Architecture/ Urban Design/ Landscape Projects
Pei-Chun Wen's Portfolio 1999~2011
Urban Design Projects
Toward making a new kind of boulevard
Urban Adaptor:
National Chung Kung University, Master thesis in Architecture
2006 summer Site location: Tainan, Taiwan Promoter: Ming-Hung, Wang
Hi-Ann Road stretches through the historic area and commercial downtown area of Tainan, and it is also a key section of the boulevard design system.
The traditional boulevard
The five cove historical area on the north side of the boulevard was one of the earliest areas cultivated in Tainan. Here, the four hundred year old commercial street, Bie-Shi street, is well preserved, and remains a traditional market, Shui-Xian temple market, which was also one of the oldest markets. It was not highly developed, but maintains copious peasant life. On the other hand, the Chung-Cheng commercial center on the south end had always been the core commercial district in Tainan since the Japanese period. It leads to the port of Tainan canal, and links up the old cloth market, Sa-Ca-Li-Ba market, where gathers famous snack booths. But recently, Chung-Cheng commercial district was decayed due to the construction of the underground road.
the 3D boulevard
The Double Blue and Green Rings
Bie-Shi street, historical street
Shui-Xian temple market
the five-cove historic area
Tainan canal
Chung-Cheng commercial district
Sa-Ca-Li-Ba market
The Disaster of the Hi-Ann Rd. Underground street Original block
The gables leaft after the construction
1992 before the big dig
During the Japanese occupy period (1895-1945), the Japanese took Tainan as an urban experiment field, where they practice the newly learned Baroque structure. The idea was clever, but the implementation was crude. Since Tainan was an old city with organic contexts, the urban pattern was cut off by this interruption. Thus, Hi-An road was a typical case where two urban planning systems combined into one other, leaving cracks of wounded houses on the two sides of the street. Also, due to the long construction period of the underground street, the image along the street has remained as if time had frozen when the house were just torn down.
1997
constructing the underground street
2005 the deserted street
The Hi-An road case is a typical scenario where superficial policymaking ends in disaster. The road was initially constructed as an underground shopping precinct. Due to the failure in both construction and enrollment of local businesses, construction came to a halt, and the road was closed down for nine years, leaving houses in wounds along its way. Recently, the government reopened the ground level for traffic to pass through, but ignored the eight hundred and sixteen meter underground structure underground. Therefore, public policy topics will be one of my future study interests.
2012
Future visions- as a liner park
the emerald necklace
Waterways
the baroque structure
Located in the central district of Tainan, stretching across our commercial and historical areas, it is a key section of the city's so called "emerald necklaces". The emerald necklaces was first mapped out during the Japanese occupation period, but not been formed until the 1980s. Because the current development ideas were still settled on developing street blocks, it was not completely established, and so that this green corridor had not have a clarified outline. Despite the beautiful vision of this green boulevard, its status in the city was never signified.
Demonstration model
The site reforms its role for the city as it stitches up the urban wound. By reversing the traffic system with the underground shopping distract, the ground level opens up a series of plazas and parks, when the bypassing traffic runs underground. So taking advantage of the deserted infrastructure, it provides an overlapping liner space for recreation, shopping, parking in a whole.
the organic fabric of traditional streets
geometric blocks
combination of different urban contexts
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The Park/ Deserted Landscape Designing with the building borders of the past: designing on the contextual traces of Tainan. The city is dominated by different cultural governments through a quite short period of time, although polity each rise and falls, the traces of the old times could still be intact. By duplicating the so called "sections", the design intends to represent the former district through old remains and new infillings, up and down the underground structure, creating a park travelling through time and space.
The Ruined Sections
1. 2. 3. 4.
