Chao-Fu Yeh Architectural Design Portfolio 2011-2015
Contents Ecology
01.Nature eutopia 2012 Academic Individual
Organization
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02.Analysis remanufactured 2010 Academic Individual
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Nature
03.Historical awakening 2012 Self-practice Individual
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Ecology
04.Horizontal connection 2011 Workshop competition Teamwork
Crafting space
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05.Digital design & hand made crafting
2014-2015 Research project Teamwork
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Nature eutopia:
sustainable relationship between nature and human behavior
台南城西焚化爐改造計畫 - 生態園區整體設計
Academic / 2012 / 5th year graduation thesis /individual work Advisor / Yu-Cheng Hung graduation thesis prize of department-outstanding prize creativity competition-form and design-2nd prize
Location / Taijiang National Park ,Tainan Taiwan Programe / Resort. Museum. Research station. Hostal. Area / 410000 m²
·Ironwood forest:protecting west taiwan coastline from being washed away;migrant birds’ periodical habitat ;egret’s permanent habitat. · Part of Taijiang National Park
· Tainain refuse incinerator / Waterpark / Waste landfill · Out of Taijiang National Park · Site
Site
Ecological protection zone ·Endangered species:Black-faced spoonbills habitat · Part of Taijiang National Park
Introduction: Taijiang area is used to be a huge lagoon, but filled and leveled up by rivers’ sediments. Now, the scale we can see is just the remain it leaved. Deu to the geographic and climatic reasons, it has abundant ecological resources. I still remember, when I was a child, my parents often took me to the coastline for sightseeing. The special landscape impressed me, beaches, fish ponds,and plenty of mangroves. Migrant birds could easily be seen;mudskippers and fiddler crabs could likely be touched in wetlands. The residents there live by fishing and fish-farming for hundreds of years. Nowaday, when I went back to the coastline, there has something changed. 03.
Taipei
Taiwain Tainan
The Black-faced Spoonbill is an endangered species in International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The precious birds visit Taiwain every Autumn to get through the winter. Nowaday, the amount of the species is declining in Tainan.
Seasons
in Taijiangnational park
Deu to the changing of economy, the fish farming industry changed the species of farming, and it also changed the type of farming. Although the consequence raises income to a part of fishmen, the ecology system has been changed.
Most of the villeages in this National Park are facing problems like aging population and emigration. How to pass down the native culture and wisdoms leaved by ancestors is definitely a hard task.
Constructing an incinerator near the conservation area is ironic to human beings. The ashes generated by it bury around the site. Animals bear to accept the toxicant produced by human;after all, these poisons will return to ourselves. The incinerator estimated can be used 20 years(1999-2019). What can we do after it retired ?
Issues of incinerator: As several advanced countries like Japan Germany, and Korea..., incinerator has already constructed in urban distirct, it shows respect and responsibility to nature.
Biologically, the incenerator constructed near the coastline where produces the basic food we eat every day is a serious problem. The area embraces fish ponds, an estuary, mangrove forest, oyster shed, and migrant birds habitat. The influence not only endanger animals there but also people who eated the food resources cultivated there;it’s called bioaccumulation.
Considering the different weather conditions of the site, I use ladscape and architecture arrangement as response.
Water level of Fish ponds Comparing with seasons and depth.
The entire plan focus on adding habitats of wild animals and creating more human-animal shared spaces.
Standing height 50-60cm
Grouper
Meretrix
The filled landfill remove to the other place under new landscape hill and it can produce biogas for energy using.
Eco-tourists and researchers will play important roles in national park, using original building and creating new hostal spaces can provide them a comfortable environment for stay in the area.
Autumn
Spring
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Spring
Leg length 20-30cm
Milk fish
The new topography divived the site into three parts, fist part is high human activity area, secondly is half human half animal activity area, the final part is entire animal activity area. Eco-education is an important part in national park. Let people understand what we have, and how to conserve them. So, part of the incinerator change into museum and set an eco-classroom in the site.
Seasonal breeding Continuosly breeding Continuosly breeding Milk fish cultivation history commenced from Ming Dynasty. It is also the common memory of citizens. Because of the cultivation way-breeding during spring to autumn, after breeding seasons the ponds will be drained away into low-level surface, the area become the best foraging ground for Black-faced Spoonbill and other migrators and local birds. For the past few years, the ecology of fish cultivation changed. Milk fish breeding becomes less valuable than grouper and meretrix breeding. Fishman begins to change the aquatic they used to breed. As a result, it affects the amount of Black-faced Spoonbill year by year.
Concept
Space tactics I try to rearrange local texture by landscape ways;ecology is the top most priority in the project. Then, adding creature-friendly spaces and removing the soil of the landfill to utilize it. Use and preserve the original concrete structure of retired incinerator(2019),and transform it into Aging people greenhouse museum, young hostel, and wet land research station. Proceeding with eco education, and creating job opportunities let local young people be willing to go back to their native place to rediscover and protect the lovely land. The landfill transform into a tidal wet land, the migrant birds and estuary Ecological conservation eco-system can have more living environment. Setting up two types of villas in appropriate distance and area, lets tourists there can experience the sensation which lives in nature again, achieving the meaning Incinerator of eco-education.
