Fu Wei-Che Works 2008-2014 by Kevin Fu

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THU Dept. of Architecture | 2012 Graduation Thesis

THU Graduate School of Architecture | 2013 Design Studio

THU Dept. of Architecture | 2010 Core Studio

Teamwork | 2014 Competition

OBLIQUESCAPE

Graduation Thesis | Taipei, Taiwan | 2012 Advisor. Ming-Wei Huang

Shortlisted & Exhibited. International Exhibition of 2012 Architecture Graduation Design Shortlisted. Young Talent Architectural Design Award

Body, is the topic of discussion in my graduation thesis project. A body could sit comfortably in a corner, but could also use spaces

rediﬁning

diﬀerent

them.

ways,

While

therefore

the

urban

environment brings so much convenience

today, people barely need to move their

bodies. The cocooned body became the center of inertia and passivation.

[ PROSTHETIC ] Assistance

To help the disabled body, which has the same function.

Phenomenon

To meet people’ s need of quickness and eﬀectiveness.

Le Corbusier once said that the house is a machine to live in, in whose words

architecture could also be understood as prosthetic;

people

who

lost

their

subjectivity are controlled, disciplined

within this prosthetic. Horizontal ﬂoor slabs are good at saving our eﬀort of

standing, which had been (re)produced

Body moves.

Bazaar

Body moved.

Train

Subway

Escalator

Airplane

D& F

that attempted to overcome nature. Paul 1960s, which evoked gravity’s eﬀect on

Car

Supermarket

massively, is another artiﬁcial prosthetic Virilio proposed Oblique Function back in

Carriage

bodies: One needs to stay on a tilted

Take consumption for example,

move down.

If the architecture today is p

surface with extra force, or he will start to

OBLIQUESCAPE

buildings, its manufacture process w

space“healthier”,making sight the

can it help us to retrieve the

The contrast between artiﬁcial lines and nature lines. TV

Computer

Highspeed Rail

Internet

Telephone

Smart Phone

Department Store

Paul Virilio’ s sketches of Oblique Function.

[ OBLIQUE ]

Slope (%)

Function

8.33 10

15 16

Ramps

Wheelchair Ramps

&G FEN PRA DI D GUC A LV CI

12.5

Oblique Function

Stairs for children

which had moved into

was wiped out to make the

e only sense that matters.

prosthetic-like, perception?

69.2 70

Stairs in public spaces

83.3 85

Stairs in rooms over 200m²

100

Other stairs

INTRODUCING THE OBLIQUE FUNCTION INTO THE PROJECT

OBLIQUESCAPE

[ NISHI HOGANJI ] This placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s charactor had

been denying the subjectivity of bodies since Japanese colonial period, so I chose here to make the statement...

HOSTEL ABOVE EXISTING TREE HALL AND NEW LANDSCAPE

By being oblique, I think architecture could play a more active role, establishing an

explore-and-adapt relationship between

Obliquescape includes a hostel, a mall and

a park. The hostel is placed above Tree Hall,

it and bodies.

m 6.8

4.2 m

hence redeďŹ ning the Hall as the service

ďŹ&#x201A;oor; the mall is placed underground, 2m

keeping a relatively complete park. Hostel

units are consisted of oblique ďŹ&#x201A;oors; travelers could regain awareness of their

bodies while moving in it. The unit itself is an inhabitable circulation, and its roof

becomes public corridor as units are assembled.

35%

The landscape extends from the base of

the ancient temple, separating the lower

commercial space from the upper park surface. People can shuttle both of them

through the gaps, consume and exercise at the same time, while more approaches to this historical site are created.

20%

Public

Private

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(slope)

