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ABOUT My name is Chou, Hung-Ming and I graduated from Tamkang University with a BA degree in Architecture. I am Taiwanese and was born in Taipei City. I have a great deal of passion towards architecture and enjoy analyzing things from architecture perspectives. I must say, architecture has been part of my life for as long as could remember. During my freshman year as an undergraduate, I knew nothing about architecture. I ran around blacksmith and carpentry tools trying to search for the meaning of design. Soon after a year of professional training in school, I started build a basic understanding of what design is to me. Not long after I started my architecture pathway by becoming familiar with more architectural materials, design details and even urban planning. After five years of education, I only grew more enthusiastic and eager for advanced knowledge in the industry of architecture. I now feel the urge to grasp more practical skills to apply in the real life settings. My motivation is to give back to myself for all the devotion, but also to fulfill my long-term faith.
2008 time line
2009
Family
2010
Intersection
2011
2012
Tenant
Porject: Housing together
After knowing my potential in architecture, this case has made me realize how to make design more interesting. The “ISSUE� is what makes the case more attractive and intriguing. This case has made me understand how the choice of words can be symbolized to indicate different meanings, such as space, strategy, design methods and even details of the design.
Porject: The Library
A 2D design can ensure an interesting outcome. However, in this case, we look at the section as the main shaft, and through the large quantity of section sketches to construct the buildings. Furthermore, thoughts and ideas are combined with story lines to enlighten the interior space and to reach a more interesting and effective design.
Porject: Stay with Flourshing
Spatial design in a building should be the main character. However, when the building is placed in a certain degree of context, a good design should not render its originality. Regardless commercial activities, residential areas or performing arenas are the essential elements that could be brought to this case.
Porject: Performance Maywa Denki
This is a hypo-architectural design in Japan, which uses an Internet networking strategy to search for a performing group. The performing site is purposely designed, but randomly picked in Asia. The extension of the site enables the designer to fully elaborate on spatial design. However, the challenge comes from the integration of relationships among all the spaces, which is also my biggest gain in this case.
Housing Together 2009-10.winter
2012
2013
Porject: Hot spring Town
This is a hypo-architectural design in Spain. This challenge is out of my reach at the early stage due to the scales, data collection, integration of Green Energy Technology and the actual function of town. Conquering this case has benefited me from advancing my knowledge to the next level. The breakthrough of cultural and geological difficulties has broadened my viewpoints in architecture design. The process was not smooth, but the gain was precious.
2014
Farmer-Post Station
Porject: Farmer-Post Station
point1:a new space design for old street point2:new farmer with original traditional circumstances
This is the last case in my senior college and I chose a market that is only five kilometers away from my home in Taipei City. I tried to utilize all my architectural techniques on this case: The farmer Transfer Station. I faced many obstacles, but it became clear to me that I needed to obtain more knowledge and skills in the field of architecture in order to make it functional. This is truly what I hope to cultivate.
Porject: workshop
This was an extracurricular activity in my undergraduate years. I participated in a workshop in Japan, which includes leading universities such as National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), Tokyo Woman’s Christian University (Japan), and Nanjing University (China). Although I participated in countless workshops, there were two where I held important roles, such as curator, negotiator and decision maker.
Mix Together
Drawing Concept Section
Section About Activity
Issue
In the countryside, the three-section courtyard remains as a closed-system, but the interaction of people is still friendly and warm. However, people nowadays live in apartments that are detached and everybody lives closely to each other.
Draw Planning Modelling Design
Stay with Flourshing 2010-11.winter
Local Business Model
Taipei city About taipei city
Taipei is a narrow and small city. To illustrate the sequence of history, Taipei has developed rapidly and become the capital city of Taiwan. Regardless of politics, economics, culture and related issues, Taipei City has always been the core, which gradually extended its development outward. Consequently, buildings stand in great numbers; cars, motorbikes and even highways have filled in the whole city. Due to the development of convenient transportation, tourism is now prosperous in the city area. The busy city becomes suffocated during the daytime. In comparison, on the weekends or at night, the commercial district attracts more people. The unique business activities, purchasing behavior and the intermixture of residential and commercial streets have made Taipei City a different place. Nevertheless, in order to create a remodeled space under such an atmosphere, I allowed the buildings to blend in and enjoy the charisma of the nightlife in Taipei City.