Economy & Income
Eco-tourism
Eco education
Sustainable development
The steel part of incinerator replace by greenhouse.
The original recycle warehouse position change into a hill for resist the chilly north winds. The small lagoon is an intermediate between museum area and villa area. Using the seawater penetrating the forest, stretch the aqueducts into new lagoon, the place which used to be a landfill.
Program: ◦ Greenhouse museum[Greenhouse, Restaurant, Hostal, Conference room, Bar] ◦ Eco-tourist resort[Reception center, Eco-classroom, Two types of villas] Takes carbon footprint and animal habitates into considerations. I set a parking lot and shuttle vehicle stations in the village near the site(2.5Km). Visitors have three kinds of way to get to the site, bus, bike,and golf cart(resort only). Visitors can take the bus to reach the museum. Travlers stay at resort can use golf carts to the site, and people with disabilities can move by it in the area. Visitors also can ride bikes to reach the museum.Tourists stay at resort and reasurcher can use these path to go hiking, sight-seeing, and bird-observation by bike or walk.
A 合院 in China represents not only notions of Feng shui(風水) but relationships between human and architecture and environment and architecture. The space arrangement of 合院 is according to the user’s status of the family and the microclimate of the room. I try to use the status and transform the relationship into nature and man-made spaces. Study process
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合院Prototype
Climate factor
Defineding space relationship
Interaction between human & nature
Nature factor combining
Three dimension 合院
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Considering the process how visitors entering the museum. I hope visitors first can enter a tunnel then groves, after get out of vehicle they can see mangroves and museum just like a vista.
Adjustiong the quantity of villa and the orientation of them.
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In winter, the chilly gale comes from north, and it makes outdoor people uncomfortable. In summer, the refreshing breeze comes from south, and the prevailing wind is sea and land breeze, people always stay beneath the trees or semi-outdoor spaces to enjoy the winds.
Reception center is also using landscape notion, strentching along the coast into two hierarchies. Tourists will be shuttled from village to here with golf carts. In reception center guests can take a break, check in, have a cup of coffee, and receive informations about here.
Exit of the park
Entrance of the park
Reception center of the park 1F Store, Cafe,ticket office Media room 2.3F Staffs’ Dorm
C Fish pound
Greenhouse Museum, Reaserch station Parking space for golf cart Sub-spaces 1F Kitcken, discharge area 2F Museum 3.4F Restaurant, mutipel using space 5.6F Hostal 7F Office
Reception center (check in, toilet, cafe)
Eco classroom Located on the top of the hill and embedded in the forest which is following the landscape stretching from ground to sky. The flexible doors extend the indoor space. In winter the door closes preventing the chilly wind; in summer the door opens, the environment combining with the architecture becoming a nature classroom. Eco classroom supplys local villagers and tourists a place for ecological teaching and exhibitions. Fishermen, oyster farmers, salt farmers, eco specialists, birdwatching specialists, and historians can share stories, experiences and Knowledge about this place here.
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Eco classroom
Cafe station
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Villa in hillside
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Lagoon Villa nears lagoon
Mangroves Habitates of birds
· In winter, chilly winds come from North-northeast, which will make people uncomfortable. · In summer, people enjoy the sea and land breeze under semi-outdoor spaces. · The plum rain season is from March to May. Using these climate characteristics as base combines with human using and the meaning of the constructions in Nature.
Area C. Eco classroom
Area D. Villas near lagoon
1st Floor Plan
Roof Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
Area B. Reception center
1st Floor Plan
The semi-outdoor spaces in the villa is reecting the characteristics of plum rains and tropical monsoon climate. These spaces coordinate closely with ventilation in appropriate time and directions. Let human, spaces, nature and climate maintain a dialectical relationship.
Roof Floor Plan 1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
SouthWest Elevation
Area 1. Villas in Hillside
A metaphor from local living combination
· In winter, chilly winds come from North-northeast, which will make people uncomfortable. · In summer, people enjoy the sea and land breeze under semi-outdoor spaces. · The plum rain season is from March to May. Using these climate characteristics as base combines with human using and the meaning of the constructions in Nature.
West Elevation
2nd. Floor Plan
West - East Section
Roof Floor Plan
It comes out an organic mechanism. The villas represent a metaphor from local living combination.
1st. Floor Plan
m North Elevation
At the north side, these walls make chilly winds pass easily, and reduce the effection to people acitivities in the other side.
South Elevation
At the south side, people can enjoy the landscape in these semi-outdoor spaces. The chilly winds will be blocked in winter and the comfortable breezes come in summer.
