YUN-SHIH CHEN architect + landscape urbanist
selected works 2009 - 2017
curriculum vitae
YUNSHIH CHEN Urbanist + Architect Licensed Architect of Taiwan
EDUCATION
+31 64 58 01308 lune.chen@gmail.com https://issuu.com/ilune246
Postgraduate MSc Urbanism, Delft University of Technology | Delft, the Netherlands
2015-2017
Postgraduate Masters Urbanism, UniversitĂ Iuav di Venezia | Venice, Italy
2016-2017
Master of Architecture Professional Degree, Tunghai University | Taichung, Taiwan
2009-2013
Bachelor of Business Management, National Taiwan University | Taipei, Taiwan
2005-2009
European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism | CGPA 8.61 / 10 | CUM LAUDE European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism | CGPA 8.65 / 10
Master of Architecture | GPA 3.87 / 4 | Students Academic Research Award
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Information Management | GPA 3.71 / 4
EXPERIENCE
ATLANTIS Magazine, Polis, TUDelft | Delft, Netherlands
Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2016
EDITOR & AUTHOR | Magazine editing and article contributing
Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government | Taipei, Taiwan
Jan. - Jun. 2015
URBAN DESIGNER & PLANNER | social housing master plan; urban renewal feasibility study
J. M. Lin Architect / The Observer Design Group | Taipei, Taiwan
Apr. 2013 - Jan.2015
ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER | theater design; office design; campus dormitory planning feasibility study; shop drawings and committee documents; team leader with guest architect in international competitions;
J. J. Pan & Partners, Architects and Planners | Taipei, Taiwan
Jul - Sep. 2011
ARCHITECTURE INTERN | concept and architecture design; shop drawing; presentation
Wooyo Design Co., Ltd. | Taipei, Taiwan
Jan.-Feb. 2010 / 2011
NTU Student Counseling Center | Taipei, Taiwan
Sep. 2008 - Apr. 2015
ARCHITECTURE INTERN | interior design and shop drawing; participated in competitions GRAPHIC DESIGNER | brochure and e-paper layout design and illustration
PUBLISH
The Sensitive River Scape, the Sinuous Territory - Transforming Dajia River Basin as a WaterSensitive Landscape Infrastructure
Jun. 2017
Postgraduate Masters Urbanism Diploma Thesis | Delft, the Netherlands Jan.2013
Nature := Slices of Space x Time - Tayuling Tour-Realm Design
M.Arch Diploma Thesis | Taichung, Taiwan
EXTENSIVE ACHIEVEMENT
NTU Chorus Group Competition
2013
2nd Prize | participated in architecture design
Student Academic Research Award
3rd Prize 2013
Tunghai University Academic Performance
LEADERSHIP
LANGUAGE
Guanchi Social Housing Planning
2015
Liget Budapest International Competition
2014
Team leader
REFERENCES
2005
National Taiwan University Chorus
2006-2008
Co-chief / leader of information section
ACADEMIC AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, InDesign, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop, ArcGIS, QGIS, DepthMap, C++ Programming, SketchUP, Vray, Dreamweaver, Flash, Painter, Microstation, MS Office
MANDARIN Native
Taiwan International Science Fair 1st Prize in Computer Science
Team leader with guest architect
SKILLS
2006
NTU Chorus Group Competition
ENGLISH Fluent (TOEFL 104)
NTU Azalea Festival Department Exposition 2006 Leader of Publicity Team
PERSONAL Piano (qualified for teaching), Singing (10-year chorus experience), Violin (Basic), Painting (water color, sketch, Chinese ink-and-wash), Illustration, Web Design, Graphic Design, Swimming.
DUTCH Basic
JAPANESE Basic
FRENCH Basic (level a1)
Han Meyer | Professor of Urban Compositions - Department of Urbanism | TUDelft V.J.Meyer@tudelft.nl | +31 15 27 89805
Steffen Nijhuis | Research Director Landscape Architecture and Associate Professor | TUDelft S.Nijhuis@tudelft.nl | +31 62 12 54126
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KEELUNG PORT IN THE RAIN
watercolor by the author, 2014
contents
PAGE
SCALE
PROJECT
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Km2 1,200+
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50+
The Spaces of a Changing Society
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10+
Rethinking Havana:
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M2 100,000+
The sensitive riverscape, the sinuous territory
Transforming Dajia River Basin as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure Postgraduate Masters Urbanism Thesis | FEB - JUN 2017 complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/p5_seperate_yunshihchen
The porous spaces transformation in the city of Oderzo Situations scenarios Studio Work | SEP 2016 - FEB 2017 complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/the_spaces_of_a_changing_society
A framework of informality and vitality Constructing the Sustainable Delta City Studio Work | FEB 2016 - JUN 2016 complete project: https://issuu.com/antoinecanazzi/docs/booklet__modified_
1CM = 1 Million Years
Tayuling Tour-Realm Design Master of Architecture Thesis | FEB 2012 - JAN 2013 complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/sylviechen_pf
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30,000+
City Acupuncture
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10,000+
Sensible Cloudscape
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5,000+
The wind that tells
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500+
The Insertion of Zone Re-connectors Architecture Design Studio Work | SEP - DEC 2010
Taichung Cultural Center Competition Professional Work | MAR - JUN 2013
Keelung Harbour Composites Architecture Design Studio Work | APR - JUN 2011
Mass Orchestra
Juming Sculpture Museum Architecture Design Studio Work | SEP - NOV 2009
more works: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/emuyschen
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01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
Mapping of human activities in relation to the Dajia river landscape of three time periods. Source: by the author based on data from historical maps, historical descriptions, google maps, and GIS databases.
