Taoyuan, Taiwan
鍾博宇
application for MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (Projective Cities)
PO YU CHUNG ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO selected works 2013-2019
AN ESSAY AS INTRODUCTION This short essay is the conclusion of my portfolio. I will explain how these four projects have influenced my design thinking and the way they were affected by other fields of knowledge. I hope this essay can provide a reference to help you to better understand my perspective toward architecture design.
Backgrounds
My four projects presented in this portfolio are located in three different countries, Taiwan, Czech Republic, and Latvia. Each of them provides me with a unique scope to see this world. Different cultures, people, books, and even political events are involved in my decision making of ideology in my projects. Thus, architecture becomes a base for me to engage with other professions and people. This portfolio not only shows my design ability but also my consistency to chase an answer which is ambiguous at first and circumspection to question myself again and again in the process of research.
Architecture of Infrastructure / The Weightiness of Architecture In my thesis design, I focused on Kaoshung Harbor and its surroundings, the biggest harbor in Taiwan. In an industrial city next to the sea, it is curial to notice the relationship between man-made landscape and rural landscape. Domestication of nature became the issue that I wanted to target, and the only way that human applies to nature to transform nature into an applicable resource is through infrastructure. There is no doubt that modern cities are equipped with various kinds of infrastructures, but the amount and the purpose of them are doubtful from the contemporary perspective. It is especially true when a city is transforming from an industrial city to a post-industrial city, and the abandoned or covered infrastructure now is potential to be an interface between city life and rural landscape as public space. The idea is that if we redefine the boundary and function of
infrastructure, making it a part of city life and the space in existing infrastructure could be experienced, then it will be a possibility for an industrial city like Kaosiang to extend their public space, flipping their image of unsustainable and unfriendly for living.
Architecture or Philosophy / Pavilosta Poet Hut
In this competition, a pure site with a pure plain gave me a chance to rethink about 'dwelling' and what role does architecture play in the existence of humanity? Before the design development, I took an online class called 'The Architectural Imagination' by Harvard GSD. I learned the history of philosophy in architecture, and how architecture became a kind of knowledge. Since then, I take typology and history more seriously and found joy in reading architecture theory. I can describe this project as an outcome of that class. The ability of thinking, imaging, and memorizing are pristine in humans, and these are the factors that we can say architecture is a form of philosophy. Therefore, my goal in this project is to examine the theory by challenging the typology and create a new form of architectonic to extend the typology.
Architecture with Ecology / Jihlava Pedestiran Bridge 'Ecology' has two aspects in the project, one is biology, and the other in sociology. It is the first time that I work with a local government, communicating with local people to do research and analysis. In that period of time, I was eager to find a precise method to do site analysis as evidence to accomplish "significant" architecture design. However, after talking to residents and staying in the town for over two weeks, I had a deeper connection to the town instead of hiding in the studio and imagining through google map as I did before. The huge amount of time that I spend on the on-site research made me think about the methods that really connect people and environment. This project reminds me of the vibe of people and place, and it encourages me to embrace the possibility and the potential of an
architecture project without buildings. In other words, a precise and soft touch can be powerful and hardcore.
Architecture, Living, and Economy /
a collective housing in Tainan
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I fall in love with collective housing because of this
project and the book, 10 stories of collective housing by a+t research group. This was a project located in Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan. Tainan is full of culture and historical architecture, and it is the place that shapes my perspective towards urban planning. The main task was how a group of architecture stands in a complicated urban context and how can architecture provide a new lifestyle which can reshape the preception from the public of collective housing. I believe that my teammate and I create a great housing project by taking care of almost every aspects that we might face in an academic environment. However, I found the paradox of the proposal of housing from architects in Taiwan and the reality and it made me uncomfortable. The reality is that high-quality housing is either extremely expensive or impossible to build because of the land price. I certainly understand that through several internships, I see how architects struggle to balance their income and social responsibility. Unfortunately, I have to admit that reality may not be as beautiful as architects' imagination in Taiwan.
