corridor x Mix-Stratas Residential District

La Sabana Generator

The construction of the New Airport, the comprehensive planning of the mobility systems, the protected and created ecologies, and the proposed flower production and industrial framework, and experimental/high-yielding agriculture, can result in: increased passenger service of 35 million per year, the provision 2 twice the amount of green, recreational spaces and protected areas that those currently offered in the Municipality of Bogota, in $1480 million of new revenue from flower exports and industrial/manufacturing production and related jobs, and the possibility of providing food for 60% of the population of the new district.

Mix-use Commercial District

New International

Car

2X Green Space According to Boorgotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s POT, the minimum green space per capital is 4.4m^2. Within future urban development of La Sabana generator, it could provide 2 times green space to its residents.

35 Million The new airport with itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 750 MIillion initial designed capacity/year, will expect to be expanded to 35M passengers per year.

Hi-Tech Agriculture + Warehouse

85%+ With the construction of water management infrastructure, La Sabana could actually help to infuse more water back to La Sabana and Green Heart. (Current stream return rate is 85%)

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0.66

1.33 Miles

Flora Expo Fair Ground

847,000

(60% of population)

With advance vertical agriculture technology and verticalized greenhouse farm, La Sabana Generator has the potential to feed up to 847,000 people.

$1480 Million With advance vertical agriculture technology and verticalized greenhouse farm, La Sabana Generator has the potential to double up revenues from flower export.

Industry District

l Airport

rgo Center

Mix-use Residential District

Agro-Tourism District

10 Community Identity In the short term, flower and agriculture-related programs will invite more foreign investment to the flower industry. However, in the long time, we can foresee that these programs will bring not only flower but also other Colombiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agriculture products to the world, the economic benefit from the flower industry can support the local agriculture development in return. More jobs will be creating for the future growing population, and the labor will also face less inequity issue.

RESEARCH

JOBS

EDUCATION

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY SERVICE LEGAL SERVICE

INDUSTRY

AGRICULTURE

FUTURE

UPGRADE 2.0 Local food production took place of the flower industry, supporting local residents, providing jobs, improving local economy.

PAST

BEFORE 15TH CENTURY Indigenous farming approach on La Sabana, La Sabana is mainly occupied by wetlands.

16TH CENTURY Farmers started to sew crops all year, while herding and ranching was also stimulated in La Sabana.

COMMUNITY SERVICE & TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL

18TH CENTURY Eucalyptus and pines are introduced, wetlands were drought out.

19TH CENTURY Farmers started to sew crops all year, while herding and ranching was also stimulated in La Sabana.

UPGRADE ARGRICULTURE & INDUSTRY Agriculture move into greenhouses, greenhouses move up to the top of industrual warehouses.

1985 FLOWER INDUSTRY The United State - Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement caused flower industry on La Sabana, due to the ideal hydrological condition.

Present FLOWER INSUSTRY

COMMUNITY

The La Sabana produces 76% of the total flower exports in Colombia. Around 30-35 cargo planes loaded with flowers fly out of Colombia daily during peak season.

AIRPORT + TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

AGRICULTURE & INDUSTRY

LOW EFFICIENCY AGRICULTURE

Flower industry gather around the new airport, as well as other industries.

Most part of the La Sabana is currently used for grazing, with scattered parcels growing crops. The land is obviously underutilized and cannot support the food demand of local residents.

WATER SYSTEM DISCONNECTION The Rio Bogota is heavily poluted, the water system is fragmented, while only 1.6% of wetland remained.

11 La Sabana Generatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crown Jewels

R&D Tech Campus

Agro-Education Center

Agri-Tourism Green House

Flora Broadway River Front Alameda

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4 Miles

Experimental Field

City Sport Park

Water Treatment Plant Flower Worker Community Center

River Front Park Bike workshop & Supply

Riparian Forest

12 Flower Industry Environmental Infrastructure

12-1 Water Management Framework

The edge between the “Green Heart” and the industrial zone will be an important entrance for people to understand the agriculture value of Bogota. Alameda, the bike lane system will connect people from the regional “Green Heart” circuit to the agriculture fairground. Flower Field garden and Flower Expo architecture will attract both local and international visitors to experience, which will help Bogota to establish their flower and agriculture culture identity further. This landscape belt will also extend to the periphery area of the new airport city to provide public open space and facilities. The blue street network of the area recalls the agriculture landscape identity of La Sabana and the traditional rural water drainage system. As a part of the larger wetland and ecological system mentioned above, the street wetland and experimental field system, that trace the existing farmland fabric, will recycle and filter the water from the greenhouses, and integrate the area with the bigger regional landscape proposal, the “Green Heart.”