BEFORE 1850
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1850-1950
1950-TODAY
Steffen Nijhuis (S.Nijhuis@tudelft.nl) Han Meyer (V.J.Meyer@tudelft.nl) Paola Viganò (paola. vigano@studiopaolavigano.eu)
Site location: Dajia River Basin, Taichung, Taiwan
1200 KM2
THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY Transforming Dajia River Basin as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure This project explores the landscape potential of Taiwanese river valley in integrating water and river management with urbanism in the context of a highly sensitive, dynamic and fragile environment. Taking one of the most illustrative river basin, Dajia River, as the study case, the project tests the hypothesis of mountainous river as opportunity for transforming the river valley as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure. PROBLEM RIVER + MOUNTAIN = OBSTACLE PROBLEM FIELD
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Content: Landscape-based regional planning, landscape urbanism, water urbanism, landscape as infrastructure.
PLANNING
Supervisor:
100KM2
Thesis | Indivisual Work
DESIGN
FEB - JUN 2017
PROBLEM STATEMENT Heavy-engineered approach of the existing water infrastructure reaching bottle neck: Efficacy significantly decreasing
study case testing site
-- sensitive & fragile landscape
HYPOTHESIS/RESEARCH BY DESIGN RIVER + MOUNTAIN = OPPORTUNITY DAJIA RIVER LANDSCAPE
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-- challenging water management EXTERNAL THREATS Climate changes Socio-economic shifts
Rainfall getting extreme and unpredictable Cannot prepare the territory for future change
dam or reservoirs hydro-power plants water treatment plants source or water supply main line or pipes agricultural irrigation area Dajia river before 1890
complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/p5_seperate_yunshihchen
01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
STRATEGIC PLAN AND LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES
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4x Current water infrastructure: mono-functional and linear system
Transformed water infrastructure: multi-functional matrix system
LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES
Agriculture - wet farming (rice)
Agriculture - dry farming (fruits/tea/grains)
Existing habitation
Historical river courses
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Horizontal corridor between national parks
Existing protected forestry
Vertical corridors along streams normal streams low mudslide risk streams
Prospering forestry Existing forestry trails
medium mudslide risk streams
New forestry / slope-work trails
high mudslide risk stream
Maintenance points
MOBILITY
Slope stabilization
PUBLIC SPACES
National Park
SLOPE
CORRIDOR
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3
9KM
Machinery track for shipping Maintenance points Public transportation stops + moving kiosk & evacuation points (1 km coverage) Water infrastructure interventions Groundwater infrastructures
01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
STRATEGIC TOOLS Landscape as future spatial framework
PHASING THE TRANSFORMATION Hybridizing local activities
upstream
ACTORS
INSTITUTION MODEL
PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE
farmer environmental associations
Establish connection and sequence between activities
Water management as local collective activity
illegal house residents
Maintain proper proportion of different land uses
tourism service provider
Government-initiate to guide transformation Provide incentives or compensation
Hybridize alpine agriculture to create corridor
farmer
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develop autonomous units
left-behind forestry labour
Water infrastructure as visible public spaces
Use of (micro)topography
multi-functional + multi-scale
gravity as flow carrier
Recover the hidden flows
Sediment (from erosion) recycle and reduction
hyporheic water / historical river courses / micro-topography
illegal building owner
both regional and local scale
forest park operator
Legitimacy pressure + policy-change + incentive
Prosper forestry to suppress agriculture sprawl on slopes
farmer
illegal building owner farmer family living in rundown houses
water-retaining wall / rice terrace structure downstream
Legitimacy pressure + profitable model Encourage bottom-up initiation of local actors
Hybridize coastal plain agriculture to create corridor
2030
2050
2100
mitigate the urgent problems
reservoirs capacity - 50%
the post-reservoir era
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01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
design strategy landscape operative structure
DOWNSTREAM INTERVENTION: KAOMEI AREAS LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES
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CORRIDOR
SLOPE
MOBILITY
PUBLIC SPACE
Hybridization agriculture initiated from the historical rivers courses
Micro-topography define flooding area and hidden water flow (hyporheic zone).
Circular route of multifunctional public transport stops.
Water-collection at empty spaces and fallowed fields.
TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY
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0
200
600M
DESIGN INTERVENTION
Incentivized ecotourism investments Potential renovation of private properties Religious buildings Illegal / unregistered industrial factories Proposed bus route
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N 0
50
150M
01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
a. RECOVER HISTORICAL RIVER COURSES GROUND LEVEL deepen fields empty fields turn into pond water intervention
- 1.2M - 2.5M - ~1M
AREA
WATER QUANTITY
38,800 m2 64,500 m2 18,700 m2
38,800 m3 (1m floodable) 97,000 m3 18,700 m3 2
1,391,000 m
Zoom-in site
322,800m3
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695,500m (600mm-24hr: ~0.5m flooding)
46% released by + spaces for water
deepen fields
~1 meter floodable Aquatic vegetable farming deepen the fields for 1.2M
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b. COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACTIVITIES - Grain sunning place + local household on roads on trenches small reservoir
Hydrography interventions
Operative structures ...
- Religious place + plaza + agricultural fields
corridor
on trenches small reservoir
public space
corridor public space
... before / after
before / after
small temple next to the fields
lowered existing field
existing empty building
local temple
plaza in front of temple
COMMUNITY REVITALIZED BY RECOVERING THE HISTORICAL RIVER COURSES
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traditional houses multifunction rennovation
private open spaces
public transportation + moving kiosk system
01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
UPSTREAM INTERVENTION: LISHAN - HUANSHAN AREAS LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES
CORRIDOR
SLOPE
MOBILITY
PUBLIC SPACE
Hybridization agriculture starting from horizontal corridor axis.
Slope stabilization by forestation or installing stabilizing structures
Circular route of multi-functional public transport stops.
Water-collection at empty spaces and fallowed fields.
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local church
existing retaining wall
community center
hostel modify small roads' pavement
breakfast restaurant
20%
20%
rice terrace
fruit farming
5%
irrigation pond
25%
DESIGN INTERVENTION river/reservoir sediment
100%
reforestration
material for renovation
surplus water
a. SLOPE ACTIVITY HYBRIDIZATION
30%
sustainable forestry
Huanshan community
material
material for structures
fruit farming
pond
soil expose to rain -> strong erosion shallow-root plantation CURRENT SITUATION: EXTENSIVE FRUIT FARMING
rice terraces
fruit farming
irrigation
slope stablizing underflow + surface water
forest collect & filter water distribution by gravity
HYBRIDIZED ACTIVITY WITH APPROPRIATE PROPORTION
design strategy landscape operative structure
recycling reservoir sediment
public or public-oriented buildings private building for public/visitor service public-initiated water spaces modification of existing retaining walls DIY rain gardens private households joining rennovation
existing retaining wall
local church gathering spaces
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WATER SYSTEM AS PUBLIC SPACES private buildings for public services (hostels, snackbar, retail stores)
public buildings (schools, church, community centre)
KNOW-HOW
community public/water space
modify pavement
INCENTIVE TECH- AID
sharing facilities
existing retaining wall
renovate existing small community modify retaining digging centre pavement wall (~2m)
sharing working facilities (van, trolly)
PRIVATE-JOINED DIY RAIN GARDEN private households joining rennovation
private households joining rennovation DIY rain gardens
0.25
0.5
0.75
1KM
01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY
LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION
TODAY
2030 FIRST PHASE TRANSFORMATION Regional scale: Mitigation of the urgent problems by starting agrarian activity hybridization and slope stabilization along the designed corridor axis. Local scale: Public-initiated water retention spaces.
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complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/p5_seperate_yunshihchen
FINAL IMAGE Incrementally transformed slope activities. Incentivized private-joined renovation and DIY water-gardens.
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02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY
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Map of public spaces’ porosity potential The open spaces or public functions in the city with their possiblity to adapt t h e m s e lve s t o t h e c h a n g i n g s o c i a l structures.
POROSITY POTENTIALS FOR FRACTIONS high
low
Content: Urban planning and design intervention based research of social issues.
PLANNING
50 KM2
Site location: Oderzo, Veneto, Italy
10KM2
Supervisor: Paola Viganò (paola. vigano@studiopaolavigano.eu)
Oderzo, città archeologica, a middle size Italian town, has undergone significant social changes that are reflected in its contemporary layers of landscape, urban tissue and the mobility systems. Villas, vineyards, rivers, medieval churches, modern infrastructure and industrial platforms give the pace of continuity from the ancient times to today.
DESIGN
Academic | Group Work with Magdalini Papadam
The porous spaces transformation in the city of Oderzo
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1870s
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1955
2016
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SEP 2016 - JAN 2017
THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY
THE CHANGING SOCIETY, THE CHANGING WORLD “… The European Union is facing unprecedented demographic changes (an aging population, low birth rates, changing family structures and migration)” — EMPL, European Commission
Starting from social study approaches, we address issues that formulate the link between space and its users in the context of demographic structure changes. The project explores how space can adapt to the crucial, accelerating and inevitable social changes, densify opportunities and incrementally transform a diverse facets of collective life.
Sources: 1. http://www.ristoranteragazzon.it 2. http://picclick.it/Odezo-Piazza-Del-Popolo-Treviso-1955-381275176922.html 3. Photo by the author
Three social groups are significant in proportion changes: the aging population in need for high(er) living standards; the teenagers gradually turning away from the cityscape; and the new migrants population. Observing the idiorythms of everyday life within the housing typology and its dispersed configuration, the project takes the existing spatial structures as the cornerstone of transformation, projecting possible future scenarios of energy, housing, and public space networks.
complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/the_spaces_of_a_changing_society
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02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY
A MORE AND MORE POROUS CITY What will happen if voids keep growing in the city?