Questions to architecture itself
After finishing the collective housing project , I have continuously focused on the development of the real estate industry in Taiwan and compared our condition to other countries. Recently, a series of debates on housing justice aroused in my society, but after several years of reform of housing policy, there seems no significant improvement in our living conditions. Taiwan still has one of the highest housing price in the world and most of our people still live in debt which constrains their living srandard and future. I believe that was the beginning of my persuing of a graduate degree. At any time of human history, architects should be the one who is always optimistic and critical. Our main task of this generation is definitely the housing crisis around the world and sometimes it is not a problem of architecture, it relates to other disciplines and our fundamental ideology of living.
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002 The Project of Poetic
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003 Jihlava Pedestrian Bridge
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004 I see 'it' out of the corner of my eye
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reuse the burried, coastal infrastructure as a public park Thesis design studio, 2018
Pavilosta Poet Hut competition, 2019
Reconnecting local communities through culture facilities 4th year design studio, 2017
Exploring the low-cost collective housing 3rd year design studio, 2016
Appendix
2019 workshop / Increasing resolution 2018 Capentory project / A Box and a Chair 2017 research project / A route in Prague
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YEAR 05, THESIS DESIGN PROJECT, KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN
Program
Project 001 /
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The weightiness of architecture
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reuse the burried, coastal infrastructure as public, recreational park
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Instructor _ WEI-TSENG / wei_tseng@hotmail.com Site _ Kaohsiung Sizihwan Bay, Taiwan Project Type _ academic / individual
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GOAL _ The thesis is discussing how human has domesticated natural landscape through infrastructure and how we can reinterpret the massive scale infrastructure through space and activities, making it a part of our daily life.
scape have disappeared and our understanding of coastline was limited by the platform which p rov i d e s u s w i t h o n l y f l at te n experience, denying all the other possibilities for the human to engage with nature.
Searching for the site was also a part of our design. After analyzing the history and finishing onsite workshops, I found it ver y interesting that after several times of land reclamation and extension of infrastructure, the connection of human and sea have changed. Our ability to conceive the depth of land-
My final solution is rethinking the area as an archeological site where people can approach to the infrastructure and identify them in a historical view. There are also some programs that are placed in the infrastructure, reinterpreting it through space.
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YEAR 05, THESIS DESIGN PROJECT, KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN
site research & thesis finding *Enclosed capmus
Map of senses and experience
the map at right is a representation of the process of site research and thesis searching. It shows the different urban-scale topics which is possible for a thesis.
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The drawing above is a imagination of a tour from city to sea, it created a base to think before visiting the site.
* Harbor/ Edge / Tourism *Tourism / Factory
The red lines in the drawing above are the routes that I visit at the onsite workshop and the real experience helped me to decide the direction of my thesis.
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After a few on-site workshops, I targeted my thesis on the coastline and infrastructure. My final decision was a scenic overlook inside of Kaohsiung Harbor because of its potential of publicity and the interesting landfill history which will be present on the next page.
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site analysis and landfill history 1890
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The oldest map of the area.
After the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Taiwan was controlled by Japanese.
Af ter Japanese government t r a n s f e r Ta i w a n t o K M T government, a new university was created at the nor th of the site, therefore, the new expansion was expected to allow the construction of the entry and to meet the parking demand.
The current change of the area was totally for tourism.
We can see that the big rock was illustrated in the drawing, however, some par t of the shore was started to be trimed and used as modern port.
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As the biggest port in the southern Taiwan, land reclamation was necessary while constructing a modern harbor.
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The city government built a bigger platform for visitors to see the sunset which made the place become one of the most popular tourist site.
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YEAR 05, THESIS DESIGN PROJECT, KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN
Design development First impression Af ter visiting the site and the surrounding area, I star ted to represent the feeling and images that I received from the site. Besides, I also tried to sketch some direct solutions to the landscape, trying to place some space for humans to interact with nature.
Plan sketches I draw these sketches through intuition in every stage of the design process, some of them were drawn before the complete investigation and analysis of the site. Therefore, it is easy to see what happens after the full analysis, and how does it affect the design strategy.
Concept models In this stage, I tried to use physical models to looking for a way to engage with the existing site. With different materials, I can then imagine different approaches and atmosphere of the overall project.
