NCKU Main Campuses

Grounding the Future 04

Re-infrastructuring National Cheng Kung University

Site/ Tainan City, Taiwan (2019)

Don-NingCampus

Instructor/ Yu-Hsiang Hung (ashousean@thu.edu.tw / (+886)4-2359-0121-38100-214)

Selection/ 《Typological urbanism: from academia design experimental field to praxis of campus gene repository》,Yu-Hsiang Hung (published, 2020)

Future Ground and University Pedagogy Reprogramming

Ground as circulation zone: the same accessibility to all pedestrians, students and community.

Ground as education zone: the mediator between departments by inserting contrast programs.

Ground as green zone: the second GL to avoid vehicle and connecting open green spaces.

Typological conflicts & transformation

From Harvard Yard to NCKU: The Potential of Campus "Ground"

To sum up, Harvard Yard is a self-contextualized place that acts as an interface of the campus ground and unexpected knowledge cross-exchanges . That is the advantage of the continual ground, and the disadvantage of NCKU, a campus split by vehicles and roadways. Therefore, I proposed a cross-campus continual ground network, which functions as general education and pedestrian zone, to solve the current traffic problem and create more crossdisciplinary education spaces, naming it "Future Ground".

New Design Matrices (Selected )

City Green Gate 05

Redefine city gate with a 1km sequences of public spaces

Site/ Hsinchu City, Taiwan (2021~2023)

Role/ Project Architect, Construction Supervisor

Contribution/ SD & DD & CD Documentation, Construction Supervision

Supervisor/ Sheng-Yuan Huang(Principal), Huang-Shie-Yao Liu(CEO), Chih-Chung Yang(Construction Manager)

Award/ Honorable Mention, Taiwan Landscape Design Award (planning phase)

Tear down the walls to see green forests

The City Green Gate project, in which I did most of the design and was responsible for on-site construction supervision , aims to reorganize disarrayed surroundings and recover the urban environment with an ecological landscape and simple structures. Intersections between institutes, campuses, and the city become a welcoming landscape with undulating hills, flood detention areas, and public plazas.

Constructions with respect for Local Ecology and Collective Memory

As the project architect and construction supervisor of the City Green Gate project, I am fully in charge of on-site design adjustments. The roots of old trees, hidden pipes, site topography, and even pieces of advice from university faculties and students can result in changes in design. Despite the complex and repetitive fieldwork, I get to have a chance to fix the design decision I made with more familiarity with the site. As the pictures show, I was describing the design of the public toilet within the Long Distance Bus Station, to the Municipal Secretary of Hsinchu City Government. It was my first time to work on-site, despite taking the pressure, I enjoyed the beauty of making decisions and understanding the thoughts of different groups

Overall Water Permeability

Material and Tectonic System: New Interpretations of Locality

During the construction phase, we tend to merge the existing and the newly implanted material, to create a rather familiar and timeless atmosphere. The layout sorts materials with parameters such as "height", "water permeability", and "nostalgia", to compare the initial attempts of the design and the outcome. While creating a public welcoming urban space, it is more exciting to create a sense of "familiar unfamiliarity" by making the unseen be seen, which is what I have been striving for, the new interpretations of the locality.

toward the NTHU Libary

[Section B&C] Reconnect the once-enclosed university to urban environment

The intersection between the NTHU campus and the city used to be a 500-motor parking area, a 200-bike parking area, a post office, and the campus's north gateway. Through series of negotiation, the university agreed to move these facilities to the inner parts of the campus. Since then, the physical boundary of land property had gradually vanished. This vital junction suddenly becomes a public welcoming landscape with undulating hills and plazas. Most important of all, none of the 143 old trees within the site is sacrificed

The Big Lawn

[Section A] Campus gate as a vital and historical urban node of the city

The campus gate of National Tsing Hua University was designed by the prestigious Taiwanese sculptor Ying-Fung Yang in 1977 and once had an elegant look and scholarly temperament. But in recent years, motors and shrubs divided the plaza area into several segments which were hard to pass by. By reorganizing the campus gate surroundings and recycling certain existing materials, citizens can walk freely and safely again, the bustling city also enjoys a delightful forest view. Most important of all, the citizens, students, and faculties regain their historical pride.

Tear down the walls to see bustling cityscapes, penetrating sunlights, and green forests...

[Section B] Bus station as both the meeting and anchoring point of the once-fragmented urban space

After the deconstruction of campus walls and the land grading process, the road was widened 1.5m and the once fragmented environment was integrated into a continual public spatial sequence. The undulating grass hills prevent floods on severe rainy days and create tranquility within the bustling city. The skyline also resembles

[Section B] Reconnect the once-enclosed university to the urban environment

After the relocation of the post office and parking area, the new intersection between campus and the city consists of a public plaza, an undulating grass hill, and the Boulevard of Campus Life which connects the night market, multiple public facilities, and ends at the NTHU Library.

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[Section C] An absolute horizontal skyline that unveils a serious of public space

The long-distance bus station sits aside the campus plaza, creating a continual public spatial sequence. As the road gets wider, motor riders on Guang-fu Road have safer driving space. The bus station canopy is about 4.2m high and gets higher with the road sloping, and its elegant, absolute horizontal skyline corresponds to the university's rational style and slightly sloping site topography. The bamboo raw concrete also reminds people of Hsinchu City's ancient defensive landscape.

bamboo raw concrete cement + mortar finish with cement paint steel plate th=8mm cement and mortar finish stainless steel frame th=1.5mm tempered glass th=6mm cement and mortar finish cement + mortar finish with cement paint bamboo raw concrete concrete with cement finish drain

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1:50 Unit Study Model/ finding the fusing form

Towards a Walkable City: The City Green Gate as regional engine

The project was granted by Central Government, and executed by the Hsinchu City Government (HCG) with the collaboration of several land management units, such as the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and the Professional Training Center of Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

By connecting urban nodes with existing water or public campuses, the network for roaming citizens and migrating animals may spread outward to the once-abandoned areas, the college town, the residential area on the east side of the National Highway, and the fields nearby Touquian River.

Roaming Network

Potential Walkway (Tangible)

Potential Walkway (Marking)

Potential Green Space Public Campus Water

Green Space Water Route Hospital / Institute