? Consider the inevitable demographic changes, economic crisis, and climate changes, will a toohollowed city-scape become an obstacle to a more sustainable and resilient lifestyle?
2001
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MAPS OF EMPTY DWELLINGS* IN 2001 AND 2011 The city has becoming significantly more porous in the past 10 years. * the data dwelling refers to every individual unit able to accommodate an individual use.
(data description originally in Italian: Abitazioni vuote e abitazioni occupate solo da persone non residenti)
2011
= One empty dwelling, which can be: 1.
Vacant building, possibly abandoned
2.
Vacant apartment or underused part of a house
3.
Dwellings that belong to residents not officially registered in Oderzo km0
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10
15
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TREND SCENARIO What if the trends of social changes continue? Heavy costs on social-welfare and health-care expenses. Degradation of building stock and open spaces.
Housing price rise and become unaffordable for young population Extensive urbanization
More senior housing & social facility required Unaccessible green spacesor car parking
COUNTERACTING SCENARIO What if we lessen the social pressures brought by the demographic trend?
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A strategy of retrofitting regarding the housing stock with progressive densification of the compact tissues Creation of new voids will be filled by new kind of public spaces, enhancing the vitality of the city
Integrating empty voids into collective space network
Integrating reuse of empty voids with l andscape or local production
Pedestrianized spaces
Release empty voids for improving living environment with nature or as passages
Hybrid green spaces freely accessible for all groups of people
Activities to attract young population
Incentivize new use of spaces
Green vegetation
More performative public transport stops
02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY
POROSITY IN THE SPACE WHERE WE LIVE POROSITY OF MATERIAL
embedded ability to absorb diversity Multi- family housing
Dwellings with shared entrance and part of common spaces.
small family
large family single resident core family couple diverse types of households
Mixed-use housing
Commerce and services in the groundfloor, housing on top.
single resident
(1) individual dwellings in horizontal configuration
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Dwellings with individual entrance that leads directly into the house, designed for one household.
couple diverse types of households
limited types of households
(2) individual dwellings in vertical configuration
(3) with secondary structure, often productive
family shrinking new use of space rent-out energy-sharing urban agriculture storage ...
family expanding re-fabrication of interior spaces
potential of adapting to houshold structure changes
large family
diverse types of commercial activities
Single-family housing
POROSITY OF FRACTURE
ability to adapt and enhance diversity
limited types of households
(4) individual structure house with garden
family expanding re-fabrication of interior spaces
family shrinking new use of space
potential of integrating commercial activities with household structure changes
family shrinking new use of space
family expanding re-fabrication of interior spaces
potential of adapting to houshold structure changes
family expanding adapting to changes by expanding spaces for living
family shrinking new use of space
Vacant buildings
Unused or underused spaces
Non-residential dwellings
(1) public buildings, sport (2) educational and commercial facilities (3) industry and warehouses
MAP OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSING TYPES Porosity of material: the embedded ability of the buildings to contain diverse household compositions. Porosity of fracture: the spaces' ability to adapt to or influence the changing patterns of the household structure in relation to the use of spaces.
flexible in making change of space size
Railway River Multi-family housings Mixed-use housings Single-family housings Vacant/ abandoned housings
km 0
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY
COUNTERACTING SCENARIO VISUALISATION
SCENE 1: CITY CENTRE The “Rambla Opitergina” at Piazzale Vittoria
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Rambla Opitergina proposal, view near Via Giuseppe Mazzini The decreasing car use generates voids at the extensive parking of Piazzle della Vittoria Integrating the released open spaces will incrementally transform the avenue into a a casual, comfortable and pedestrian-friendly axis that facilitates various kinds of activities, linking to the existing public spaces in the historical center. Empty dwellings will be recycled into new use to provide more collective social life.
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The axis leads to the hospital and social-care facilities, therefore a pedestrianfriendly connection with is important. Alone the axis there are underused monumental squares, buildings, fenced parks, and empty dwellings. Filling these spaces with new opportunities, the axis has the potential to become a normal, casual and hybrid setting, offering more options of collective life to the society.
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Rambla Opitergina proposal, view at Via Montegrappa, looking southward
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Oderzo historical centre
Train station
Caserma Zanusso
Village Piavon
02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY
COUNTERACTING SCENARIO VISUALISATION
SCENE 2: PERIPHERY - Special opportunities in combinition with local industry and facilities
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Border of village Piavon proposal, more performative daily-life services The concentration of mono-functional, car-based and daily-life services display dull open spaces, impeding opportunities of integration with neighboring resources. With the decrease of car use, the shopping and waiting (for bus) articulate the potential to show better performances. The spatial re-qualification around the hypermarket, for example, will change the space from routine to a hybrid venue for leisure and social.
Current energy model
Proposed energy model emission of hot air
indoor heating
waste of heat
soil heating
discharge of hot water thermal pollution public space warming-up Agriculture land
HEATING CONTRACTOR
During winter, the farmers spread some chemical particles to prevent the soil from frozen.