1. The ruins 2. Images from the past 3. Commercial fascia 4. Community use
To preserve the deserted structures, a transport screen is mounted before the remains, and the originally peripheral ruins are transformed to facade, allowing all kinds of projections. In the day time, the Hi-an Road is a deserted garden to linger through. But at night, the screens can be used for commercial advertisement, and periodically project images of the original buildings, creating a now-but-past illusion.
Shui-Xian Temple Market Landscape The site was first established during the 1940's, when the Japanese government torn down a part of the street block for air defiance. Afterwards, street vendors gathered and so became a market. Shui-Xian temple market once was one of the most important markets in the city, it was in operation around the clock, but after the Hi-Ann road construction, the market was cut off from the side, thus destructing the historical surrounding made the market no longer capable to support such heavy business activities. But presently, it became a morning market, and still an attraction to the citizens.
Shui-Xian Te mple Market Str ucture Shui-Xian temple market is located in the five cove historic area, where during the Chang dynasty the five canals once ran through the city streets. Though today the canals have been silted up, but the traces of existence still remains. One of the five canals, Fo-Tou canal, ran straight through the market site, and ended in front of the Shui-Xian temple. Therefore, in the picture imitates the image where standing on the trace of Fo-Tou canal, facing the Shui-Xian temple.
Interior structure
The Big Slope The big slope takes advantage of the present structure, creating an overpass bridge crossing over Min-Shen road (a heavy traffic road which leads to An-ping), and also links up the park with the commercial area. Present structure
The path
View from B1
Court of water Court of trees Court of light
Courts
Court of water
Court of trees/ Court of light
The courts are one of the most important elements in the south end of the design. It starts the commercial area with the court of water, and leads the circulation through the underground fairs showing a visual connection between the court of trees and court of light.
Underground Fairs The Hi-Ann road underground street was first planned to be a shopping district, but the commercial vitality was not profuse enough to support the whole 816M. Therefore, in the design, cutting of half the program, the underground fairs are located on the south end of the street, near the Chung-Cheng commercial district. Using flexible partitions, composing with the courts and light, creating a flowing fair of vivid merchandises and small gardens.
Flexible structure
Boutiques on the Street As the commercial virility increases in the south end of the site, the section between You-Ai street and Zheng-Xing street are lined with boutiques stores. Unlike usual shops which usually lies on the sides of a street, the buildings are build on top, connecting the under ground fairs, and making a vertical relation between the road and the stores.
Boutique shops
Underground street
V.s.Urbanization De- Urbanization...
The transformations of a landscape Urbanism in Mumbai EMU KU Leuven2007 spring
Site location: Mumbai, India Adviser : Kelly, Shannon Collaborated work with other 10 people
In a city that has already exceeded its carrying capacity, and which is still receiving one of the world's biggest influxes of population, the studio sought to generate new relations between landscape, infrastructure and urbanization. The working between multiple scales allowed for the discovery of potential sites intervention and where the social needs of the city's inhabitants could be negotiated within the present process of unbalanced development, an inevitable outcome of the booming economy. Water structures the city at all scales. National roads and railways are located in the valleys and structure urbanization. The water system creates a diffused infrastructure network inside the territory. The Mumbai port is the most important international harbor transporting the goods from the hinterlands and with this activity strengthens its connection to Pune. Urbanization develops and spreads along the transport infrastructure and is, most dense in the Island City. To relieve pressure of further densification and diversify the economy, the government is investing in various special economic zones including a large and controversial one which is planned for Navi Mumbai, the new twin city of Mumbai.
Arial view of the mill lands
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
landscape
infrastructure
urbanization
proposal
landscape
infrastructure
de-urbanization
proposal
Salsette Island
Existing situations along the railways... Eastern docklands Mill lands Central railway line
Western railway line Harbor railway line
7island v.s. Present tissue
The urban voids
If trends continue..