Local Regional lifestyle and purchasing behavior at the nearby businesses are not a single case. The arcades bring business to this area. With the increase of crowds, the vendors are pushed onto the street to do business. Within only eight meters of the street, transportation, shoppers, and vendor businesses are all crowded and function together. In addition, long lines form at the well-known businesses, pushing people onto the street with cars and scooters squeezing through tight spaces. As a result, the pathway for the lines is altered accordingly all the time, just to co-exist with the transportation passing through. Prosperity is the distinguishing feature here, but every business is connected through residence. It feels like stepping into another world with just one turn.
Render
Model
Performance Group Maywa Denki
ECO TOWN HOT SPRING 2013.summer
spend time 3/4
concept
3/17
consensus compromise
Development of city
site analysis
site
water and life museum
a. Bar b. Grocery store c. Fix store d. Agricultural implements store
Pollution Assemble Batteries and electric motors are composed of minerals like nickel, copper and aluminum, which are toxic.
3/20 Navarre
pamplona
50Km 40mins
site
pamplona The population is rapidly growing from two hundred thousand.
Development of city
40 kg of coal, enough to no effect in coal-fired power plants produce 130 kWh electricity. These power allows 2.2 watt light emitting transistor (LED) bulbs, lit 12 hours a day for up to 30 years
3/17
2100~2500 kcal 2800~3100 kcal
case study
Creative
Famous Bodegas
Issue!! small town everybody have same consensus
electricity
ecological
Process
system
petroleum gas
air condition heater
water
w/hr 140 370 900 420 700 285 130 60
Factory 50 years
everyday predict hour 4 5 5 1 3 3 24 10
Public space
FOOD MILES
Before World War II, one calorie of fossil fuel to produce 2.3 calories of food, and now, 10 calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of supermarket food only.
Process cheaper labor
young couple grow up
barley cereal Fish
city
countryside
retire
pamplona The population is rapidly growing from two hundred thousand.
3/17
People are not participate in the system. And people only enjoy the system which is we made. There is no perfect system so far.
everyday every person make about 1.15kg garbage in the city ,so there is more less in the contryside. 200people everyday make 230kg. 40% could be recovery 30% kitchen waste 25% other......wood rock ceramics
the best solve is one week for clean garbage, but its impossible, so we have to find some where to put garbage.
Land to be developed
Future
the day- even more so on weekends and during the summer- sitting down to eat anytime from 9:00 until 11:00 in the evening.
a garbage car could carry 1500kg
refrigerator
Housing
2 times
More and more of the population and factory.
Housing + market
Green Energy
Tourism
The way to reduce pollution
garbage recycle save energy
1.we can wait and do nothing untill our technology is improve
3.Find out the enemy or targry
4/18
3/17
a. Plant the perfect cereal (something they can proud of the town) b. Fight to Electricity charge c. Fight cool temperature d. make town’s live function more complete
too focus on concept
pamplona
50Km
Electricity charge in spain ranked third in europe.
Yesa
40mins
2. maybe we can do something without high technology
Barley 10~20 C is good to make bear. ECO
asphalt concrete building human iron chemistry
&
store
A normal day's breakfast- or desayuno- typically consists merely of a cup of coffee, although it's also commonplace to accompany your steaming café con leche with a croissant or other pastry. While an American traditional breakfast has pancakes, bacon, and eggs, the Spanish "traditional" breakfast consists of the vastly popular churros, served sprinkled with sugar or dunked in hot chocolate. Spaniards eat their lunch, or comida, between 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Serving as the day's main meal, it is traditionally quite a bit larger than the dinner meal, or cena. A typical lunch will have several courses. The first course is the lighter part of the meal, usually consisting of a salad or soup, while the second course is normally your typical fish or meat dish. A dessert can be a simple piece of fruit, a typical Spanish flan, or a sweet pastry or cake. While there are of course many people who eat full meals, the Spanish dinner (cena) is traditionally much smaller than the midday comida. It often consisting of something lighter like a salad, a sandwich, or a selection of tapas. Spaniards eat late for this final meal of
Church + Hospital
item TV computer air condition washing machine heater dehumidifiers refrigerator bulb
CO2 1950 g CO2 7850 g g/km
Sell in market
Save more carbon
Roman Catholicism is the largest denomination of Christianity present in Spain by far. According to an February 2013 study by the Spanish Center of Sociological Research about 70.5% of Spaniards self-identify as Catholics
The way to save electricity
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factory
Old couple and children are living in the outside of city. vegetables
store
miton academy science building
Car Motobike Bus Airplane Train Vessel
cheap
Catch fish
young couple working in the city.