FROZEN FOOD INDUSTRY
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Public spaces In winter days, many public spaces remain empty.
CLOSED FACTORY HYPERMARKET
Residential housings
PROPOSED DENSIFICATION
The heating-up of residential spaces requires heating facilities which consumes a lot of gas. TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
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Specialized opportunities with existing functions
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Oderzo historical centre
At the border where residential, industry, education, and agriculture meet, we propose densification to make use of the released lands from current parkings and closed factories. The housing not only brings new public spaces, it is also a sustainable model of energy sharing, linking new opportunities to individual functions.
Train station
Caserma Zanusso
Village Piavon
complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/the_spaces_of_a_changing_society
03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON
CASABLANCA AS A LIVEABLE METROPOLITAN PARK OF HAVANA BAY
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landmark / preserved buildings kept and re-used buildings green areas concerned waterscape interventions protected wetland
Content: Constring sustainable delta cities design with water; green-blue infrastructure
PLANNING
50 KM2
Site location: Casablanca, Havana, Cuba
10KM2
Supervisor: Han Meyer (V.J.Meyer@tudelft. nl), Birgit Hausleitner (B.Hausleitner@tudelft.nl)
DESIGN
Academic | Group Work with EMU colleagues
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FEB 2016 - JUN 2016
RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON A framework of informality and vitality
Cuba, a world stopped in the "special time" after the end of cold war, has been suffering isolation and serious economical crisis. Today, the political-economical transition has forced Cuba to compromise and open. Havana is in a middle of an overwhelming changes that will reflect in the urban scape. The tourism growth, the climate change, and the shifting of the industrial port from the Havana Bay are the three main drivers that bring potentials as well as threats. Different questions arose in our attempts to rethink the Havana Harbour: can we propose a new framework for action which can be all environmentally, socially and spatially responsive? 31 OVERALL STRATEGY (group proposal) Havana Bay a sequence of amphitheater organizing different relationship at edges of the habitation and water.
complete project: https://issuu.com/antoinecanazzi/docs/booklet__modified_
03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON
THE CASABLANCA At Casablanca, the landscape exhibits powerful identity with the limestone ridge falling into the bay, and settlements inhabiting on the steepest part of the slope. The studio proposal consolidates the role of the area being the metropolitan park for the city of Havana.
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This project approaches from the neighborhood perspective to provide at higher level a development scheme, and then zooms in with interventions to upgrade public spaces, integrated with green-blue and mobility networks. The aim is to achieve a sustainable framework that not only provide betterment to the living environment, but also preserve the area's vitality and spatial quality, helping the place to build a stronger identity and a coherent connection to Havana metropolitan as a whole.
Cristo de La Habana 1953 Castillo de San Carlos 18th Century
Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro 16th Century
Fisher village since 16th Century
Observatory tower 1900s
Hillside informal houses since 18th Century Cabotage and carpenter Workshops since 1740s
Military barracks, warships since 1780s
Container Industries since 1960s
Marsh wetlands
SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS informal residing housings along the slope
low density with scattered vacant spaces
0
hilltop: port-related technology institutes residing neighborhoods manufacturing/ military area
private/ inaccessible spaces public/ semi-public spaces
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criteria of vitality
240M
0 8
semi-open spaces elements that blocks accessibility
24M
railway wall/ fence street vitality
low --------- high
SPATIAL ISSUES Disconnection between green and blue
Vacant land
Lack of natural and artificial water supply
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Deterioration of public spaces and physical facilities
Vitality attractors
INTERVENTION CONCEPT
Rainwater network
vertical inaccessibility
enhance vertical connection
public space + water network
Vertical connection
03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON
MAPPING THE SPATIAL POTENTIALS 1. Mapping of vacant lands Vacant space with green vegetation Vacant spaces with hard pavement
1+2 potential location for public space intervention
3+4 potential location for rainwater harvesting
2. Mapping of vitality and semi-public functions Buildings Semi-public functions Vibrant streets
3. Mapping of public owned green spaces public-owned green spaces
4. Mapping of water flows Direction of water flow
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Lower points of the ridge / flatter parts on steep slopes
DEFINE PUBLIC SPACES Open spaces to be created (green-blue network + public spaces) Maintain existed open spaces Gov-owned green spaces
Public buildings Non-residential functions Buildings to be taken out Neighborhood blocks
school
Sta tio n
fer ry p oin t
Kios k & ca fe
DESIGN INTERVENTION 0
20
60M
me con dical sul tatio n
stor e stor e
Observatory Tower
existing park
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03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON
PHASING THE TRANSFORMATION GREEN-BLUE NETWORK
MOBILITY SYSTEM
existed green private green protected wetland water system defined public spaces
PHASE 1 existed bus line new bus line train (cancelled)
declined railway to be replaced by bus line
integrate public space with rain harvesting
PHASE 2 complete water system in the neighborhoods
tramway
change bus into tram; keep the original main roads in industrial and military
enlarge ecology park to clean industrial pollutions
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raise public transportation and walkability of streets in neighborhoods
downgrading several roads in the neighborhoods to pedestrian ways
CITY ENVELOPE Constructing a stronger landscape identity: Visual quality from important public spaces Ensure visibility of landmark and the hill ridges from the bay and historical centre, maintaining tourism potentials and the symbol of metropolitan park
HISTORICAL CENTRE
HAVANA BAY
shorten street blocks densify by in-filling
maintain living spaces visual quality
CASABLANCA
SPACIAL QUALITY
Institutional functions integrated with public accessible landscape design for rain-water network Semi-public functions serve as the attractor of people to come to the inserted greenblue corridors Soften the atmosphere of streetscape with water and vegetation, providing more shadows and better atmospheres
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04 - 1CM = 1,000,000 YEARS
S L: VISITOR CENTER M: MOUNTAIN HOSTEL S: TEA HOUSE + W.C.