The major problems of contemporary Mumbai stem from congestion and pollution due to continuing and unsustainable urbanization. The proposed vision for future urbanization works with the idea of special economic zones, yet relocates them to areas whereby they complement (rather than destroy) landscape and develop the logics of settlement connected to infrastructure. 'Social infrastructure' is developed at a regular rhythm along defunct railyard lines and within post-industrial sites. Social infrastructure is envisioned as the new public realm for the region public investment in housing, public amenities and services all possible with the funds generated after the State releases land into the market.
Proposed... seeing the rail as a spine of the social infrastructure
Existing
If trends continue... The urbanization taking over the wetlands and mountains, causing environmental issues, such as flooding.
Proposed... developing the hinterland to release the conjunction in the island city.
Existing
If trends continue.. Building a highway over the sea.
Proposed... waterways as new infrastructure, and leaving more space for marsh lands
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MELTING
URBAN CORRIDOR
2007 spring Redefining the new landscapes for urban space Site location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Collaborated work with: C.Ag-ukrikul, M.J. Si
proposal area
future expension area
Summer
water side view looking from south towards north
Phasing
Traffic
The capital of Iceland will evolve into a city that melts together the people, their activities and their unique territory. To achieve this we propose to develop a vibrant urban corridor as the centre. It will be a vibrant place where in/outdoor activities are all year round, where one could feel urban life in the city with a unique environment. Stretching from north to south between the Harbour and the Thermal Beach. Water infrastructure as leisure infrastructure Taking the characteristic of Iceland with strong winters and mild summers as well as combining the eothermal uniqueness of the territory, the Winter transformation of liguid from ice to water, from water to water vapour. This water side view looking from south towards north can offer very rich experience of moving from hot springs to ice rivers.
03 cross section through the Urban Corridor showing proposal at begining stage
03 cross section through the Urban Corridor showing proposal at later stage when the area becomes highly urbanized
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Offices covered market
herritage building
02 in door exhibition commercial space
North
cold water
open air exhibition botanical garden passage
Mixed water
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bird sanctuary Reykjavik University
The Urban corridor event area Podium
mix-use residential area
transportation hub
01 summer
02 winter
sea front plaza
Urban corridor It is consist of 2 strips of development running parallel or in some case inter-woven with each other. One is a serries large INDOOR public facilities and the other is a serries of OUTDOOR leisure infrastructure and pavilions.By compressing these 2 strips we create the urban vibrant of the city.
Self-promised Land
A Multistage Strategy for Founding a Living Space
International housing in Catalonia competition. 400,000 homes 2003 winter Site location: Catalonia, Spain Collaborated work with: C. W. Chang
Phrase1: A park for discovering
Understanding the growth as a complex and long-term movement, the project aim to draw a strategy that provides a series of programmatic framework, which can encourages "dwelling" happen naturally and spontaneously. Furthermore, the strategy opens opportunities to people for founding/casting their living space by themselves.
Phrase 2: A creative industry exposition
Phrase1: 2005 A park for discovering
The first step we take is to make the site become an open space, an intriguing park, which can be able to introduce people from anywhere to the site.
Phrase 2: 2007 A creative industry exposition
A creative industrial exposition, which provide most dynamic interface for merchandises exchanging, studio working and people gathering on the site.
Phrase3: Workers housing
Phrase3: 2010 Workers housing
During the exposition, we start to install mixed used building beside exposition halls as artists' and workers' residencies that can accommodate all needs. After the exposition, part of these residencies could turn into studio or office, while others could turn into rental housing to meet the needs of people whoever want to live/work here.
Phrase4: Casting a living scape
Layers and context left by the previous phrases will provid elements of ideal dwellings; proximity to the commercial and working strips, easy access to nature resource, mix-used zoning and mix-density neighborhood. By this project, one can understand growth as a more complex and powerful process than a simple reproduction. This activity-based multistage develop is relatively promising then others since the built environment was promised by itself.
Imagining the future
This strategy just like a function, the result will change in different circumstances.
Agriculture Existing Agriculture
We subdivide the site into several patches by series of parallel lines. Some of them were derived from the urban texture of Salt.