Space imagination This method is very impor tant for me, sometimes I tried not to be so analytical when I tried to produce space, but with the precondition which I know the overall atmosphere and history of the site.
Exploring another way The four approaches to form space happened simultaneously. In this process, I tried to put myself into a non-analytical environment right after the site analysis was done since at that time I could not shape the space solely through the analytical information.
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Sections
9 Sections The section is the main tool to develop different relationships between human and infrastructure. Every section demonstrates a specific condition that was tested in the previous study. At section AA, for example, a platform is designed to connect to the land, but separated from the outer panel. In section CC to FF, we can see a swimming pool appear at each of them, but the relation of the pool and interior space varies. People can reach the outer area next to the sea through different kinds of space.
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The aim is to challenge the usual way that the Taiwanese government treats our coastline. Us u a l l y, t h e y j u s t reclaim land from the sea, and it is an endless expansion which constrains people to interact with the sea.
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Sections - The Weightness of Layers Layering - From Public to Private Infrastructure could be seen as the biggest layer that humans can cover on the landscape. The weight of layers could define different relationships between humans and the rural landscape, and it could be defined by activities, architectonic, or how much people can touch the sea. In the first section, the only thing that I apply to the existing infrastructure is a slope, leading people from road to the site. People can feel the dramatic depth between existing infrastructure as the first impression. In the second section, there are more activities are designed, and the landscape was carved to the shape that fits human scale, from an enclosed space like changing room to an open facility as swimming, I want to experiment with different scales of space and the activity inside them.
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Perspectives Space between infrastructure and landscape The perspectives show the body experience when people enter the space which was used to be landfills. In this space, various recreational activities could happen and it also presents a new relationship for the city and the sea. There are two major goals of this design, making people feeling the depth between landscape and infrastructure, and bringing the publicity back to space.
YEAR 06, PAVILOSTA POET HUT COMPETITION PROJECT, PAVILOSTA, LATVIA
Project 002 / 2019
Pavilosta Poet Hut The project of poetic
Site _ Pavilosta, Latvia Type _ competition / individual Description : Being a poet is a privilege of our kind since only human have the ability to imagine, which is the necessity of both reading a poem and creating a poem. Through imagination, words can arouse memory that we do not really have, connect our mind to something that has not happened, and therefore create unexpec ted emotion in a special way. This poetic issue reminds me of a hypothetical event mentioned by Adolf Loos : " If we find in the forest a mound, six feet long and three feet wide, raised by a shovel to form a pyramid, we turn serious and something in us says: here somebody lies buried . That is architecture."
In order to figure it out, I tried to unpack this story and I found three crucial elements and extend the meaning to develop this project.
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There must be a traditional relationship of the building and environment that could be found in the region, which means a specific scenario that inherited in people's' consciousness. It could also be seen as an ancient object
rooted in the collective memory of human, so the encounter is already in their minds before and after the visit.
gion. Based on the typology that I discovered, I started a series of drawing which is placed in later pages.
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Appearance of a building has two sides, exterior, and interior, and it is typology that can transform the image of a house to architectural drawing. Through the typology of the house of Courtland, I can define a more specific definition of local house type in the re-
Af ter experiencing, architec ture should also be able to transform itself, jumping out of the existing idiom. The aims of this project now appear: engaging with the typology, challenging it, and extending it at the same time.
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Traditionally the roof took an outstanding place in building construction and about two-thirds of the total building height was allocated to its construction.
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The smokestack in the center of a traditional residential house in Courtland is probably the most public space in the house and usually regarded as the major local peculiarity.
In order to create a different experience to a flat plain, a part of the landscape is sunken, changing traditional relationships between people and the ground floor line of the local residential building.
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Autonomy is the issue that people can not ignore if they want to discuss poetic in architecture. In a regular school project, students have asked for response to urban context constantly. However, this site is located in an endless, completely rural plain which provides a chance to think about the subject itself. The site is not adjacent to any building, remaining isolated from the town.
The smokestack and the proportion of the roof are two significant characters of local houses in Courtland (the old name of the region), showed at the lefthand side. To respond this tradition type, I sta r te d w i t h s i m i l a r s pa ce in section, but with different program, activity, and structure.
