AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE ARTS INDUETRY AND A DECLINE PLACE

The issues of performance art industry in Taiwan

A large number of music festivals and various performing arts activities are gathered in Taipei and brought the energy of local incomes, tourisum and culture to the peak; however, after the exhibition, the energy also disappeared. Meanwhile, the lack of performance practice space and work area has become a tough challenge for some large performance groups such us Cloud Gate, which is the most famous dance group in Taiwan.

WE NEVER HAVE A HOME.

---- YE, WEN-WEN/ CEO of CLOUD GATE. Create a base for performance arts industry

A home for the performing arts industry can not only gives artists better place to create but also transform the local industry and bring commercial opportunities apart from tourism.

I am enthusiastic about music and performing arts and have participated in several music groups since I was little. After having those experiences of joining the performance arts industry in Taiean, my partner and I found that transient performance activities and transient consumption behaviors can only bring temporary energy of culture to the land. Moreover, Taiwan’s performmce arts industry has been facing problems such as insufficient practice space, so we hope to create a performing arts base, integrate the needs of the performing arts industry from creative practice to performance, and create a home for performnce arts workers to achieve their dreams. Furthermore, "Nature is the source of the dance" -Isadora Duncan. Nature is a vital element not only for artists but also for every people in Taiwan, which triggers us to consider the possibility of co-existence between performnce arts base and natural enviroment.

An opportunity of regeneration

ShueiNanDong used to be the largest gold-copper smelter in East Asia. After the gold mining industry shut up in 1987, the surrounding villages gradually declined and ageing with high vacant rate(39.05%). However, ShueiNanDong might be suitable for a performance art base, since it has lots of redundant space and buildings and convenient traffic location, which is an opportunity for regeneration. Introducing a new industry will not only promote the development of surrounding villages but also prevent them from over-relying on the recreation industry and achieve a win-win situation by providing housing and living facilities.

Reuse And Conservation

Remaining buildings of Shueinandong

The ruins and remaining buildings (16 remaining buildings with varied sizes and forms) has sat in Shueinandong for more than 30 years without any reuse strategies, they are possibilities for different reuse or conservation.

DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION - minimal and gentle design methods

Strategy

Introduce performance art industry

Reuse and intergrate the large industrial remains and the beside outdoor space for a sound, complete and flexible performance arts base.

Embodiment of the third landscape

"The third landscape" is conducted by French botanist Gilles Clement which means nature taking over the abandoned land, repairing industrial relics, and showing natural vitality.

Shueinandong is famous for its spectacular landscape and ruins, which countless Miscanthus will cover most of the land and industrial remains and turn the site snowy-white in autum. Those pioneer plants formed a stable and rich ecosystem, and naturally repaired a large amount of historical wounds as time goes by. Shueinandong has become the most authentic embodiment of the third landscape in Taiwan.

Facing the brownfield with stable natural ecology and surrounding villages, a minimal and gentle design is adopted while evaluating the degree of the disturbance on the site.

Enhence northeast recreation system Respect the third landscape

Shueinandong own it status as the transportaion hub of northeast recreation system. Improve service facilities and upgrate the traffic situation.

The vertical zoning - seperate different users in site

Retain the original characteristics of the base, development should be considerably minimized and limited. Arouse the awarness of protecting and appreciating the third landscape.

Considering the size and structural damage level of the industrial remains, as well as the accessibility.

Take advantages of current retaining walls and the large elevation range (120m in total), creating a base without interference of other users. The recreation service uses the cableway system for vertical connection. The facilities for community are placed on the same elevation to become resident-friendly. The remain area maintains unchange to conserve the natural ecology and the feature of The third landscape.

The third landscape buffer zone - retain the original landscape of Shueinandong the conservation area plays as a buffer zone between users, which separates the use of sightseeing and performance art.

