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Urbanisation in Asia The future living experience of human well be highly centralised and influence by the urban architecture, there is a obvious trend especially in Asia fast developing cities that the increase of population and race against modernisation have resulted huge increase in urban inhabitant. As government focus their development in major city to cope with the influx of people from neighbouring area, many crucial issues have been ignored in favour of economical development. In Taipei, the perspective of modernisation is combination of westernisation and urbanisation; constant friction between local culture and authoritarian dominant is displayed on the street.
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Trade - Traditional, Modern, Virtual The public trading system has evolved in focus of efficency and conveniency, these improvement are bought by digital technology and machinary. Yet these innovation neglect culutre, local identity, personal needs and social interaction. The intergration and innovation of architecture is minimal; it only focus on providing shlter for protection from weather and maximise space efficency. The experience of shopping and trade is becoming a futile task, a human innovation is needed to energise the social perception of trade.
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The Taiwanese arcade system is intergrated within most buidling situated at the main road, this semi-private space is first invented to provide shelter from sun, rain, public passage and personal parking space. When the house owner decide to set up business at the aracde or rent out the space for third party trader, the boundary between the public and the private becomes blur, as the threshold tend to fluxtiate to accomodate the number of customer.
Case Study - Relocation of Shilin Night Market and local trade The recent relocation of one of the most popular night market, Shilin Night Market, is a clear example of urban planning that ignore local community infavor of international architecture. The night market is relocated to an underground space and the original space is given for the devlopement of Taipei Performing Art Center, designed by OMA. One may argue the interaction and activity display in the night market is the best local performance for any audience to observe and experience. This arises the issue of community choice against government decition, and the question of land ownership for the public space.
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Night Market Activites - A Spontaneous Space The night market is a spontaneous space where unexpected activites occurs and unique service is provided. A scoial phenomanen that happens without an appointed authority and any pre-planning. Originally, trader set up around temple as it used to be a highly visited place, in the morning it’s a simple fresh food market, slowly the public becomes accustomed to the trading space, the market becomes more permanent. Vendor decide to continue trade in the evening by setting up other shopping goods, cooked food and entertainment to attract other customer.
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Low dencity planning and affordable land price, plenty of public area. Easy set up of night market at open space and indidvidual trade, however difficult to attract large number of customer as public transport is limited.
High density planning, land price is high. Space becomes limited. Only selected area is possible for night market, often situated within narrow street. Relocation of unoffical market to make way for commercial developement and urban transit.
Future proposal Urban network develope vertically to allow more public street and public area that is less effected by the rise of land price and land owenership. Stalls and market is intergrated with the sky train network allow convenient redepolyment at different time based hot spots.
Initial Concept - Intergration of night market with residential By intergrate trade with medium rise residential building will allow local inhabitant to set up business and trade infront of their houshold, further encourage social interaction and community identity. This will encourage the devlopment of vertical night market that is intergrated with the city sky-train, allowing stalls and vendor to transport and redeploy at different hot spots around the city.
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Taipei has a basin topography, with the city sunken within srruounding mountains result a more humid enviorment. This also makes the city colder in winter and hotter in summer incomparison with the rest of Taiwan.
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Taipei city countour The surrounding mountain trap humidity and air circulation. Promote air pollution to build up.
Climate and City Topography Taipei has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate slightly short of a true tropical climate. Summers are very hot, humid, and accompanied by occasional heavy rainstorms and typhoons, while winters are short, mild and generally very foggy due to the northeasterly winds from the vast Siberian High being intensified by the pooling of this cooler air in the Taipei Basin. The Taipei basin topography will naturally effects the humidity and air qulity of the city, as wind circulaiton is influence by the surrounding mountain.
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Air Pollution Taipei city suffers the same problem as many developing countries, air pollution. Air quality is always the highly effected element as city undergo modernisation; the increase of individual own vehicle, highly air condition building and unregulated factory all contribute to the increase of harmful chemical in the atmosphere. By providing a natural ventilated building to maintain comfortable temperature for the inhabitant is important, thus removing the addition of air condition units. To improve the urban life style, air quality, temperature and humidity most be considered
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City Land Use and Streetscape In Taipei, Majority of industrial land is situated on the west side of the city, with many residential and commercial area in the centre. Large open space and park are place along the river bank, with few medium size parks situated within the city. Traveling across the city, one will encounter huge variation of streetscape in terms of atmosphere and spacious quality, that is effected by the street width and height of the surrounding building.
Initial Concept A parasitic proposal, the attachment of structural frame on existing residential building is to provide trading space for stalls to insert into. Imagining a new network of floating market above street level, that allows vendor to freely move around the city and deploy at popular hot spot. The transportation of goods becomes a visual display to attract by-passer and window shopping for the inhabitant. Goods can be lower down to street level for customer wanting a quick buy.