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To create new space experience, the traditional relation of center-outer and publicprivate is reversed, and poets now use the central part as the living unit, experiencing the space used to be a smokestack.
A Closer Place to Autonomy
The visual connection is out of use here, people can only imagine and smell the sea and touch the soil. Thus, after the understanding, I decided this project should be extremely inward and intimate, responding to the local tradition at the same time.
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Before starting the design, I found an article to study the tradition of the local house, which is "Scale and relations of Spatial forms i n M o d e r n L at v i a n R e g i o n a l architecture" by Ozola Silvija at Riga Technical University.
Enlarged roof and different relation with the ground could allow more fluidity and flexibility. Meanwhile, the silhouette of a traditional residential building remains the same.
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Finally, although the shape is changed inside, the proportion seen from outside remains the same. People now might have an unexpected experience and the nostalgic feeling at the same time.
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The concept of the unit is trying to interact with the plain, creating an inner landscape in the shape of a loop, and mixing different functions.
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The living area of the host is isolated from the commom area, but linked to the shared kitchen. There is also two isolated entries that ensure the privacy of the hosts.
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poets who are invited to have a long stay here should not just stay in their unit, thinking about their poem like a usual poet hut, instead, this complex should allow interaction between public and poets or even invite other forms of art to communicate with poetry. Therefore, the poet's units and public facilities like poetry sharing room and exhibition space are juxtaposed. The concept of the units is trying to interact with the plain, creating an inner landscape in the shape of a loop, and isolating each function.
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01 - 03 Since the best time for a long stay in summer, the semi-outdoor space connects the people who come to visit the exhibition and the wildness. By arranging the space shown below, nature can seep into the interior. 04 - 07 living unit Inside of the units, there are only two openings, one is for the skylight and the other is for the view of pure nature.
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YEAR 06, PAVILOSTA POET HUT COMPETITION PROJECT, PAVILOSTA, LATVIA
During the process of sketches at different moments of my design development, I tried to identify a solid way to engage with the ground, digging a hole, like ruins. This project will be finished when the building collapse and one wanderer experiences the carving on the site.
Main Floor Plan Interior Landscape The interior is organized to be intensive and close to each other encouraging people to encounter. It is clear that all faces of the building can reach the plain without obstacles, and this arrangement allows people to freely enter and exit the building.
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'This project will be beautifully finished when the building collapse and one wanderer experiences the carving on the site, imagining...'
Perspectives Ground / Body / Habitation From the very beginning of my thinking of perspective, it seems that I have focused on the relationship between the human eye view and the horizontal line of the ground. The building is sunken into the ground by 1.8 meters, and the variations of floors hight allow the visitor to experience ground in unexpected ways.
Sketches During the process of sketches at different moments of my design development, I tried to identify a solid way to engage with the ground, digging a hole, like ruins. This project will be finished when the building collapse and one wanderer experiences the carving on the site.
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YEAR 04 , OPTION STUDIO DESIGN PROJECT, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
A-B Jihlava Valley Analysis
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Jihlava Pedestrian Bridge
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reconnecting local communities through culture facilities Supervisor _ Henry Hanson / hhanson@hdg-ltd.com Site Location _ Jihlava, Czech Republic Type _ academic / individual
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Description : This semester, we worked with the local government of Jihlava, mainly discuss with Kafkovรก Tereza from City Planning Department. Because of the setting, we had the chance to collect advice and information from those who really live there and truly care about the future of their city. The city government plans to renovate an old factory and turn it into a cultural center in Jihlava valley, and they need suggestions from a professional point of view to help them to set value and criteria in the coming competition, aggregating consensus from residents.
We all believe that architecture is a way to promote social progress by directly talking to local residents with architectural drawings, diagrams, and models. It's not a one-way process. It's an interactive dialogue. Therefore, the process of communication is critical to this project.
This part of valle y contains the boundray of park and the zoo. Besides, the direction of stream changes here.
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The site and programs are open to students to decide. My final goal is connecting the city center and the east side of the city by a pedestrian bridge with various cultural programs on it, trying to connect two sides of the valley.
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The valley is a void where activities happend. My aim is finding the ne w programs and possibilities with the cultural hub.