-Greenhouse-Greenhouse Detail-
The ventilation mechanism of the greenhouse helps the temperature be controlled in an energy-saving way. The relative cold air comes into greenhouse from the opposite angle of exhause fan, and the roof will be heated by sunlight raising the temperature inside. The temperature can be adjusted just by the exhause fans and sunlight. Energy and carbon reduction.
Chimney transformed into an observatory.
Using nature element to creat a ramp as linking and buer zone.
Adjust the interior, and leave some trace Remove the original steel structure of original building. and redesign into a greenhouse.
New mining mask guides visitors to the museum.
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The arriving visitors will be shuttled to the reception center of the park. Then, they can enjoy the environment, including the museum. The building can be divided into 3 parts:
Buffer zone
Greenhouse and tropical wetland museum(A) Ecology research station(B) Sub-spaces (C) 1F Kitchen, Discharge area 2F Connecting with greenhouse, part of museum 3.4F Restaurant ,Bistro, Mutipel using space (conference) 5.6F Hostal (Backpackers, researchers) 7F Office
-Epilogueecological resources region is a wrong decision.
local materials. This project brings career ecosystems and habitats, and then local culture project is reaching the balance between ecology, economy, and culture. The vision of the project is the mechanism can be implemented sustainably.
Analysis remanufactured:
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From urban planning to landscape rebuild/new living network
中壢車站高架化 - 外籍勞工衝擊下之都市再造 Academic / 2011 / 4th year studio /individual work Advisor / Yu-Wen Chiu
Location / Zhongli trainstation, Zhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan Programe / Urban Renewal, rail elevated urban complex Area / 25000 m²
Luzhu industrial park
Tauyuan international airport
Dayuan industrial park
Guanyin industrial park
Zhongli is the eighth largest city in Taiwan, and biggest idustrial city of north Taiwan. Zhongli trainstation elevated project will be completed in 2017, accompaning an advanced traffic system. Through this project, I try to find problems of station area, foreign workers, cultural conflict, and spaces using. I use mutipul analyses and geometric form studies, integrating and trying to figure out something possible here, and then solve the problems.
Zhongli industrial park Taoyuan industrial park
The project divided into five part and the fist four part processing in the same time,and then intergrate results: Identity of the area and programm definition Parti: space definition and planning Image analysis: Form. Skin. Structure Network platform Intergrate: intergrate the result of analyses
Zhongli city
Taipei Zhongli
Youth industrial park Taiwan
Pingzhen industrial park
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Identity of the area and programm definition
Introduction of foreign workers Start from 1992, the governmental policy adopted the law of introduction of foriegn workers. Because of the wages of foreign worker are low, industries began to introduct in great amount. The aging population also needs foreign workers for nursing care.
外籍勞工活動範圍及國籍分布緣由
Bus station A
Zhongli trainstation Bus station B
Industrial park
Taoyuan county contains the most amount of industrial park in Taiwan. The demand of worker is considerable.
Bus station C The total amount of foriegn workers in Taiwain is 454171. The 1st is Taoyaun, account for 1/6 of total.
others Kaohsiung Tainan
Zhongli city
Zhongli city is the transportation hub of northwest Taiwan. Accompaning commercial activities and entertainment industry around transportation area. Foriegn workers converge to Zhongli city especially in weekends.
Taichung New Taipei
Filipino activity area
Taipei
Complex activity area Thais activity area Vietnamese activity area
The percentage of foriegn workers in each district in Taiwan
Tauyaun
Analyse of relationship between environment and foriegn workers
Zhongli location factors
Comparing with every city and county in Taiwan, the district which contains the largest urban planning industrial zone is Taoyuan county. It is 15.38% of total amount in Taiwan.
外籍勞工與環境關係
Social development
Change of sex equality in employment;towards an aging society
Difference between education background and wages Foriegn worker(low educated, low wages demand) Local worker(high educated, high wages demand)
Gathering
Religion
Zhongli trainstation Thanks to the traffic location zhongli trainstation area has easy access to various transportation facilities. There are HSIN CHU BUS, TAOYUAN BUS, ZHONGLI BUS, and KING BUS stations in the vicinity.
Part of shopping district removed and became desolate
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Foriegn workers gathering Redundant and neglected spaces increasing
Commercial opportunities
Stores run by Overseas Compatriots
Original shopping district Entertainment(Internet cafe. Hotel.pub)
Stores serving for foriegn workers set up.
original store Main customers Foriegn and local are foriegn workers customers are both existing
Urban negative spaces generated
Language and skin color gap
Different living habits
Misunderstanding and conflict Improve the urban negtive spaces and link with complex spaces and new trainstation
Leisure(pub) Food and drink 3C Daily necessities Currency(black market)
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There are many tall buidings around the staition. After The station area elevated,the new constructs there must be limited with hierachy under 3 floors.It can release the tension of the city and makes the crowed walking area comfortable.