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Tips for bending bamboo: 1. Heat from the thicker end to the thinner end. 2. Apply heat at the outer circumference of the bend. 3. Put sand within the bamboo to allow better heat distribution.
Bamboo as Construction and Cultural Material The renewability and versatility of bamboo make it a convenient material both in construction and cultural term. The idea of heating the bamboo to achieve desirable shape and cooking food has a interesting connection. Since ancient time, bamboo has been used architecturally, as furniture, utilities and toys, it symbolises growth and prosperity in Chinese cultural and has deep root in Chinese art and craft. It has high tensile strength, good fire resistance, low weight and high elasticity, which makes it a good construction material in earth quake area.
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Structural Strategy 1. The structure design takes the advantage of the high tensile and elasticity of bamboo. Two bow shape curves are place outside and inside to work together to resist the outer pushing and pulling force of the wind and the reacting force of the building. The design focus on using each beam and column to its full potential in-order to maximise open space. This layout can be repeated continually across the facade of the building. As bamboo has various diameter and its thickness changes from top to bottom, a 6 meter maximum length for one bamboo will be considered.
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Structural Strategy 2. Initial digital visioning is used to speculate the joint technique between bamboo and the existing concrete building. The connection are designed to accommodate the various thickness of bamboo. Colour coding will be apply for public to understand the structural system. Vivid colours will be chosen to resemble the colour scheme of Taiwanese temple. This structure serves as the foundation for inhabitant to construct further bamboo floor and wall for their needs, additional bamboo can be attached to provide water pipes and electirc wiring.
Deployable Night Market Stall This moveable tall is designed to allow user manipulation to fits its need, large working tables can unfold to serve many customers. Cooking facility, food storage unit, gas supply and ventilation unit can be fitted according to one’s preference. Lighting billboard can open up to attract public. The aim is to incorporate the stall as part of the house; vendors can insert this unit into their building as their kitchen facility and at night it can move out to deploy at night market location.
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Material Testing - Flexing Plywood A series of material testing is done on plywood, by laser cutting the plywood sheet in a very specific way the structural rigidity is altered. The balance between flexibility and strength of the material is effected by the thickness of the sheet and the cutting pattern. One can produce a sheet that bend in a desirable and natural curvature without breaking the material. The testing is to achieve the natural opening of flower petals, in Achi Menges case, it is done by making plywood sheet in the most specific thickness that it becomes so sensitive to the humidity level of the surrounding air.
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Stress point. The increase of surface area outward will result too much stress at this point.
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Structural Frame and Plywood Flower The hexagonal system is formulated as the space frame system, it has the best geometry to attach the plywood flower and it is also capable of creating a curving frame by inserting and angled joint. Most importantly the hexagonal shape can be assembled by just mass manufacturing one rationalise tri joint component. The initial plywood flower break too easily as too little mass is at the stress point, the improved designed resolve the issue by having a better mass distribution.
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The memory wire is made of nickel/titanium (NiTi) alloy. The wire can also be heat treated to remember different shapes. It simply has to be held in the desired shape and then heated to 500째C in a small oven for a few minutes. By attaching the memory wire behind the plywood petal, one can control its deformation by connecting the wire to a electric circuit.
Memory Wire & Plywood Petal Testing The combination of memory wire and flexible plywood allows the artificial petal to bend in the most natural way without much mechanical assistance. To improve the performance, it is best to attach two memory wire of the same memorise shape at one side, as one wire tend to rotate on its own axis when it bends. Once bend, the petal requires few minutes to straighten up as the memory wire needs to cool down. By attaching memory wires at both side of the petal, one can control the closing and opening of the device.
Hylozoic Series, by Philip Beesley
Plywood Flower Two different shapes of flower petal are formulated to completely enclose the redesigned hexagonal frame. As the flower closes up it creates its individual enclosure, this suggest a flexible wall that can curve into a spacious volume, perhaps a small pavilion or even a storage unit. When the flower blossom it establish a threshold, that limits light and air penetration. The over heating up of the memory wire could possibility damage the plywood. By connecting this facade system to simple sensors and computer device (Adruino), this facade will have its own conscious and perform according to its will.
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Additional support by rope or by inserting extra bamboo stick can between the two piece of bamboo can tighten the holding.
Clamping System Bamboo is split in half to increase its flexibility so it tighten around the column. This clamping system allow us to attach the facade system without drilling or damaging the existing structure, it can be removed easily and reassemble at a different site. The bamboo clamp can also be attached to the structure at different angles, this makes the assembling process of the entire installation more convenient as we can freely adjust our facade as we go along.
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