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100
200 M
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TAYULING AS A TIME-SPACE COMPLEX With the encircling valley and saddled ridge, Tayuling's unique landform embraces natural forces of all directions and people from everywhere with their activities. NATURE := TIME-SPACE COMPLEX Nature = net of dynamic relationships
All the things, phenomena, and population, carry their own timetable and logic, meeting and colliding here. Therefore a complicated, interlocked, and intertwining Time-Space Complex is being composed.
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30,000M2 PLANNING
Site Location: Tayuling Alpine Area, Nantou, Taiwan Content: Landscape architecture planning + design
15,000M2
Supervisor: Hao-hsiu Chou (hchiu@thu.edu.tw)
DESIGN
Thesis | Individual Work
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FEB 2012 - JAN 2013
1CM = 1,000,000 YEARS Tayuling Tour-Realm Design
As we walk one centimeter, we're actually crossing thousands of miles and millions of years. The accumulation of advances has allowed people to overcome nature’s limit and develop our own scales of time and space. With what attitude should artifacts held when entering natural spaces? This project first generates a delicate and appropriate attitude for architectures, or artifacts, to enter a natural space. Secondly, develop a method for a TOUR-REALM* design that integrates constructions with the atmosphere and essence of a natural place, or the land. *TOUR-REALM Refers to an integrated trajectory for experiencing a place.
TAYULING Water shed of Liwu and Dajia rivers Traversed since 18th century, the excavation of alpine since 1950s Important traffic node connecting the east and west sides of Taiwan End of Ancient Trail in Red Pine Woods
Ridge of Central
He-Huan Ancient Trail
Ge olo gy al tit ud e4 0o ES
Mountains
Tayuling Saddle Point
He-Huan Tunnel East Exit
complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/sylviechen_pf
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SLICE
M Mountain Hostel
along Ancient Trail in the Pine Woods
DEBATE BETWEEN PROTECTION AND DEVELOPING Current facilities consider solely function and economy The ongoing debate between absolute protection and development could not find an intermediate agreement
THE SLICE METHOD A slice is a small piece of section representing the whole, captured from the environment and does not break the continuity or relationship within nature.
most nature-protected life separated from nature.
forthright and active damage to environment.
SLICE
S W.C. + Tea House
on Ridge and Saddle Point of Tayuling
TAYULING TOUR-REALM The three designs with each place are three time-space slices. They can be experienced seperately to explain the spirit of one place at a time. Or, with a throughout tour, they compose the Tayuling Tour-realm where people sense and learn the Genius Loci of the site. Together the whole design exhibits the overall complex state of the place, telling the story of Tayuling.
SLICE
L Visitor Center
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at East Exit of Hehuan Tunnel
TIME SPAN
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Orogeny Tayuling Synclinorium Plate Collision Slate Metamorphism Cross-Island Highway Backward Erosion
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Season Alternation Plant Evolution Red Pine Needles Ancient Crossing Trail Tree Canopy
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Climbing Clouds and Fogs Cloud Sea Watershed Clouds Influx
LOCATION
East exit of Hehuan Tunnel at intersection of Motorway 8 & 14
End of the ancient Hehuan Corssing Trail at 41.1 K Motorway no.14
Saddle point above Hehuan Tunnel on the ancient Crossing Trail
PROGRAM
VISITOR CENTER
MOUNTAIN HOSTEL
TEA HOUSE + W.C.
STRATEGY
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SLICE L: VISITOR CENTER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Entrance Office Restaurant Kitchen Shop Toilet Bus Waiting Parking
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SECTION A Geology: developed foliation surface (rock cleavage) Propose a collapse-tolerated structure system
SOUTH-EAST ELEVATION
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The structure system tolerates small collapsings of slate terrain. 7
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SLICE M: MOUNTAIN HOSTEL
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SUNLIGHT PROJECTION
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Trunks and canopy define density, and density define spaces Density changes with weather, like plants' vicissitudes D
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DINE
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WASH
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TOILET
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The trees and piles define density, and density defines spaces.
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SLICE S: W.C. + TEA HOUSE
SECTION B NATURE
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NATURE HUMAN
SADDLE LANDFORM
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CLOUD MOVEMENT MAPPING 3
Both concave and convex terrain Clouds and mist flow along the hillside everyday, bringing water vapors to/from materials
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Tea House Viewing Platform W.C. Ancient Trail
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Equidistant sequence of wood piles stand as mist indicator.