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Driveways Arts and cultural spaces install in old station using building Urban suture zone Pedestrian zone stores stretch into staition area New generated turbulent flow original dwelling environment Transformed spaces New acitivities and possibilities. Elevated trainstation structure activities Foreign worker activities integrate area
A. Used to be a trandition market and is neglected now dark and closed.
Original pedestrian zone Extended pedestrian zone Foreign worker impact zone
B. A series of trainstatin storehouses, used to be a restaurant, neglected. C. Neglected building. D. Roundabout, disorder and dangerous. E. Tall building had a fire. Now, it is a social blind spot. With porn industry and drug addicts. F. Lots of illegal huts. Using as vendors.
Strategy:
Redefining the redundant and neglected spaces, and using urban acupuncture ways to transform the area and suturing the gap between two side of the staition. By parti to figure out different urban textures and integrate the spaces becoming more economical and comfortable.
Parti: space definition and planning
疊圖分析法及空間定義 Wrap and Correspondence:
In the new planning area, the are many interfaces need to respond and follow.
Circuitousness:
Slow down the speed of people when they through this area. The original station shopping district is a crowed and highly dynamic environment.
Core and Cluster:
In urban environment people need the geometric pattern and texture to recognize and interpret the city. Core and core can make cluster and square.
Commercial spaces(stores extending) Train station Arts and cultural spaces Information exchange platform Pedestrian zone Green and Plaza
In this step, I use “parti” as a planning method. I define urban plaza, church space experience, and urban linear extended as three important materials, and overlay these factors together. Then, using three urban opinions as defining mechanism. It comes out a result that can be a new possible of city and racials.
Urban plaza combining with arts and cultural spaces.
Church space experience
Urban texture extending
圖騰分析 : 造型 . 皮層及結構
Image analysis: Form. Skin. Structure
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M.C. Escher
I choose M.C. Escher’s drawing as material of form, skin, and structure. I extract the pattern from it, and transform into three dimension usable spaces.
C. D. E. F. : Adding vertical lines makes plane surface into 3D space. Deform the shape by vertical and horizontal stretching. G. H. : Simulated installation. I. J. K. : Attach with in-scale space.
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Network platform Tranditional aquarium fish purchasing
社會交易形態及網絡平台分析及整合 Others people would like to keep fishes
Sent as a present, Catching at lake or ocean
Get fishes at nigtmarket game
Puchasing from aquarium
Purchase the equipment fishes and other merchandise by ourselves. Prepared aquarium including fishes and equipment
Advantage of tranditional aquarium fish markets: 1.Seeing is believing 2.Avoiding dispute
Extract the characteristics of internet merchandise and exchange. The system could be use into information and experience exchage. I try to integrate Facebook, Google engine, government association, managment institude, and the planning, creating a new synchronized platform.
Internet aquarium fish purchasing platform Take Taiwan guppy forum as template (http://www.guppytaiwan.com.tw/forum.php)
people would like to keep fishes
Advantage of internet aquarium fish markets: Disease 1.Convenient Fish information Competition 2.Avoiding waste Photography 3.Information exchange Album efficiently Diary Blog Message board. Text messaging Friends Appreciate, share and Latest photo in Purchase by text messaging, discuss discussing zone Transaction photos, and films Transaction Highly exposure Studio(sponsors) Own spaces Knowledge, share and discuss Presents platform (Regional) Exchange platform (Regional) Public area
Exchanging or sending equipment, articles for daily use,and fishes by text messaging, photos, and films
Discussions, Quastions Share
People can use this system to report the problems or suggestions to the apartment, and the GPS can hlep to locate the tagged event. People also can find a job or exchange something easily, just by tag an event. These events can be seen by specific organization or people, and it can be linked to the person’s facebook page and the person can be contacted.
Intergrate: intergrate the result of analyses
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spaces. Arrange the dierent type of skins on the space. A. B. C. :Linear connections with urban texture L D. : A node in city. Citizen's Suqare, the released point and a stage of citizens. C. P. : A basic core type of this project. There are six cores consist the cluster. H
E. F. : Break the gap and connecting with original texture. Information station : Provides informations to exchage and job ďŹ nding and agency.
This project plays an important role in the city’s public security and appearance. Provides many corners and fragmentary spaces. Let every racial here have appropiate spaces, just like a big asylum. By urban renewal to reach the purpose of urban acupuncture, and then evolve it to become better.
Historical awakening:
Environmental Design -Turkey Culture Center 可持續性設計 - 伊斯坦堡文化中心
/ individual work
Area / 4590 m²
03 Seraglio Point
Black sea
Europe
Asia Sea of Marmara
Site
Bosphorus
Golden horn
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ern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies in Europe,
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Climate and history -Climate-
環境與歷史
Istanbul is characterized as having a Mediterranean climate. -ClimateOne of the most salient characteristics of the climate in parts of Istanbul is its persistently high humidity, which reaches 80 percent most mornings. Because of these conditions, fog is very common, although more so in northern parts of the city and away from the city center. Notably dense fog events that disrupt transportation in the region, including on the Bosphorus, are perennial occurrences during the autumn and winter months, when the humidity remains high into the afternoon. The humid conditions and the fog tend to dissipate by midday during the summer months, but the lingering humidity still has the effect of exacerbating the moderately high summer temperatures.