Others, especially transversal ones, were created to arouse more opportunities form nods to nods.
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Tectonics
Expository
Park Park
Park Studio Rental house Apartment Park
In addition, we maintain the previous existing path on the farm to absorb the vernacular texture.
We install a warehouse at the southern place and attracting recreation facilities on each edge of the site.
We site a series of identical, strong, colorful, recognizable element at the nods, where activities often take place.
The framework of the creative industrial exposition follows the moving flow of dispatching and itinerary routes.
Phrase1: A park for discovering
Phrase 2: A creative industry exposition
Sections of the exposition hall and residencies
Open space Recreational facilities Commercial and retail Office studio Rental house/ apartment Dwellings The artists' and workers' residencies were located just beside the framework exposition, all together forming several strips of living, working, exhibiting, and exchanging, etc. With the residencies grow; they absorb the function of exposition Finally, dwellings would automatically be sited between the dynamic strips and the scenic green patches. That means, people can enjoy both convenience of the street and natural beauty of the park.
Phrase3: Workers housing
Plans of the exposition and residencies
The previous procedures are like the mold we made in order to found the living space, and people can modify it though taking parts in these activities.
Phrase4: Casting a living scape
Andries Geersen Stedenbouwkundige, Rotterdam
Het DORP Arnhem Het DORP Arnhem Het DORP Arnhem
Andries Geersen Stedenbouwkundige, Rotterdam Andries Geersen Stedenbouwkundige, Rotterdam
Handicap campus
Handicap campus Handicap campus
2008 ~2009 Site location: Arhem, the Netherlands Team :A. Geeersen, J. Lee
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Parking map
Parking
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Het Dorp-Phase One Plan
Het Dorp-Phase One Plan
Program map
Parking map
Het Dorp-Phase One Plan
Program map
Parking map
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Het dorp is located in Arnhem’s “Green Finger”
Het dorp is located in Arnhem’s “Green Finger”
Landscape Projects
青浦新城國際競賽 - 水鄉新世紀 : 第三名
曲水園 2.0 Urban Pockets
2009 summer Site location: Quinpu, China Team:M.J. Si
Qingpu Qushuiyuan Garden is a traditional Chinese garden, however, it is different from those Chinese urban garden. It is a garden in rural area Vocabulary and Transformation with aesthetic sense of agriculture. This is the character of Qushuiyuan garden, meanwhile, it is Grammar the character of Qingpu. Potted landscape Flower How to design a small city and how to design the central park in the small city? We do not intend to use the banal design tools, which could be found in other generic urban parks. We try to find modern sensibility from the ancient charm. Urban Pockets / Qushuiyuan 2.0, it is the updated version 花 of Qushuiyuan Garden. Corridor
初選第二名，第二階 段評 選中... The three
廊 vocabulary of traditional gardens. Water represents the main elements we used in the design are: water, agriculture field and basic Water Cannel, Pond vernacular landscape character of Qingpu; agriculture field represents the remembrance of vanishing agriculture function; transformation of traditional 2009 summer garden elements showsQuinpu, the respect for the past and the spirit of modern design. Site location: China Adviser :M.J. Si
Urban activities
Productive landscape
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綠 園 。Green Pocket
Guard wall
外牆
Bamboos
水 。water
竹 。bamboo
廊 。coridor
戲 。theater
花 。flower
春 季開 始， 立是 開始的意思，春是 蠢動 ，表 示萬 物開 始有生氣。
立 春 。
Spring
雨生百穀的意思，此時農夫剛完成 春耕，田裡的秧苗正需大量的雨水 滋 潤 ， 適 時 且 足 夠的 雨水 才 能 使 穀 物成長茁壯。
穀 雨 。
Summer
此 時已 屆深 秋， 天氣轉冷，早晚所 接觸 到的 霧氣 和露 水，感覺寒意沁 心。 而草 木將 估萎 。
天氣逐漸和暖，春暖花開，草木開 始萌發茂盛，大地一片氣清景明的 現象。
Fall
寒 露 。
Winter
清 明 。
Lama residence, tourist hotel, landscape design
Namdroling Center
Bodh Gaya, India 2010 summer Site location: Bodh Gaya, India Team :S. Shaio, S.Y. Shyu
