Taipei Condenser

Giving People Time And Opportunity To Think

Award : Second Prize

Team : Yi-Hsien Tseng, Yi-Feng Liou

Instructor : Yeh-Sen Su

Site : Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 2023 Spring political ideology the coexistence of ideology personal ideology social condenser all in one taipei condenser one in all

The urban fabric of Taipei is heavily shape by public transport, the transient movement of points and dots has shaped the form of life of Taipei's citizens, and we have begun to focus on individual culture, mainly at the expense of the total participation of the city's public space, breaking the original city into more private space.

It has caused the fission of the Taipei city, sense of city isolation becomes more and more intense, the frequency of people participate in public community activities has also decrease accordingly, distributed community will never interact with others. As time goes by, people have lost the connection between individuals and groups under the influence of the metropolitan.

In the OMA book Content, a social condenser is described as a "Programmatic layering upon vacant terrain to encourage dynamic coexistence of activities and to generate through their interference, unprecedented events."

The social condenser creates overlapping points between individuals and groups to encourage coexistence and collisions of activities, resulting in unprecedented events. This leads to a society that values collective consciousness more.

However, in Taipei, we believe that it is more important to use these overlapping events to help individuals obtain a better understanding of their position in the city through interaction with other groups.