-Orient ExpressThe Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train service originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. It ran from 1883 to 2009 and is not to be confused with the Venice-Simplon Orient Express train service, which continues to run. On June 1, 1889, the first non-stop train to Istanbul left Paris (Gare de l'Est). Istanbul remained its easternmost stop until May 19, 1977. The eastern terminus was the Sirkeci Terminal by the Golden Horn.
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-A historical cityAccording to the data.The wind is prevalent in summer. And the wind direction distribution is highly locating in north and north north-east.
Istanbul is the olny city crossing over Europe and Asia, and it’s also the capital in ancient empires. Due to it’s historic characteristic, many kinds of cultures are mixing here, and people always feel the spirit of this place is mysterious. Although now, Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey, it being still the center of finance, culture, and economy. The urban texture and architecture here reflect many cherectristics of ethnic groups and empires which coexisting in the city.
Urban direction
都市感知
Topkapi Palace Sirkeci staition Site
Hagia Sophia
Blue mosque Grand Bazaar Bayezid II Mosque Süleymaniye Mosque
Galata Bridge
Atatürk Bridge The effects of these nodes are not only the buildings themselves. These nodes can help people in the city to discriminate the direction about the spaces near these nodes.
Istanbul has many up-and-down and interweaved streets. In my opinion, the perception of directions by people in urban spaces is important. Especially in Istanbul, a city like a labyrinth. Moreover, due to the geographic position of Istanbul, the sence of time is overlapping here. Especially under the programe of Turkey culture center, I hope the site and the train station can be an important node of the city, and connect other nodes’ perception of directions.
Reflect urban 都市紋理轉化 environment
Algae tech 綠藻發電與建築應用 Biofuel Nowaday, algaetech is developed into a mature step, and utilizing into extensive aspects. The half biofuel production process can be integrated into the architecture. I catch the trandition carpet pattern, and extract the lines into few layers.
combining with architecture
Enhance the environment of the space Talk to the nature and history Approaching Communicate Istanbul likes a maga labyrinth.There are many small-scale streets in Istantal. The scale between people and buildings is crowded, and people will easily lost their way and orientations in the city. Using in-scale frames to express my interpretation about the urban texture and facing between two sides (including sunshine and winds).
Prototype of the composition
From lines into plates
Massing 建築量體策略
Box
The concept model put into the site with scale, representing the responses between two sides. The northward side faces sea;I use 2 layers V type frames expressing the climate and view. Mariners and travelers on the sea can see the building as an lighthouse and symbolize welcome. The southward side face over 100-year old Sirkeci train station; I use ㄇ type frames attracting people and manifest the importance of the historical site.
Raise ground floor Creat basement
Divive the box Add ventilation
I combine the urban perception and environmental response into the building. When people walk inside the building, they can see or precept where they are in the city and know the urban relationship. The thing about reflecting environment : According to climate data, northerly winds are pervailing in Istanbul all year round. I raise the ground floor and let ventilation here can work in appropriate time and seasons.
Add wind tower
通風採光及各層平面
Vertical circulation
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Algae pannel
Algae pannel
Wind tower
Horizontal connection:
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Bridge Design Aethetics Workshop/Shezi pedestrian & bicycle bridge
橋梁美學工作營 - 社子島關渡自行車人行橋設計
Programe / pedestrian & bicycle bridge Area / 2400 m² Award/ Outstanding achievement award (personal) Outstanding teamwork award Organizer/ China Engineering Consultants, Inc. Taiwan (CECI)
Tamsui River
Datun Mountain
Guanyin Mountain
Shezi Island
Guandu Beitou District
Site
Taipei Shezi bridge
Taiwan Keelung River recommends one student to join the workshop. Students are divided in to 9 groups. Evrey group has each
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The competition requires a pedestrian and bicycle using bridge, crossing over Keelung River from Guandu to Shezi. There are an existed bridge 1 kilometer away the site, and it is a car, motorcycle, and pedestrian used bridge. There are two independent bike path isolated by Keelung river. The new bridge will link the two path, and it will play an important role of Shezi development plan. Guandu is a village riched in ecology resources. It contains freshwater wetlands and an estuary reserve.
Site Guandu
Shezi is a delta. Before re-ogranized, Shezi is always ooded by typhoon. Deu to the oods, Shezi became a unmanaged limbo, and lots of illegal factories set up there. Also since unmanagment, Shezi is riching in estuary eco-system.