Qingpu Qushuiyuan Garden is a traditional Chinese garden, however, it is different from those Chinese urban garden. It is a garden in rural area with aesthetic sense of agriculture. This is the character of Qushuiyuan garden, meanwhile, it is the character of Qingpu. How to design a small city and how to design the central park in the small city? We do not intend to use the banal design tools, which could be found in other generic urban parks. We try to find modern sensibility from the ancient charm. Urban Pockets / Qushuiyuan 2.0, it is the updated version of Qushuiyuan Garden. The three main elements we used in the design are: water, agriculture field and basic vocabulary of traditional gardens. Water represents the vernacular landscape character of Qingpu; agriculture field represents the remembrance of vanishing agriculture function; transformation of traditional garden elements shows the respect for the past and the spirit of modern design.
endless knot
the site under construction (till: 2012 Jan)
Guest House Serira & 8 Stupa Guru Rinpoche Statue Pilgrim Route
Prayers Wheel Foyer Thousand Buddha Temple Drive Way & Parking
Main Gate
Pond
Central axis: towardes the temple
Prayers Flag Poles
Lama’s Residence
Namdroling Center, Bodh Gaya, India
UN-FRAMING THE NATURE
2007 spring Landscapes of Water: EMU Conegliano workshop Site location: Conegliano , Italy
Collaborated work with other 7 people
Extremely dry periods and unexpected floods have demonstrated, by their outcome, the need to incorporate these phenomena in our settlements. After all the very reason for the success of our economies is many times related to the landscapes that sustain them. So is the case of the Veneto region, which owes its agricultural tradition, and its physical dispersion, in a large extent, to the large availability of subsurface water. In this regard, Pra de Gai, perceived as an urban and rural void for its lack of either urbanization or agriculture, presents an opportunity to enlarge the water storage capacity of the Livenza water shed, but at the same time opens the possibility to exploit its singularity by enlarging the biodiversity of the area, currently impoverished by the crop cultivation.
Phase 01
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Phase 03
Under this assumption we have developed a strategy that tries to reverse the urban dynamics of the region by subordinating the urban settlements growth to an ecological order. This un-framing of the nature should be understood, therefore, as a subsequent framing of the urban settlements as peninsulas and islands in relation to the flood plane. The flood plane remains in this scheme as a network of low lands that benefiting from the changing levels of water and the spill off area idea; create an ecological network able to host new and different species.
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Topagraphy
Marsh lands
Daly regime
Once or trice year flooding
10 year flood
17 year flood
Increase capacity with new dike
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Anping Art Village 2004 spring Site location: Tainan, Taiwan Adviser :Yuzhe, Su
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Re-sculpting the historic context Anping, as the first debarkation point for the Han people from China, was one of the most important international seaport during the Great Navigation of 17 century. And the history of Taiwan started right from this area. First set up by the Dutch, the Anping old village had a clear structure, organized blocks with grilled streets, which mainly leads to the Anping fort, although the housing types has been changed through out the years, the horizontal and vertical context remained. After 400 hundred years of depositing, the sea turned in to land. Anping had a new issue: how should the water memories of Anping be recalled? Thus, "National Anping Harbor Historic Park" was established, but still based on the grains of the past. However, by curving the context of the site (leaving the visual traverses open ),it shows a new perspective of the site, which the landscape twists to face the sea.