Performance Arts Base

Complete a sound base by providing practice and performance area for artists through remodling the remain buildings and verticle connections.

coppersmelter 1 transforms into Main Building provide:

2410M2 workspace for more than 150 artists

1. zoning by function coppersmelter 2 transforms into Performance Hall provide:

600 seats Huge Auditorium

300 seats Small Auditorium arround 2724 M2 community space

2. stagger and create voids

3. create communication and connection between different groups

4. import air and sunlight through different materials tank transforms into Concert Terrace provide: arround 5550 M2 performance area for about 3000~4500 audients for about 40~50 tents in

Transform the interior space into a working space suitable for differents performing arts group, including drama, dance and music. Place in a semi-outdoor space(the light box)to import Yin-yang Sea scenery, ecology and sunlight by tearing down a part of original wall.

Retain the wall structure, and restore the pitched steal roof structure for emphasizing histoical memory. The space is comfort and bright by introducing a double porch to the original entrance to withstand strong northeast monsoon and utilizing glass materials. At night, it will have spectaculer appearances due to the indoor lights, which looks like several light boxes embaded in the building.

Out door performance area used to be the old sedimentation tank, which was backfilled with concrete and sealed after it stopped working. Audience can now feel the past spatial perception through miscanthus 2~3 meters height growing surrounding the sedimention structure and paths transforming from previous sedimentation tank.

Recreation System

Tourism service facilities

Shueinandong is the endpoint of the Northeast Recreation System (Shueinandong Jinguashi and Jiufen). Improve the current condition and service facilities by supplementing the accomadation demand and upgrating the traffic situation.

At the same time, reuse Layer 1517 of smelter remains which have complete interior space and perfect window’s views into Yin-yang Sea are suitable to be turned into a hotel. It can not only supplement turists requirement toward accomadation but also provide job opportunities and financial sources for local residents.

Reuse the original cableway which are used to transport mines and provide a cableway system for connected tourist spots. Cableway relieves the parking pressure of the recreation system.

Turn the power station remains into a museum, which exhibits the history and the third landscape outside the window. The original basement of 13 layer smelter is opened to become a corrider connected between the museum and cableway.

Ecological Parking Lots

Fragment the original large and mixed use concrete parking lot and turns it into rainwater garden parking lot. It absorbed a large amount of surface runoff from the Shueinandong mountains, repaired the landscape that damaged by artificial concrete before.

Shueinandong has the function of the transportation transfer station, including private cars, motorcycles, tour buses, light rail, and cableway systems. In response to the great difference of parking demand during the peak and off-peak seasons in the recreation area, planning flexible expansion parking spaces.

Desire to retain and cherish the original characteristic of site. Reuse remains and the land in a careful and gentle way. Meanwile, create spaces to experience and appriciate the third landscape in Shueinandong.

The 30-meter on the east side of an old 60-meter-diameter reservoir has been fully taken over to become a wetland rich in ecology, which is the most favorable evidence for the third landscape.

The sound of wetland animals and plants is transmitted to ear through 20 cm of light water. Human activities do not interfere the ecology, but can hear the nature. The ruin storage the sound of the third landscape and has become a landscape phonograph of shueinandong.

The third landscape becomes the source of natural sound . Through water, human activities do not interfere the ecology, but can hear the nature. The sound is transmitted through light water, and the water surface is near by ears. People can both hear and see the sound texture. The raised and circular concrete wall reflects sound waves and storage the sound of nature.

The eighteenth layer of the smelter is used to preserve and illustrate the unique native plants of Shuiyudong because of its funnel-shaped form, and it has become a gene bank for conservation of Shueinandong and has given it educational significance.

13th Nationl student Design competition (during the final project) theme: listen to landscape date: 2019/11/9 ranking: the second place partner: Chuan Chen

Hear the third landscape of Shueinandong

The third landscape refers to all the land abandoned or neglected by human beings. Nature has untouchable power and strong autonomy. Therefore, it can be regarded as the genetic base of the earth, regulating the future of the creature and changing the definition of the land. After the exit of the gold mining industry in Shueinandong, miscanthus and pioneer plants deducted a stable and rich ecosystem, which naturally reinterpreted the appearance of the land of Shueinandong and also became the most authentic embodiment of the third landscape in Taiwan.

The dance of wind and the third landscape creates a unique soundscape of the shueinandong. Using nature, terrain and existing ruins structures, listen to nature's autonomy with the minimum design method, plan the greatest path to hear the sound, and design the space for hearing the soundscape of the shueinandong.

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