Keelung River
Tam sui
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Shezi Island
proximity
Guandu Bicycle path Shezi Bicycle path
Wetlands
Mangroves
Bike riding
Waterfowls
Factories
Floods
Shezi bridge
Future of Shezi:
The city government cast a vision of this delta in 2002, and it still progressing. This project seeks to construct a sustainable, friendly, and safe living environment for residents of the island. Covering approximately 240 hectares of land, the development project will address issues including ood prevention, transportation, environmental conservation, leisure life, and rights of community residents. The ďŹ nal goal of Shezi is serving as an ecological foundation of Taipei city.
Amazing skyline of Keelung river and Mout. Guanyin
In my group, I am in charge of concept conceiving, design proposal, and detail design. At first, we got a consensus that the bridge we wanted here must be simple and in harmony with environment.
Considering the geological factors, we take the stayed bridge as our prototype. Moreover, stayed bridge effecting the skyline is least, and it is matching economic considerations.
Simple bridge, Foundtions can be satisfied Cross over High carbon footprint
Human behavior effects
Stucture problem
Eco-migratory behavior
If drawbridge The arch of drawbridge will effect the skyline for people watching from Beitou to Mount.Guanyin. If brick bridge We do not have enough hinterland creating ramps to conquer the gradient. The geology there is improper to construct piers. Arch bridge
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If iron bridge-arch type If we raise the level od bridge. We also do not have enough hinterland creating ramps to conquer the gradient. We can not bury the iron structure into the riverbed. i
If stayed bridge The visual impact of the bridge is limited. It is also simple and elegant. S
There has already a bridge near the site. If we want to construct a new bridge. It must be light and humble in the nature environment.
Natural affinity
We assumed the Shezi bridge as a big Egret. Therefore, we imagined the new bridge will be a smaller egret to respond to the environment.
The opening wing serves as a Viewing platform.
The closing wing serves as a wrapped rest space.
like a egret preparing to soar into sky.
After discussing with experts about the structure, we adjusted the shape of tower. The tower becomes more simple. The body of bridge is just like the body of birds.
Surrounding the tower is a platform which interact with nature. It provides a node for visitors to slow down the speed when they cross over the river.
Metal deck
Drainage
Cable Good weatherability wood
The main structure of bridge body
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Riverbank Bike path
Shezi bridge
Riverbank Bike path
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inCrease 摺紙 . 工藝及參數化設計整合運用
Academic / Team work /Merit project 2014-2015 / March UCL, The Bartlett, GAD Tutors/ Daniel Widrig Stefan Bassing Soomeen Hahm
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Intro. Impacting on all aspects of creative production, digital design and manufacturing tecnologies enable architects and designers to work at a pace and resolution unimaginable just few years ago. Digital systems allow designers to accumulate, structure and utilize massive quantities of information to paramatrically shape products and the built environment. With this context, this project seeks to revaluate the role of craft and hands-on production in the digital design domain. The project is looking into the potential of paper folding in architecture. The aim of this project is through low-tech fabrication method to build or manufacture high-tech computational design. This project went through various kinds of folding methods. In the same time, the material system is also taking an important part of the project. InCrease started from paper folding to investigating paper pulp as a building material. The material system always responds to the design processes and fabrications. The whole project based on component- aggregation design, which creates different hierarchies connections.
Phase one : Folding and casting In the vary beging of the project, we trield several folding and casting posibilities. Folding is a good way of generating surface forms. In the initial research of folding technique, the most interesting thing is the outcome of the folded crease pattern. These pattern either enhance the load bearing ability or make the surface unique and delicate. One of the exercises is to figure out how the crease and form produced by folding could be kept. Some casting tests were done in term 1 and some interesting moments happened in this experiment.
After the first several attempts to fold and to cast, structure and formation failure happened all the way. The failure can be concluded into three points. 1. Folding is a continuous form language, while the folding will not be continuous due to the limitation of the folding material. 2. Folding pattern complex and lack of regularity. This makes the component hard to connect with each other, resulting in the formation always limited in a very small and simple scale. Connection method is important in aggregation. 3. The material was used to cast is not even relavant to the paper itself. Whether it is possible to ‘cast’ the outcome by the paper or some other status of paper came into question.
Phase Two : one pattern many forms This project started with exploring the potential of the relationship of folding and patterns. Paper folding is based on crease patterns, without these creases it cannot called folding. At the begging, the folding shape is a circle. These circles were subdivided to several frequencies. Followed by, one-frequency circle and eightfrequency patterns were utilized to different ways. Due to structural and formational reasons, this project became a component based aggregative design. Material system will be introduced as an indispensable part of the project. The next phase will involve fractal concept in the project. At the end of the part, formation generation will be applied to the design. This project investigated a circle as an initial research of pattern and folding. Followed by the experiment, this project focused on one frequency and eight frequency patterns. The frequencies of the circle mean the different subdividing results. Higher frequency pattern has more potential to fold a delicate formation. Eight frequency patterns were utilized to find a proper form as a prototype. Because of eightfrequency pattern was subdivided to many regular triangles, these objects folded by the patterns have potential to connect or interlock together. There are 85 intersection points in the pattern. It means there has 7140 constrained relationships between these points. With the patterned sheet on hands people could create various spatial movements into a 3 dimension object. folding elements
Process of folding into components
Several connection methods
Digital prototypes
This bench only utilized one size components. Moreover, the cross-connection in this piece was also as the sitting area. To the leg of the bench, it used face to face with rotation connection method. This bench took 19 components to build.