12-2 Water Management Components

River

Agriculture Canal

Alameda

Park

Constructed Wetland

Wetland

Local Grey Water Treatment

Farmland

Park

Waste Water Treatment

Rain Garden

13 Flower Industry Environmental Infrastructure

13-1 Water Management Framework

14 Vertical Agriculture Landscape By relocating the light-structure greenhouses that nowadays dot La Sabana in close proximity to the New Airport, it will allow concentrating and making more efficient the production of flowers, removing them from sensitive habitat areas and freeing valuable agricultural land (the flowers are grown in elevated planters), addressing the current water pollution problems (derived from fertilizers), recycling water, and making the flower industry more visible through flower fair grounds, marketing and visitorcenters, in proximity to public transportation. Flower production become an important component of the urban system adjacent to the Green Heart.

Rose

Carnation

Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day roses lead the pack among Colombian flowers. For Francisco Ricaurte, a general director of UPS in South America, the months leading up to Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day are peak season.

Colombian carnations are considered the best in the world for their quality, beauty and longevity. If you live in the US and have worn a carnation in your buttonhole, the chances are it came from Colombia.

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hrysanthemum

Alstroemeria Lily

Gerbera Daisy

sides the big ree(Rose, Carnation hrysanthemum), Coloma is also beloved for ooms including chrysanemums, lilies and Michlmas daisies.(2)

Lilium columbianum is a lily native to western North America. It is also known as the Columbia Lily or Tiger Lily (sharing the latter common name with several other species in its genus).

Gerberas are one of the most desired flowers for floral arrangements because of their broad range of colors and large flower heads. Gerberas resemble enormous daisies and can be used together to make lovely bouquets.

15 Ecological Vertical Agriculture

Industrial Warehouse

Green House

Higher Landuse Efficiency Lower Water Usage Lower Energy Consumption While the flower export is attracting foreign investment and creating job opportunities for Bogota, is consuming a large amount of Bogotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water resource and occupying valuable farmland while Bogota is importing food from other countries. The labors are working over-time for low wages. Therefore, in our airport district, we propose with the introduction of high yielding experimental agriculture fields and vertical greenhouses, supported by research institutions, and in proximity to two new public Universities, and flower/agriculture fairground, and conference centers and a food distribution center. Therefore, in the design of the agriculture industry zone, we are hoping this area can revitalize the food cultivation industry and culture in the future. By verticalizing agriculture production, less land can produce more flower and food, crops that require different sunlight condition can be arranged on different levels, agriculture production can also be rotated easily.

16 View through the future La Sabana

02 Digital Counterpole

Future Library Competition by CODE Honorable Mention | Genoa, Italy

Libraries are one of the most fascinating architectural examples of the history of mankind. As the library of Alexandria and the more recent masterpieces of contemporary architecture, the library has always been the center of collection of collective memory. It has always been the place where human experiences could be preserved, crystalized, made eternal. They could be passed on from ancient to new generations. In a way, the library has to do with eternity. It connects thoughts and experiences beyond space and time. It does so because it is a place, which human beings build in order to draw from the experience of their predecessors. It also does so because first of all the library is a great information collector. Up to date, history has been passing on such information through the union of paper and ink: books. Books used to need a specific archiving and consultation space. However, in the era of dematerialization, of virtuality and of the 4.0 world, information has become an impalpable sequence of codes. They are intangible sequences that any device can consult and decode in any moment and any place. Consequently, on one hand the virtual space is expanding. On the other hand, the physical space is losing ground. Now, including all the places that used to be constant elements of humankind over the centuries have to change connotations and features. The library is not a place of preservation and consultation anymore. This is because now the access to information goes beyond books. Therefore, what is the future for libraries? What is the library of the future? On the basis of these questions, the University of Genoa is delighted to launch Future Library. This is the design competition that invites young people from all over the world to think about the future of places dedicated to learning and knowledge. Through architecture, they will design a completely new model of learning space.

Concept - A new relationship create by future library

When we look back into human history, from the establishment of the first library to contemporary library architecture design towards the infinite future, the essence of a library as space has always lain between two key elements - individual knowledge storage and collective information sharing.

Therefore, the project position itself on this infinity dialogue. Furthermore, by deploying digital interface within the iconical industrial framework, to set up a pitching point between individuality and collectivity, public and private, the solidity of knowledge storage and the fluidity of information flow.

Knowledge