Trail on water
Slop
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River side dock
Ching dynasty battery
Tree house
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With the curved form of the site, the scenery would change on the way one moves. Different paths could be chosen on the journey through the site, which leads to varied sceneries. It would be difficult to see through the routes, when the land deforms horizontally and vertically, but leaves a chance to explore the fields, and experience the water and land. Traffic system
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Three artiest dwelling types There are three housing types, one is a representation of the old village housing type (type 1) , while the other is a high tower providing different view points (type2), and the last one is as a factory standing on water (type3).
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2end floor 1.artiest dwelling type1 2.artiest dwelling type2 3.artiest dwelling type3 4.cafeteria 5.service office 6.factory 7.Sunday market loon 8.old house reuse library
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Art village The nature of the art village, in my opinion, is more of "a village" than "art". In a form of a street, it provides a gathering for different artists to interact with one another. With big platforms for out-door creation, and factories for heavy machinery.
IN BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE Transformation of the peat polder
EMU 2006 fall TU Delft Site location: Ron de Venen, The Netherlands Adviser: Inge Bobbink
the Chinese garden v.s. The Dutch landscape
: Design by research, research by design
Natural Structure
Geometrical Structure
In-Between
The geometrical landscapes in-between the forces of man and nature
Genius loci of the lowlands What is the genius locus of the Dutch landscape ? In the reading of “the composition of new landscapes� mentioned that the genius loci of the lowlands lie in the continually shifting balance between the nature and the will of man. Therefore, looking in-between the combination of the two forces, could find territories and elements which are exceptions of the geometrical polder structure. These elements, such as ponds or crooked roads, were created by accident, and shapes unique land forms unexpectedly, so preserving them became a starting point. Looking in-between man and nature In this design, looking for exceptions between man and nature, intends to arise the elements, by framing out territories, and giving the area a new world in itself. Creating a spiritual territory that reflects the past which also include a new meaning. Over layering the Chinese garden with the exceptions of the land Starting from framing out exceptional elements, the design is an experiment using Chinese gardens as an assess of transforming the polder. The Chinese garden layout is a reference for creating similar picturesque qualities with lowland elements. And most important, is to arise the phenomenal memory in the fields. Therefore, based on a special prospective, the way how elements are composed together is the most important thing.
the Loci of Lowlands: A continually shifting balance between the forces of nature and the will of man. ~�The composition of new landscapes�, Clemens Steenbergen and Wouter Reh
The exceptional elements in Ron de Venen
Boezem A Water storage≒45％ Area height≒33cm
Boezem B Water storage≒18％ Area height≒83cm
precipitation ca 750㎜/y evaporation ca 550㎜/y Deficit 200mm
Boezem C Water storage≒15％ Area height≒100cm
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summer deficit ca 150㎜ 0.15m suppose: fluctuation 0.45m/ per year space ca 33％ short periods: 88㎜ in 24hours 10％ buildup surface
Summer deficit
PRecipitation
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15cm ≒100％ Area
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30cm ≒ 67％ Area 45cm ≒ 33％ Area
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Rhythm of precipitation, evaporation and percolation
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Original Water System
New Water System
Water management: Appliances The appliances for the area first started with changing the two separated water systems, which runs-off the water in to the rivers of Amsterdam Rijnkanaal and Amstel, into a self-reliant boezem system. And with the different identities of the land, the area applies different patterns of water for development. Also, the N212 route turn a bit to the west connecting to the ring road N202, and leveling the center as a water storage pond with marsh lands.
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Water management:
The new water scape of Ron De Venon
Peat polder
Ponds
Infrastructure
Routes
Housing
Path ways/ vista
The contrast between the inner and outer world The design proposal is also related to the “framing” of lowland elements. Using the exceptions of the land as a starting point for development, the design builds communities in a more concentrated relation, while leaving the fields out side open. Creating a contrast between the in and out of the community, to become small jewels in the landscape. For the future, individual farms are hard to exist, so the agricultural fields of the “outer world” might be united as a bigger farm, and financial affairs from the development could help the maintains for water management. However, with these divisions of field and urbanization, it creates an inner-universe.