In this chair, the smallest component was fill in the sitting area for comfortable and flat sitting. The middle components were the main structure of the sitting part and connected with the crossconnection. The biggest components connected with face to face with rotation as the leg and backrest. This chair was took 90 components to build.
Digital prototypes
The small components comprised the core of this lattice chair. The medium components connected as a shell of the core. The connection method is point to point. In real world, it is the weakest connection method. This chair took 61 components.
Digital prototype Paper sofa
There are 580 components composed this chair. The hight of sitting area is 42cm, width is 61cm, and depth is 41cm. In this step, we utilized cross-connected method to design our chairs. Due to the cross-connections is the strongest connection method for our project. Moreover, the cross-connections provide flat surfaces for sitting and backrest.
Digital prototype Chair with seed-growth logic
Pavilion design
According to previous research, we figured out a logical design process. The first step is to arrange the area that needs to aggregate. Then set up the tendency that base on the information we got from the site. The information could be cultural, urban, environmental, and structural contexts. Responding to Eisenman's design logic, the information could be a basis of morphogenesis. This project followed the logic to generate the first hierarchy components as a structural part, and then to generate the second and third hierarchy based on structural and lighting requirements.
Pysical prototype
Chair A
Pysical prototype Paper sofa
Pysical prototype
1:1 Paper sofa
Paper sofa
Material test
In the material tests, we utilized other materials to reinforce paper. These materials include polyurethane casting resin, microcrystalline wax, paraffin wax, varnish oil and paper pulp. In the same time, different types and thickness paper was tested These materials are 170gam cartridge paper, 300gam paper sheet, 540mic cardboard, Kraft paper, 35mic pp plastic paper, and pulp mixture. After compression test, the result showed six reinforced components could be used in different bearing part of a structure.Especially, paper pulp, as a raw material of paper, has the best strength in all reinforced components. Moreover, paper pulp as a recycled material, the potential in architecture is profound.
pulp brick
steel wire
CNC mold
casting process
Precisely Modeling
For this step we use CNC to make a precise mold. Which helps us to fabricate components efficiently. casting piece
Pulp brick prototype: We tried to apply our design to real scale structure. The pulp bricks were connected togather face to face and line by line.
GROWTH DEVELOPMENT 1:1:3 gyroid vector field (aggregationg type I: fill in surface space) In this design, Gyroid pattern is compressed in Z direction. As a result, the vector field is also compressed in Z direction. Since the components aggregate along the direction o f t h e ve c t o r, t h e y wo u l d create more layers than in the vector field of standard Gyroid surface. As the final render shows, the components create a platform above the ground. The radial shape doesn’t look so obvious than in the standard Gyroid vector field, because the space is too narrow to let the components spread out to every direction.
z direction compression first hierarchy growth
first hierarchy components
gyroid vector acquire scale x=3 y=3 z=9
1:1:3 gyroid vector field
z direction compression second hierarchy growth
z direction compression third hierarchy growth
second hierarchy components
1:1:3 gyroid field potential space render
second hierarchy components
GROWTH DEVELOPMENT standard gyroid vector field (aggregationg type II: outline surface structure) W i t h i n t h e s a m e s t a n d a rd Gyroid pattern, in this design, the method of letting components aggregate along the surface is used. Since Gyroid surface is an arc-like shape structure, the components would form arch space in this situation. As the final render shows, the c o m p o n e n t s fo r m s eve r a l a rc h e s s i n c e t h e y o u t l i n e the standard Gyroid surface structure in the standard vector field. This situation is very fit to create arches.
standard gyroid pattern first hierarchy growth
first hierarchy components
gyroid vector acquire scale x=3 y=3 z=3
1:1:1 standard gyroid vector field
standard gyroid pattern second hierarchy growth
standard gyroid pattern third hierarchy growth
second hierarchy components
standard gyroid field potential space render
third hierarchy components
GROWTH DEVELOPMENT 1:2:1 gyroid vector field (aggregationg type II: outline surface structure) In Y direction compressed Gyroid vector field, the potential arch space is also compressed. S o t h e s p a n of t h e a rc h e s would be shorter than those produced in standard Gyroid vector field. In this situation, the components create shelterlike space, as the final render shows. The Gyroid pattern in this situation is denser in Y direction, so the components create narrow arch space since t h e y a g g re g a t e a l o n g t h e surface.
