B.S. in Engineering Bioenvironmental System Engineering National Taiwan University
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WORK School / Home Self
Modular House Self
Boat House Park Introduction to Architecture, Columbia University, summer 2011
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School What do elementary school’s students do after school before they go home?
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Elementary school’s students leave school at p.m. 4:30. Instead of walking home directly, they usually play around with friends, stop by food stands to have a ice tea or snack or being attracted by some interesting things on the way home.
I stalked one of the school’s students after she left school and then recorded where and when she went before home.
The student PM:30
Intersection The student Bo-Jane, my little cousin 9 years old.
Meichun river PM:35
PM:32 PM:38
PM4:30 31 mins 2.1 km PM5:01
PM:40 PM:50 PM:43
PM:45 PM:52
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PM:01
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On Her Way Home 1 The students are heading out of school 2. People like to put “DO NOT PARK” in front of their house 3. The place used to be a playground 4. An angry cat in a cage
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5 The first intersection out of the school 6. A tea shop 7. The street is full of scooters and cars 8. The sidewalk is occupied by the goods and vendors 9. “LEASE” 10. A church 11. Kids have to walk on the road
12 The meichun river 13. The Principal's house 14. A broken truck 15. A corner full of wastes
16 A rusty ammeter 17. The last intersection on the way back home 18. My cousin’s home.
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These energetic kids need a safe and fun place to stay after school. So they are far away from the busy traffic and other dangerous things that might happen on the road. Moreover, parents will know where to their children.
School
Started with a familiar and friendly character to kids.
Home
Mosaic
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Get rid off colors
Differentiate the components
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The model responds to the surroundings, the meichun river and the shapes of the other buildings.
The simple structure make it like a huge camp which is one of the most exciting thing to kids in their age.
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Look! There are birds!
Wait for me!
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Come on! Let’s go home!
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Modular House What should we do to deal with the rapid growth of human population and the limit of land?
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Geographic Condition
Broke the Limitation
More than 90% Taiwanese people live in cities that on the west part of Taiwan. The middle and east parts of Taiwan are full of mountains and gorges.
If we can broke the limit of geographic conditions then we have more land to use. That is to say, we don’t have to live in houses like bird cages.
90%
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Technique Traditional Taiwanese temples were built without glue, concrete or nails. People cut woods into different shapes for particular purposes like support, hang or just for decoration. Then these wooden parts would be combined into a bigger part like a roof or arch. Finally, fit all the parts together to build the temple.
Culture Longshan Temple, built in 1653, Lukan, Taiwan
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Economic In the 1960th, Kaohsiung, the south of Taiwan became well known for its bananas. In 1963, Japan port to receive Taiwanese bananas. Since the bananas have been very popular in Japan. Apparently, all money earned for banana exports to Japan accounted for a 3rd foreign trade. The value of 6 bananas used to equal to the value of an imported suit. Bananas were the best export business in Taiwan - like a Banana Kingdom.
Concept Banana’s shape, bundle and how bundles connect to each other are very good ideas to build human’s houses.
255,854 ton/year
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Model Use the technique from the traditional temple and the ideas from the banana to develop unit. The model is made of several main units and connectors. The connector make the model capable to change its shape to fit different conditions.
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The modular house fits to different ground conditions. That means it can be built on more places that in different geographic and geomorphic conditions.
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Boat House Park Free fun activities and joy, enjoy yourself by Hudson River.
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Hudson River
Greenway 10th./11th. Ave.
The High Line Park
The NYC Department of Sanitation is moving away. And there will be a new park on the original site.
NYC Department of Sanitation
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The High Line Park
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Revive The high line railway was using for goods transportation. In 1980th, the railway shut down, the area also became unprosperous. But now, after the High Line Park’s opening, it’s full of fancy restaurants, hotels and stores which are modified from abandoned factory or warehouse. This is a great instance of reviving old area.
Sounds great!
New Attraction Free Kayaking in the new park. It will be the first attraction in the new park. Don’t worry if you don’t feel like to do kayak, there are things you can enjoy in the park.
People More Attraction hotel, restaurant, bar, market, store
People
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Free Kayaking
Attraction
More People
New Park I can do this all day long
The High Line Park
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1. The High Line Park’s map 2. People’s distribution in the area 3. People’s movement by the bench in the High Line Park. 4. Paths among several attractions in the park. 5. The attractive levels of different attractions in the park. 6. The distance(cost) between different attractions. 7. Link points that circles overlap in graphic 6.
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Study the coffee box and try to find some useful techniques in folding paper.
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The idea is to connect strip to strip then roll them up.
Front
Side
Up
Changing the width, height and sequence cause the different types of stripes.
Inside
It contains a continuous space.
Every piece can fit to each other.
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Side
Up
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The foldable structure makes it capable to transform into varied kinds of shapes.
More types
It is like an adjustable plane that can change its own shape to meet different purpose like stairs or wall. YEN-PO CHEN
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Park Preview
The Sheet
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People’s movement in and out of the park.
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Before kayaking, you need to listen to safety instruction first then pick up a life jacket and put it on. Now you are good to go.
If you don’t feel like to do kayak, you still can have a lot of fun here, enjoy yourself.
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Education National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Jun. 2008 Department of Bio-environmental system Engineering -Valedictorian of Department -Head of Student Association of Department -Members of NTU POP Dance Club and NTU Skateboard Club Experience Intro to Architecture, Columbia University, NY, USA -Student, Jul. 2011 to Aug. 2011 Evans Burger, Shida branch, Taipei, Taiwan -PT Shift Leader, Mar. to Jun. 2011 -PT Waiter, Dec. 2010 to Feb. 2011 Productivity Arch. Construction Co., Ltd., Taichung, Taiwan -Assistant to General Manager, Oct. 2009 to Oct. 2010 Military Police of Taiwan 6th. Army Corp., Tao-yuan, Taiwan -Sergeant, Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2009 STEM LAB, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan -Honors Project, Sep. 2007 - Jun. 2008 Sampo Design Center, Tao-yuan, Taiwan -Summer Associate, Jul. 2007 to Aug. 2007 Personal Travel extensively through Asia. Native Mandarin speaker, fluent in Taiwanese(Hokkien) and I am working knowledge in Japanese. Interest include running, bike riding, photography, filming and playing Starcraft II YEN-PO CHEN