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Following the path of the valley and the river, I found different types of landscape and ways that people engage with the environment.
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Genealogy Diagram Since we have the opportunity to meet and present to the local residents at the second workshop, I desided to ask them to help me finish this research manually. Thus, I can have information directly from those who are living there, which may help me to explore the opportunity of programming.
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Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava river (German Igel) on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Among the principal buildings are the early Gothic churches of St. Jacob, Friars Minor Church of Our Lady and the Dominican church of Holy Cross, the Baroque church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Municipal Hall and a number of municipal houses containing Gothic and Renaissance details. There is also a Jewish cemetery, containing some remarkable monuments including the tombstone of the parents of Gustav Mahler.
The drawing at the left is my imagination of the future Jihalava. It's a city for childern, for parenting, for people to interact with nature in different levels.
Tourism There are increasing amont of poeple decided to move to big cities like Prague and Brno. Thus,the government of Jihlava tried to make the town as the cultural hub of the central Czech Republic by renovating abandoned factories as cultural facilities to attract more people to live and visit the town.
All of the idea came from my first drawing of being among trees and the experience of being on the site for several
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This is the view that I always remember from the top of the hiil, seeing through the tree to the valley. This type of forest makes me feeled safe and relax. The feeling of being in a forest is a n important clue for me to continue my project.
Step 01 Documentation These are simplified views of the existing entries of the valley.
It is really important to connect the community at the east, the new cultural center in the middle of the valley, and the town square in the city center. Appeareantly there are also needs to have more activities and facilities inside the valley.
Factors in diagram 1.Age of subjects, inculding family member. 2.Where to go on weekends? 3.Transportation method. 4.Where do you live? (zoning according to the colored map.) 5.What kind of activity do you expect to do in the valley? 6.How many years have you lived in Jihlava?
Accessibility Analysis The diagram shows how far can people reach on foot from city center in 15 minutes, and it's claerly hard for the residents at the east of the town to go to city center where the shops are located.
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Plan & Axonometric Drawing Programmed Bridge What can people see while walking on the bridge? Apart from the fantastic view of the valley, there are several cultural
facilities are placed along the bridge. A cafe, a theatre, and a library are open for the public to make the experience on it more interesting.
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The diagram shows how far can people reach on foot from city center in 15 minutes, and it's claerly hard for the residents at the east of the town to go to city center where the shops are located.
The library is originally from my first concept drawing, imaginary Jihlava. In that drawing, there are some bookshelves in the valley among trees. Thus, the idea here is placing two glass boxes for preserve books, and the big steps give people a space to sit and read with treetop in front of them.
Cafe' & Bar
In the middle of the library and playground, there are a cafe' and a bar. The long table for a bar is set like a public living room. Anyone can join the long table by having a beer, according to the Czech culture.
Semi-Outdoor Theater
Considering the culture center next to the site, there must be a place to gather, make a speech or a lecture. When there is a big event, this space could be used as a lecture hall or conference hall. If there's not, It could be a simple semi-outdoor theater for the public at nights.
Slope / Slide
There are big steps toward the water, and a huge slide for anyone. After the slide, people will reach the Jihlava stream, playing in the little stream or just walk along with it since it was hard to get close to water.
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Proposal - sections & perspectives
Goal / Achievement
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This is the first time that I spent so much time on researach process, directly talking to local residents and city government. It helps me to understand there is always a gap between designer and user, and what can we do is listening to their opinion.
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Therefore, the achievements of this project are creating a series of platform which encourage various activities to happen, at the same time, However, as a architect, the helping the elderly to cross the mission for us is definetly not valley to the town center.
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New experience
This pedestrian bridge which connects the city center and the valley, extending the urban experience to the cultural hub in the valley. Through the transparency of the dense but light structure, the architecture allows us to have a new experience with nature and different cultural activities.
Drawing 01 illustrates the public semi-outdoor theater. The theater can be also used as a multi-function hall for different activities. Drawing 02 illustrates a different way that people can get closer to trees. People can sit on the stairs on the top of trees to rest, read, or start a conversation.