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05 - CITY ACUPUNCTURE
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Supervisor: Wei Tseng (wei_ tseng@hotmail.com) Site Location: Taichung, Taiwan
30,000M2
CITY ACUPUNCTURE
The Insertion of Zone Reconnectors The development of Taichung has gone through different government regimes, each holding different aims for region planning. The discontinuity of city planning resulted in some region began to decline, or left abandoned, unable to improve. Function-oriented zones were built up regardless of their neighbors. Walls, fences, or the covering up of rivers, disperse as disconnectors within the city. 1920s
1970s
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DESIGN
Content: Urban analysis and intervention design proposal.
ANALYSIS
Academic | Individual Work
10,000M2
SEP - DEC 2010
INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS A city comprises countless invisible connections, contributing to the city's operation system.
Along the boundary, by adding one more use of warm water, the industrial and agricultural function are reconnected, as well as the consumption of natural resource reduced. industrial zone DISCONNECTOR: RETAINING WALLS
agriculture zone
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industrial zone RECONNECTOR: WATER SYSTEM
ONE MORE USE OF WATER
INCREMENTAL TRANSFORMATION The water system can be incrementally implemented to transform the disconnector - the gap between industrial and agricultural areas into a more sustainable infrastructure model, as well as a lively corridor in the city landscape.
Applicable acupuncture points
agriculture zone
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URBAN DISCONNECTORS As the city grew, disconnectors gradually accumulated in the urban scape where functions were installed without integration with the existing context. The disconnectors disrupt the ecological, social, and cultural flows of the city.
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1. Campus 2. Industrial Zone 3. Technical Factory 4. Landfill 5. Agriculture Zone 6. Bus Parking 7. Hospital 8. Cemetery 9. Military Zone 10. Luxurial Residential Zone 11. City Government
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Regions cut, blocked, or burried by disconnectors, were left unplanned and unplesently abandoned. 50 Industrial zone since 1970s. Retaining wall built to consolidate the industrial region. Farmers grow rice here since before 1920.
ACUPUNCTURE PROCEDURE
AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRIAL
Proposed water model: Water usage +1
Water recollecting system
TDS < 500ppm
RECONNECTED URBAN SCAPE additional space for activity and rest. Shifting 6M to enable cargo passing and the landscape corridor.
An abandoned factory become resting places and platform.
Warm water monitoring.
spaces for workers' break times or interactive activities. Warm water related function.
Control the warm water distribution.
Seedings growing by applying warm water. ( t r a d i t i o n a l ly g ro w e l s e w h e re o r w i t h water warming facility)
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Site Location: Taichung, Taiwan Role: Site analysis, concept and design diagrams, landscape design and 3D + 2D presentation.
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10,000M2
Project Manager: Jou-ming Lin (jm@jmlin.com.tw)
DESIGN
Professional | Group Work
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MAR - JUN 2013
30,000M2 STRATEGY
06 - AROUND THE TREES
ACTIVE + SENSIBLE PLATFORM
Sensible systems installed within and around the architecture, transforming the museum x library into a dynamic, living Sensible Cloudscape.
SENSIBLE CLOUDSCAPE
NTU student dormitory Feasibility Study The project converts the nostalgia of former Shui Nan Airport site to a transparent, light, and translucent space that is not only spatially responsive, but also tangible and sensible. It is a Cloudscape with an unique form, creating a dynamic platform for observation and sharing. In a world where interaction of information and knowledge being the key of culture cultivation, this Cloudscape of Taichung Cultural Center is a sensible and organic existence in metropolitan. Its ability to sense and deliver will spread culture to the city and present Taichung to the World.
SAUNTERING ARCHITETURE So that the public gains more than two times the verdant green.
A. Green start along city entrance
B. The Ocean of Pi exhibiting water show
C. Outdoor stage for free performances
D. Floating Cloud theatre
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E. Water plaza as extension space of library
ENTRANCE IMAGE FROM TAICHUNG CITY
F. Sky ledder for the arts
Design as one of the smart node in Jade Park
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CLOUD PATH People's aesthetics of living and the extention of the literary landscape.
2F LIBRARY READING TERRACE (in charge of the terrace landscape design) Refreshing water landscapes extending the relaxing atmosphere of the reading spaces in the library.
G ra n d e s ca l a to r c l i m b i n g through museum, previewing spectacular art works and exhibition spaces.
Get ready on the wooden platform and seats, epic motion stories are coming to the giant outdoor screen
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Public palza Cloud path start Shop & cafe entrance Museum lobby Library lobby
6 Rainwater pool 7 Auditorium 8 Exhibition room 9 Children's reading room 10 "Life of Pi" scene
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Sky Park
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TC Center
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN (in charge of the ground floor landscape design)
Wave-generating pool where many scenes of the movie "Life of Pi" was shot. 10
INFINITIVE MUSEUM X LIBRARY Maximized benefit through combination of programs and seperation of management.
Cloudtop park: a rooftop art space for young artists to experiment and innovate for the contemporary arts.