Car manufacturing and Machinery and equipment
More chance to meet other neighbor
a. Bar b. Church c. resturaunt
Carbon dioxide
Pollution Contrary to popular belief, the process of manufacturing solar panels can and does create enormous amounts of harmful and toxic waste. Because the most of the solar panels consumed in the west are manufactured in China, the nature and extent of this pollution is hidden from the consumers of solar panels. We get the illusion of 'green, clean energy' on our shores, by exporting environmental ruin to the countries where the panels are manufactured. Polysilicon manufacturing yields the byproduct silicon tetrachloride, a highly dangerous and toxic chemical.
Every week
housing store
6.program
Town
USER Old people and Children
2200~2700 Kcal
Renewable energy 14.5% wind power in spain Rank: 2 in Europe 4th in the world
store
Green Energy
expensive
Manufacturing polysilicon, requires a lot of coal, the production of solar panels in a 1m × 1.5m, it is necessary to burn more than 40 kg of coal and 20 years, the average life span of a solar panel.
5.seprate the store
pamplona
Tourism
We create different kind of system to save or make energy
3/14
case study
4/22
CARBON FOOT PRINT Car manufacturing and Machinery and equipment
someone lose more someone obtain more
Technology access foundation
3/17
Green power system
system
4.Festival
technology
living creature
ecological
animal plant microorganism
relationship
environment
soil rock water humidity air temperature
a. San Pamplona 奔牛節 b. Las Fallas 火節 c. Feria de Abril 四月春會
tropical forest desert south pole
Balance !!
3/14
bank of america tower
c a s e s t u d y
no relationship between site and concept
site
Bumper harvest
3/17
Green power system
3/17 Do not let rich people or poor people together
case study
solar
energy source system didn’t integrate in unite
4/11 2.Plan: Center
someone lose more someone obtain more
5.seprate the store
3/17
a. Bar b. Church c. resturaunt
privicy buffer space space
heat line
sell place
heat pump
plant
4/11
C’
A’
storage
AA’
solar panel
cold air
living room heat colder
absorb water
change air
collect water
A’
whashing place
badroom
cc’
unite
4/22
hothouse
heat pump BB’
mirror
Every week
housing
young couple working in the city.
Famous Bodegas
markplace
store
A normal day's breakfast- or desayuno- typically consists merely of a cup of coffee, although it's also commonplace to accompany your steaming café con leche with a croissant or other pastry. While an American traditional breakfast has pancakes, bacon, and eggs, the Spanish "traditional" breakfast consists of the vastly popular churros, served sprinkled with sugar or dunked in hot chocolate. Spaniards eat their lunch, or comida, between 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Serving as the day's main meal, it is traditionally quite a bit larger than the dinner meal, or cena. A typical lunch will have several courses. The first course is the lighter part of the meal, usually consisting of a salad or soup, while the second course is normally your typical fish or meat dish. A dessert can be a simple piece of fruit, a typical Spanish flan, or a sweet pastry or cake. While there are of course many people who eat full meals, the Spanish dinner (cena) is traditionally much smaller than the midday comida. It often consisting of something lighter like a salad, a sandwich, or a selection of tapas. Spaniards eat late for this final meal of
B
A badroom
solar panel
footprint
Old couple and children are living in the outside of city. vegetables barley meat fish cereal
fish cereal dry in the sun
sun
cold wind
kitchen
reading place
living room
solar panel
stuff
plant
C
bathroom
1:100 front door
second floor
wooden
third floor
slope
A
collect water
SYSTEM
Church + Hospital
3/17
design
CARBON FOOT PRINT
Development of city
Green Energy
pamplona The population is rapidly growing from two hundred thousand.
2800~3100 kcal 2200~2700 Kcal
B. save Cold wind
storage
Car Motobike Bus Airplane Train Vessel
cheap
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activity possiable happen activity
CO2 1950 g CO2 7850 g
activity
g/km
factory 2 times
More and more of the population and factory.
50 years Future
FOOD MILES
Before World War II, one calorie of fossil fuel to produce 2.3 calories of food, and now, 10 calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of supermarket food only.
4/22
B Plan: Center
housing public space
Catch fish
Every week
Process cheaper labor Sell in market
Old couple and children are living in the outside of city. vegetables
Save more carbon
barley cereal Fish
storage
heat
Town Carbon dioxide
Pollution Contrary to popular belief, the process of manufacturing solar panels can and does create enormous amounts of harmful and toxic waste. Because the most of the solar panels consumed in the west are manufactured in China, the nature and extent of this pollution is hidden from the consumers of solar panels. We get the illusion of 'green, clean energy' on our shores, by exporting environmental ruin to the countries where the panels are manufactured. Polysilicon manufacturing yields the byproduct silicon tetrachloride, a highly dangerous and toxic chemical.