Drawing 03 There are some holes on the floor, and around the holes, there is a cafe' with tables and sofa for people to take a rest. Drawing 04 There is a big slope to attract people to walk towards the river. It's an open space that allows people really touch the water.
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YEAR 03, CORE STUDIO DESIGN PROJECT, TAINAN, TAIWAN
The critical moment
Project 004 / 2016
I see "it" out of the corner of my eye Exploring the ambiguity in
_ Intro of Moden Urban planning During the colonization of the Japanese, they started a plan to bring modern life to Taiwan, including city planning. The continuous pattern was cut by enlarged roads to form square blocks that are close to the pattern today.
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Instructor _ LE-JING JIANG architect / leching@ms3.hinet.net Type: academic / group, with SUEN-DE WONG Participation : drawing, modeling, presenting Description : In this project, our goal is creating a couraging more communication. collective housing complex, giving a new expression to the old block In the shophouse in Tainan, the living room might be the showroom system. or fac tor y in which ever yone is At t h e s a m e t i m e, we w a n t t o welcome to be inside. Although the experiment with a new living culture shophouse type is no longer popular, in Tainan, making a new example the flexibility of being in the middle of for contemporary social life through publicity and privacy remains in our redistribution of traditional housing consciousness while constructing. function. Therefore we are looking for Thus, we started with units, trying neither transparency nor solidity to identify the old 'in-between' of the interior. Instead, the project relationship hidden inside the emphasizes the fluidity of domestic existing urban context, which make experience and continuity of context people live with a limited privacy, en- in the city center.
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Block type study / Route
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Characteristic of blocks
Th i s d i a gra m s h ows t h e p u b l i c i t y a n d accessibility of blocks around the site. It is clear that whether a block is used for public or private functions, people can always find reasons to go through them like a temple, cafe, and restaurant. Or just pass through.
shop education market religen facility cultural facility The relation of main public space(s) and peripheral functions
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YEAR 03, CORE STUDIO DESIGN PROJECT, TAINAN, TAIWAN
A _ small unit
Unit & Domestic Life This drawing indicates the close relation between familly members and the space.
Area : 51m2 The unit was designed for a couple to rent. Although the area is not big, the flexible space in the center can adapt to different functions.
B _ large family unit Area : 102 m2 The flexibility of the unit can fit the demand of the threegeneration family, making it easy to have an extra room.
credit to SUEN-DE WONG
C _ medium unit Area : 102 m2 The two-floor unit was designed for a four-member family, and because of the stair, there will be a vertical space for more ventilation and a better view.
Structure System / Units The design of the structure responds to the design of the plan, which tries to reduce the character of the traditional function of an apartment building, minimalizing rooms and use them as structural cores. Outside of the cores, the space allows different activities to happen. We think this organization can free the residents f ro m f i xe d - f u n c t i o n s p a c e a n d provide an opportunity for people to imagine the lifestyle of themselves.
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Perspectives From Unit to City The level of transparency is the key to my design. On the ground level, I want to give the city a more transparent impression, which allows the public to enter the block in some areas reaching to shops, cafes, and restaurants. The more experimental part is the relationship between units. I tried to create a semi-public depth where winds, sun, and activities can go in. Since the traditional type of apartment in the area normally has a narrow and enclosed corridor between units so it is important to flip this feeling.
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YEAR 03, CORE STUDIO DESIGN PROJECT, TAINAN, TAIWAN
S, SECTION, and PHOTOS
Planning A new urban experience in Tainan The main goal of the planning is creating an open context which is contrary to other blocks nearby. It can also be regarded as an urban interface to connect the blocks around it, creating a surprise in the pedestrian route. How to somehow break the old block context, creating a more public urban life is the issue that I want to address here.