Densited community v.s. Open fields
WATER AND ASFULT
What if… the water define
scenarios for the venoto region
The new metropolitan image of “cittá
The scenario: What if… the water define the new metropolitan image of “cittá diffusa”
50km
Need of Water (0.5M deep)
As an element of great experiential power, water throughout the times has been manipulated to shape territories. In the northern hills of the area, the grabble can't contain water, so it forms Existing asphalt a landscape of irrigation, which pipes are easily seen everywhere. But in the downstream plain, the soil is mainly clay, which water isn't permeable, so the intention is to derange. Historically, the Romans constructed the “agerazzio” in the southern part of the plain showing the purpose of solving derange problems, and simultaneously created a new landscape. Therefore, in the Veneto region, the water has a tradition of transforming the fields. But 50km for now, it is not only a task for solving environmental issues, but could also be the instrument of reframing the spatial notion.
Urbanization tendency
50km Ecological structure
What if we see the urban and nature in a whole, and link the new dispersed urbanization with the 7rivers by transforming the waterscapes? First, we give more space for the water. With developments, men takes over natural fields, but now facing the Existing water environmental crises, we must return the space to the rural. So what if we identify different scales of waterlines, to give different degrees of width for water to create a hierarchy?
Spring lines Rivers Flooded area
a.The flooding areas The flood Dispersion of need (0.5M deep)
map in1966
b.Give a new Hierarchy to the water
Second, by interoperating smaller plots of waterscape unite, solving
a.storage and pollution issues locally. Reforming the spatial structure the 7rivers as a skeleton
The new small waterscape is also dispersed in the territory, and linked with the main 7rivers. By creating flood-plains in the hinterland, spreads and equalize flows over a longer period of time to reduce the risk for peak water.
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EMU 2007 fall I.U.A.V. Site location: Veneto, Italy Tutors: Bernardo Secchi, Paola Vigano
50km
Need of Water (0.5M deep)
Dispersion of need (0.5M deep)
b. If the water is 0.5m deep 1.2% the area should be covered by water, to reach the need of water storage
The tendency If the water is 0.5m deep 1.2% the area should be covered by water, In the plainto reach between Mestre, and Padova, due to the climate changes, water issues have arisen. And with the new construction of the need of water Traviso, storage the passante that disturbs the water table, the area has become the crucial zone. On the other hand, urbanization is covering the waterlines, and the ditches are no longer visible. This increase the surface of impermeable land, and causes derange problems which lead to big floods during the peak season. Understanding that 10％of the Veneto region is covered with water, but 12％of the area is covered with asphalt. And for every 10thousand m2 of urbanized area, 500m3 of water storage is needed. Therefore, in the 50km×50km metropolis of Veneto, there is a demand for15millien m3 for water storage. So what if we profit the need of water to create a new image? For now our experience in the area remains on the local road, on the sponge level. These roads are mainly influenced by the water lines, but inside the site, the people are not conscious of the concept of “water structuring the territory”, instead, the elements is so dispersed that people lose their orientation. In the area, the settlements are located in relation of the original agriculture activities, with the fragmented roads and water systems. People inside the area also move in a dispersed way, and there isn't a clear hierarchy of neither spatial elements nor people's activities. Therefore, the hypothesis of the project is to give a hierarchy to the water, seeing the water as a new symbolic element to reconstruct the field.
Photography workshop with Guido Guidi
Site 2.
Town
Lake
Woods
Spine
Site 1.
Alone the “passante�, the new highway crossing over the rivers 7rivers / 4typologies
Site 3.
The “spine” model
By identifying different scales of ditches, formed the water scape of this area.