USER Old people and Children
young couple working in the city.
energy source
Double wall
Dry something in the sun site
expensive
Pollution
A. Sell
C. Process
B. Dry
Tourism
Car manufacturing and Machinery and equipment
Assemble Batteries and electric motors are composed of minerals like nickel, copper and aluminum, which are toxic.
waterproof paper
B
B’
ground floor back door
Roman Catholicism is the largest denomination of Christianity present in Spain by far. According to an February 2013 study by the Spanish Center of Sociological Research about 70.5% of Spaniards self-identify as Catholics
pamplona
process
Housing + market
the day- even more so on weekends and during the summer- sitting down to eat anytime from 9:00 until 11:00 in the evening.
2100~2500 kcal
spend time
C
store
6.program
consensus
B’
privicy space
buffer space
grey water
marketplace
store
case study
heat
Renewable energy 14.5% wind power in spain Rank: 2 in Europe 4th in the world
store
electricity heat pump
absorb water
3/25
More chance to meet other neighbor
pittsburgh glass center
B
A
grey water kitchen
protect
40 kg of coal, enough to no effect in coal-fired power plants produce 130 kWh electricity. These power allows 2.2 watt light emitting transistor (LED) bulbs, lit 12 hours a day for up to 30 years
plaza housing
case study
solar panel
heat pump
collect heat
Manufacturing polysilicon, requires a lot of coal, the production of solar panels in a 1m × 1.5m, it is necessary to burn more than 40 kg of coal and 20 years, the average life span of a solar panel.
a. Bar b. Grocery store c. Fix store d. Agricultural implements store
rain water
bathroom
badroom
We create different kind of system to save or make energy
1.Break the class
consensus compromise
solar panel
collect water
living room
pipe
How to make consensus??
sidwell friend school
4/22
4/22 farmland
plaza housing
young couple
a. Bar b. Church c. resturaunt
C
site
grow up city
countryside
Housing + market retire
A
4/18
4/29
Architecture Design
Community Design
typeA
typeB
collect gray water
type A
typeC
gray water line
E A
D
public hot spring
B bedroom
bedroom
collect gray water
kitchen living room balcony
living room
living room
privacy hot spring
collect gray water
kitchen
public hot spring
solar panel
C’
bedroom
privacy hot spring
bedroom
E’
bedroom
D’ washing space
public hot spring
type B
bedroom
C
gray water line
solar panel
bathroom
bar
balcony
ground floor
roof plan
kitchen
bathroom ground floor ground floor
second floor
roof plan A’
balcony
second floor
roof plan
B’
1:100
1:100
F
E 1.5m
wood wood hempcrete metal
privacy hot spring
hot spring source
wind
type C
E 1:10
public hot spring
solar panel solar
co2
co2
BB’
EE’
solar panel
co2
hempcrete
co2
4.75m
tile
collect co2
co2
co2
G 1:10
hempcrete
nuclear family
wood
three generation
couple
more close public hot spring more good view
G
stone wood
electricity line
co2
collect co2
co2
1:10
F
on the flat
heat and gas
co2
on the half hill
on the top of hill
machine
AA’
CC ’
co2 line
DD’
more close reservoir
220 m
2
type A
187 m
2
type B
100 m
2
type C
End
Eco Town Self-sufficient To be continue
Farmer-post Station Graduate Design New farmer with orignal traditional circumstances A new space design for old street 2013-14
Farmer’s possible cultivation range
1km 1km
（Diagram of Operation Mechanism）
1km
1km
1km
Taipei city
seed skill
Taipei main hydrology
site
Farmer cooperative association
1km
tool cash virtual currency
Taipei songshan Airport city Farmer fruits vegetables
Suburbs
1km
Taipei city
site vegetable box
1km
exchange
1km
site
1km
change fruits by virtual currency
Taipei main roads
virtual currency 1km
Farmer cooperative association consumer
exchange
Suburbs
Farmer’s possible cultivation range
site
Relationship between traditional market and Taipei mountain range
Modelling
Design
Spacs Design
original space perception
relationship between shops and open space relationship between site and traditional market
relationship between space and the creation of more space through structure and voids
consumer lounge
phase of change
extension of green
space perception through blending of new and old buildings
plazza
relationship between platform and volume
relationship between site and fram
relationship between site and circulation
relationship between site and commercial activites
original building
pavement connected to the hillside
second floor platform
wooden component
original building
Design by CHOU HUNG-MING