It's a Sensible Cloudscape for international exchange of art trends and promote the living aesthetics of the world.
The 365-meter gradual ascending to the roof floor aim to provide a serial and consequent experience of the soothing park atmosphere, while installing various accessible venues for cultural activities and exhibition within its reach.
The Cloud Path spans from the ground through the exterior landscape of Cloud Museum.
Overlooking the tide-generating pool, the ocean of Pi promises a stunning fountain show.
VIEW FROM JADE ECO PARK
CLOUDTOP ARTSCAPE (in charge of the roof top landscape design)
Cozy corners beside the trees for individual meditation or chats among friends.
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07 - THE WIND THAT TELLS
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15,000M2 STRATEGY
Site Location: Keelung, Taiwan Content: Historical building reuse and harbour complex's urban and architecture design.
DESIGN
Supervisor: Chun-kai Fang (fang1217@gmail.com)
Keelung Harbour Complex
Keelung Port plays an important role in the commerce and shipping industry. Now the inner port area has become a rather tourism place and waterfront gateway of northern Taiwan. However, most of the waterfront areas are blocked and inaccessible to the sea. This project provides recreation facilities and public spaces, reusing the historical Port Bureau. The design use wind as a main factor to activate the vicinity, increase sea accessibility, and open the view in front of the train station, the entrance of the city. KEELUNG PORT IMPRESSION: THE WIND CONNECTS EVERYTHING 57
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Academic | Individual Work
4000M2
APR - JUN 2011
THE WIND THAT TELLS
DESIGN CONCEPT Minimizes indoor waiting spaces; maximize outdoor and waterfront activities; introduce natural wind as vitalizor.
07 - THE WIND THAT TELLS
CONTEXT ANALYSIS Port development has blocked accessibility to water. The location of the project situates between the oldest part of the harbour and the railway station, thus it has the potential to bring the image of merchant harbour back to the city's daily life. The active natural could also bring air flow and movement to the dense city of Keelung.
URBAN STRATEGIES
DAILY WIND DIRECTION AND SPEED WIND DIRECTION IN WINTER
WIND DIRECTION IN SUMMER
ACTIVITIES + WIND
WIND speed direction
1 Ground floor activities for visitors to traverse.
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WATER ACCESSIBILITY
3 Broad view from city entrance.
Waterfront activity Container Terminal Fishing Port/Market
4 Hotel units apply wind for ventilation.
Passenger Terminal Military / Gov. Use Facility / Factory Public / Recreation
5 Wind + fabric shape a kinetic plaza.
Water accessibility LOW
HIGH
2 2 1
SECTION A 0 2 4
10M
1 Exhibition Lobby 2 Exhibition Room
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4 3
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ENTRANCE FACADE
10M
1 2 3 4
Hotel Multiple-use Room Guest room Exhibition Lobby Exhibition Room
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08 - MASS ORCHESTRA
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50M2 STRATEGY
SEP - NOV 2009
Content: Art museum design with developing spatial concept based on artist's artworks.
DESIGN
Site Location: Taichung, Taiwan
The project aims at developing the museum's spatial form to that could express the essence of Ju Ming's sculpture works. Starting from a plain form of the materiality -- a simple cube, the diversified proportion and scale of the masses together with their various combination, orchestrate the dynamic articulation of Ju Ming's sculpture works.
DESIGN AS A CASUAL LIVING ROOM AMONG CULTURAL FACILITIES
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Supervisor: Hom Liou (homliou@gmail.com)
Ju Ming Sculpture Museum
20M2
Academic | Individual Work
MASS ORCHESTRA
CONCEPT MOVEMENT + SUBSTANCE
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10 M
TRUE ď &#x201E; FALSE Situated inside the museum park of National Taiwan Gallery of Fine Arts, the location of the museum plays as an casual skit between formal cultural facilities. Therefore, the museum provides a cut-through passage connecting to other parts of the park, such as the fountain and the basement courtyard. The articulation of different slopes also provide a diverse multi-functionality as a space for visitors and local residents to chill out.
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tables
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shear wall
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water landscape
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alcove for display
shear wall
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glass curtain wall
more comfortable seats
service counter
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large storage cabnets
bookshelve \ cabnet
art works
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parapet as seats
light stream case
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stairs, hight change
small windows/ openings
solid wall
double layer glass wall
08 - MASS ORCHESTRA
WIDTH STUDY 90
250 300
cafe / office
200
museum theater/ auditorium
150
exhibition room (double sides)
120
exhibition room (single side)
110
stairs, ramp, escalator
blcony
corridor
stairs, ramp, escalator
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Entrance lobby Museum theater Sculpture exhibition room WC Museum cafe Painting exhibition room Storage / mechanical Office
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double-layered tempered glass panel
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laminated structural toughened & heatsoaked glass, d=40cm
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roof gutters SRC structural wall
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2F PLAN
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3F PLAN
5M
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5M
double-layer tempered glass panel gate hinge & motor
uplifting folded door, glass panel+ stainless steel frame Low-E 8mm+8mm laminated, tempered glass panel, in 200cm* 100cm module stainless fixtures and bolts fixed 20mm structural glass panel
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