Each unit contains a continuous circulation

UNIT PLAN 1 scale: 1/75

UNIT SECTION A scale: 1/75

UNIT SECTION B scale: 1/75 UNIT PLAN 2 scale: 1/75

G E N E R AT I N G H O ST E L U N I TS

Continuous ramps replacing vertical circulation

Unit

Collection of units forms an explorable public space

OBLIQUESCAPE

HOSTEL PLAN 1 scale: 1/300

2 1

HOSTEL PLAN 2 scale: 1/300

HOSTEL SECTION scale: 1/150

OBLIQUESCAPE

E X P LO R A B L E P U B L I C S PA C E I N T H E H O ST E L

2 3

OBLIQUESCAPE

B1F

Section 1

1. Hoganji Podium 2. Gallery

3. Hostel Lobby 4. Café

SECTION 1 scale: 1/300

ENTERING OBLIQUESCAPE: GROUND FLOOR PLAN AND SECTION

5. Dressing Room 6. Clothing Store 7. Gymnasium

B1F PLAN scale: 1/600

Roof

Floo

Spor

tion

ump

Cons

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Continu multi-app

Section 2

uous ramps create proaches to the site

SECTION 2 scale: 1/300

G O I N G B E N E AT H T H E R A M P S F R O M T H E G A P

OBLIQUESCAPE

UNDERGROUND: VIEWING OUTSIDE BETWEEN THE RAMPS

METAPHORIA

A Taichung Game: Reinterpreting A City | Taichung, Taiwan | 2013 Advisors. Rohan Shivkumar, Chih-Feng Su

The project starts with a board game. On the right is the game board of the game GANJ, which dates back to the Mughal Empire

North

India.

Players

are

supposed to move anti-clockwise toward

the center. On the bottom right are the numbers

game

board

and

their

correspondences. In the game, with every roll of dice, one should collect every

element as part of his/her story, and later

blend them into a way that he/she interprets the idea of city.

Finally, the ďŹ ve elements that I get are

tablet.

sher (tiger), magic, mosque, garden and

METAPHORIA

Figure

ELEMENT

Ta o i s m G o d

Primitive Religion

White Tiger

Imagination

B r a v e r y

Incatation

D a n g e r

Parapsychology

H u n t e d

I l l u s i o n

Worship/Feared

U n k n o w n

Contradiction

S y m b o l

S u r v i v a l

S c i e n c e

Mythology

M o n o l i t h

I d e n t i t y

P r a y e r

Cenotaph

Worldview

Milestone

Recreation

A n t i - i d o l

Boundar y

Preser vation

P o l i t i c a l

Meaning-given

Projection

S a c r e d

Domestication

U n i t a r y

S y m b o l

Consumption

Controversial

D i r e c t Associates

Pictures

Further Interprets

FIVE ELEMENTS AND THE INTERPRETS

The key question in this project is,“How

was the world that we know created?” With that in mind, I go through several

Ex t r a c t

researches, and the outcome is a twofold: We extract raw materials from nature, and then turn them into products; on the other

hand, we abstract meanings from nature,

which later become symbols, especially

written words. Put the previous two formulas together, it’s the culture we get.

N a t u r e

Though they’re intertwined, but if we look closer

the

latter,

the

argument

“everything that we acknowledge is a

Abstract

construct of words”appears.

Then I make an analogy between the words and the prisons, since they both use

deﬁnitions (meanings/guilt) to distinguish certain

objects/people

from

bigger

group that they belong to, which may be

[ C R I M E

called nature/society. This is not merely a

linear process; it circulates within itself, establishing a complete loop system. Words are prisons in the end.

Before the Japanese colonial

period, prisons were more like detention centers, and the

plan ﬁgure was just like the Chinese word of crime.

METAPHORIA

E ]

M a t e r i a l s typography letters stamp words language sound

paper, metal, wood, ink

Classify & Control

Produce magazine books newspaper articles paragraph sentence

Reform /

Discipline

C u l t u r e

- interpreting nature

S y m b o l s -imitating nature

Arrange

Budokan Building

Taichung Prison

Dormitories

Part of Taichung City, 1945

F R O M N A T U R E T O C U LT U R E

With this key analogy, it leads to the old Taichung Prison as the site. Built in 1899, it was considered a symbol of modern and

advance back then. Since the prison moved away in 1992, its trace nearly disappears, as the north-south axis been taken over by new grid system (45°). The

site had been long fragmented, serving as several parking lots right now. Metaphoria contains

both

institutional

axes,

recovering

north-south

axis

the

ground/underground, while shifting the upper ﬂoors to the current grids axis.

The programs are all settled around words and paper; hence the books could be regarded as users, too. Their destination is either

preserved

the

dungeon-like archive underground, or to disappear in the incineration tower on the

top

ﬂoor.

Between

these

two

abstractions of words, extractions (paper recycling, paper making, printing�) lie in the middle, which could be a new tourist spot for citizens.

METAPHORIA

STUDY MODELS

1945 + 2013: From North-South to 45째 Axis

METAPHORIA

Incineration Tower

Paper-making Workshop Printing Studio

Charactors Forging

Paper Recycling Factory Vertical Circulation

Paper Recycle (1st)

L i b r a r y

S Y M B O L I C E X T R A C T I O N M A T E R I A L E X T R A C T I O N

Structure and Elevator Paper Recycle Stations

E X T R A C T I O N