The “woods” model
This river scape is the extension of “bosco di Mestre”
Site 1.
scape is the extension of “bosco di Mestre”
The
The “lake” model
In this are is a existing low plot which surfers a risk of flooding, therefore transformed in
The “town” model
The town model is located in between two rivers, which has a linear settlement inside.
ying different scales of ditches, formed the water scape of this area.
Site 2.
The “
The town model is located in between two rivers, which has a linear
In this are is a existing low plot which surfers a risk of flooding, therefore transformed into a storage pond.
pine” model
oods” model
Three experimental sites:
The “town” model
The town model is located in between two rivers, which has a linear settlement inside.
Site 3.
The “lake” model
In this are is a existing low plot which surfers a risk of flooding, therefore transformed into a storage pond.
New facilities and developments more related to the rivers
The intervention:
the “ wood ponds ” as a hydraulic machine
Sport fie
Sections of “wood ponds”
The fields can be temporally flooded the peak The water during community season. If the water in the area constructs the metropolitan, then it also shows strength of linking social activities together. The waterscapes become a new center of local communities, so the wood ponds not only function as hydrological machines, but they are parks, gymnasium…etc, which takes Landscape th the role of forming public space. What if… the water define the new metropolitan image of “cittá diffusa”
The intervention:
the “ wood ponds ” as a hydraulic machine
Sections of “wood ponds”
Site C. Daly regine
Sport fields
The fields can be temporally flooded during the peak season.
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Site C. Transformations during peak season
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The intervention: Landscape theater
the “ wood ponds ” as a hydraulic machine
Water parks
The water community If the water in the area constructs the metro then it also shows strength of linking social activities together. The waterscapes becom new center of local communities, so the woo ponds not only function as hydrological mac but they are parks, gymnasium…etc, which the role of forming public space.
What if… the water define the new metropol image of “cittá diffusa”
Pedestrian roads
ENTERing THE TOWN HIDDEN LANDSCAPE OF HOLLAND RELOAD, Design with History-BELVEDERE
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2006 fall Site location: Stelling, the Netherlands Adviser : Eric Luiten
Crossing of STELLING van AMSTERDAM en NIEUWE HOLLANDSCHE WATERLINE
River
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Forts / defense system lied in
The design is based on the invisible landscape of the Stelling around Amsterdam. The water defense system had never been operated, but leaving elements, such as fortes, in the landscape showing the trace of the time. The practice is based on a experiment of water and windmills on a territorial scale, making the historical elements more visible, and understanding the experience from different transportation equipments (tram, car) moving towards the city.
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Transportation between the towns
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Natural lake
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Stelling ven Amsterdam
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New Holland waterline
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Edge of the folding plan/ connections between the towns
Sceneries on the route
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Integrating the yellow butterfly vally with Community and Conservation International workshop in Mainon
2005 summer Site location: Manong, Kaoshung, Taiwan Adviser: Jeff Ho Collaborated work with Verginia Coffman (University of Washington)
Yellow butterflies and Anti Mainon dam movement
Yellow butterflies are the spiritual symbol of Mainon. During June and October, some fifty million yellow butterflies dance around in Euphony of color. But the heritage, Yellow butterfly valley, is presently proposed as the site of the Mainon dam. To unite the community towards the government, it must root from education and interaction with the site. Such programs could be set up easyly by local community service teams, for there remain rich natural resources in the area.
View point 1
Section 1
Two worlds apart, facing environment delicacy and dweller activity area.
Finding a balance between delicate environmental areas and activity areas should be careful. Thus, dividing the site into various sections can buffer the impact on nature. Also, separating the trail system for remote mountains and educational faculties can also reduce the influence.
Section 2
View point 2
Education and activity circle
Trail systems into remote mountains
Education and activity circle plan
Section 1 The area could develop sustainable forest agriculture through the Community Forestry Administration's Pilot Project.
View point 1 River side swimming pool
View point 2 The Community Forestry Administration's Pilot Project
Section 2 On the turn-back point is a environmental swimming pool, providing easier access to the water.