2F Plan
S, SECTION, and PHOTOS
左上圖：二樓平面層，利用環形步道串聯主要商店， 形成一樓主要商店的延伸，配合旅館及工作室等較靜 態的機能。
01 volumn hight
/adjustment /suroundings
02 plaza
上圖：三層平面圖，利用環形步道串聯幾個主要的住 宅單元，成為社區空間，並形成住與商的過度帶，也 是居民運動交流的場所。 1F Plan
2F Plan
/commertial /urban /2nd floor
左上圖：二樓平面層，利用環形步道串聯主要商店， 形成一樓主要商店的延伸，配合旅館及工作室等較靜 態的機能。 上圖：三層平面圖，利用環形步道串聯幾個主要的住 宅單元，成為社區空間，並形成住與商的過度帶，也 是居民運動交流的場所。 1F Plan
4F Plan
平面圖：1/1200 剖面圖：1/600
3F Plan 2F Plan
左左圖：一樓平面層，利用曲線的鋪面企圖增加基地 內外的連結，尤其在於行人的步行經驗。另外利用植 栽與高低差形塑社區開放空間的隱私。
03 public route 1F Plan
左圖：四層平面圖，在整個計畫案中，為了因應不同 的族群混和，因此在四、五、九樓配置了學生族群和 年長者的宿舍。
4F Plan
/rotation /irragular 正模(中庭) /open space
基地模
3F Plan
左左圖：一樓平面層，利用曲線的鋪面企圖增加基地 內外的連結，尤其在於行人的步行經驗。另外利用植 栽與高低差形塑社區開放空間的隱私。
左圖：四層平面圖，在整個計畫案中，為了因應不同 的族群混和，因此在四、五、九樓配置了學生族群和 年長者的宿舍。
平面圖：1/1200 剖面圖：1/600 4F Plan
3F Plan
左左圖：一樓平面層，利用曲線的鋪面企圖增加基地 內外的連結，尤其在於行人的步行經驗。另外利用植 栽與高低差形塑社區開放空間的隱私。 左上圖：二樓平面層，利用環形步道串聯主要商店， 形成一樓主要商店的延伸，配合旅館及工作室等較靜 態的機能。 上圖：三層平面圖，利用環形步道串聯幾個主要的住 宅單元，成為社區空間，並形成住與商的過度帶，也 是居民運動交流的場所。 左圖：四層平面圖，在整個計畫案中，為了因應不同 的族群混和，因此在四、五、九樓配置了學生族群和 年長者的宿舍。
平面圖：1/1200 剖面圖：1/600
04 community route /private
正模(中庭)
基地模
/5th floor 正模(中庭)
/open space
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Section How a collective housing complex can benefit the city? The section shows how the public level engages with private units. The public slope will continue to the 4th floor where the shops were located. The 5th floor is where the staircase is rotated to the other side of the building, and this strategy can create a more dynamic elevation as well as voids at different sides. At the ground level, the relation to the city is quite open, people can easily pass through the garden, and the coffee shops and restaurant can significantly make the block more enegetic.
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10 DAYS-WORKSHOP, YILAN, TAIWAN, 2019
APPENDIX
Chung Hsing Paper Factory International Workshop and Exhibition Increasing The Resolution
This workshop experience is extremely important for me to understand the basic method of design architecture. 1/50 scale model is the major tool to complete this workshop and exhibition. With the material we picked up at the site, we tried to make the model as real as possible. Through the model, we can scale up and increase the resolution of our site which is an abandoned factory, and design activities inside of the existing structure.
Totur : Erika Nakagawa, Japan Number of the team : 10 people Participation : modeling making, field sketching, presentating, drawings.
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BASIC CAPENTORY TRAINING, TAINAN, TAIWAN, 2017
APPENDIX
Capentory training
Tough The Material and The Tradition
I took the class in Yung Shing Furniture Carpentry school which opens part-time carpentry class for the public. In the class, I first touch the machine and work in the factory, and I also learned to use the Chinese traditional tool to make traditional dovetail joints. This experience inspires me to study details of furniture and learning how detail can affect the whole furniture even the building. Most importantly, I love the feeling of 'flow' while making a piece of furniture or simply sharpening my chisel. The deep connection to things itself will be an important part of my future career.
Chisel box make by Taiwan Zelkova and cherrywood.
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RESEARCH PROJECT, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2016
APPENDIX
Urban Research & Exploration of Prague Sense the City by Sences
My first task in Prague is exploring this city base on body experience, trying to document the public space through my sences. This experience is ver y important for my understanding of a city, because before this project, I used to start with analytical methods and lose the opportunity to feel.
Supervisor: Henry Hanson Research Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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