y direction compression first hierarchy growth
first hierarchy components
gyroid vector acquire scale x=3 y=6 z=3
1:2:1 gyroid vector field
y direction compression second hierarchy growth
y direction compression third hierarchy growth
second hierarchy components
1:2:1 gyroid field potential space render
third hierarchy components
FURTHER PROPOSAL
South Bank The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district of Central London, England, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster. It forms a narrow, unequal strip of riverside land within the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark where it joins Bankside. As with most central London districts its edges evolve and are informally defined however its central area is bounded by Westminster Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district. The Southbank Centre comprises the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Hayward Gallery. The Royal National Theatre, the Imax super cinema and BFI Southbank adjoin to the east. Paper Waste In today’s electronic age, people are starting to consider going paperless. But there’s still a long way to go before we lose our dependence on this very important human product. From our newspapers to our paper wrappings, paper is still everywhere and most of them are ending up in our landfills creating a staggering amount of paper waste. There was a time when paper was a rare and precious commodity. Now it fills our planet. It was initially invented as a tool for communication, but today, paper is used more for packaging. To produce paper takes twice the energy used to produce a plastic bag. Everything takes energy to produce. In the case of paper, it also involves cutting down trees. Deforestation is one of the main environmental problems we’re facing in these times. 42% of all global wood harvest is used to make paper.
FURTHER PROPOSAL
One of the chosen sites was located along the thames river, in the front of the area of south bank district. The site was surrounded by various transportation ways, like tubes, trains, yarchts, cars, and bikes . The southbank area plays a node role in London city. The southbank is a new art district, due to new constructions and planning. Artists from all over the world will come to London festival eve r y ye a r. Mo re ove r, t h e national theatre hold hundreds p e r fo r m a n c e s eve r y ye a r. Owing to these factors, this r i b b o n a re a s h ow n i n t h e diagram needs some rapid built and innovative meeting points and some spaces which can hold opening events for performances and exhibitions. One of the site was chosen to be a plaza located in front of the national gallery. The people flow from the opposite bank side and from the main roads are intersecting here. T h i s s u g g e s t s a p o te n t i a l space which should meet the need of meeting point and various outdoor activities.
The functional area division An open space whithin the boundary of chosen side, which was roughly regarded as a sq uare, was the constraint of the form generation process. The available space was shown in (a) due to the urban context. Circulation path was expected to be the the curves shown in (b). This was meant to create a small outdoor theatre and a semi-public meeting point as well. The path is expected to create a continous circulation expierence between the two small functional space and create different space quality due to the difference of the activities. The circulation path influence the generation of the landscape area of this project. The diagram(c) indicates a potential transition method between each functional area. The sitting and relaxing parts are closely sitted near the curves and the structural area are defined by the area with larger grids.
FURTHER PROPOSAL Outdoor Theatre & Meeting Point Design
FURTHER PROPOSAL Outdoor Theatre & Meeting Point Design
outdoor theatre & meeting point bottom up view
elevation left
Outdoor Theatre & Meeting Point Design Elevation
Outdoor Theatre & Meeting Point Design Perspective
Outdoor Theatre & Meeting Point Design
Part of meeting point design 3D printed model
Outdoor Theatre & Meeting Point Design
Part of meeting point design 1:1 Paper modele
Part of meeting point design 1:1 Paper model
Curriculum vitae Name email Date of Birth Citizenship Tel. Adress URL Visa status
Chao-Fu Yeh mcjoseph90077@gmail.com 16/Aug./1988 Taiwan +44-7763267599 No.28, Ln. 230, Chongxue Rd., East Dist., Tainan City 701, Taiwan UK tier2 to Jan. 2016
Education March Graduate Architectural Design 5 Year Bachelor of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Work Experience Key stone architects, Tainan, Taiwan Yuan Ken Architects, Tainan, Taiwan Modeling
Artru Interior Design, Tainan, Taiwan
Sep.2014-Sep.2015
University
Jun. 2012
Sep.2007-Jun.2012 Page271-276
Jun.-Sep. 2008 Feb.-Mar. 2009 Feb.-Mar. 2010
Jun. 2012
Skills AutoCad 2D,3D ,Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Makerbot, Rhinoceros,3Dmax ,Corel draw, Origamizer
Jun.-Sep. 2010 May.-Aug. 2013 Extracurricular Activities
Language Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, English (IELTS6.5)
Rain Controll Workshop Led by Akiyoshi Okamura
Awards Outstanding Achievement Award Outstanding Teamwork Award Outstanding DesignAward of CYAR 48th
Publications & Exhibition City and the Superpowers, Fundamental Architecture course Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
Aug. 2011
China Engineering Consultants, Inc. Taiwan
Jun. 2012
AA School of Architecture, Edinburg World Heritage Site, Iron Bridge world heritage site, Cornwall world heritage site
Materials
Jun. 2008 Oct. 2011
Held “School of Design workshop” Held ”1th Architecture workshop” Held “Welcome camp”
Summer Workshops at Domaine de Boisbuchet”for “Nature room” led by Sou Fujimoto Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France
Nov. 2010 Jun. 2012 Jun.-Aug. 2011
Jun.2010Sep.2011
Sep. 2012