YANG TZU HSIEN portfolio
A collection of understanding 1
CONTENT 01. From landscape to Portrait Situating Hospitality, Udaipur
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02. Climb in the city
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03. Wandering mode - Free Admission
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04. Reverse House
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05. Craft / Furniture
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Ramp and Camp
Graduation thesis
Construction / 2018 ADA selection
a. Under summer b. TYLC-Bench
This collection of projects includes my journey in understanding architecture and myself, mess but real.
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 464 km² / 196,024 km²
Taichung, Taiwan 2214 km² / 36,197 km²
Bratislava, Slovakia 367 km² / 49,035 km²
Dallas, Texas 999 km² / 696,241 km²
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01 From landscape to Portrait Situating Hospitality, Udaipur Individual project & study Area | 15000 m²
The program is to design a residential campus for hospitality tÂhat showcases hospitality and its management while serving the needs of students, teachers and stuff. A project that sutures the fragmentation of natural environment while enhancing the commercial needs of a city. The site program allots 50 % of the area for an ecosystem consisting of wetlands, grasslands, orchards and forested areas. The program seeks to use parts of these areas for farming to serve the own food need 35% area is allotted for outdoor space which include sports facilities and recreational facilities. 15 % of the area is allotted for educational and residential facilities.
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Rowing boat Library / workshop Demo Kitchen
Kitchen Accommodation Farm / Orchard
Sky garden
Auditorium Class room - step class Forest Reception / Admin
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The site is 15.000 sq.m of land besides the Govardhan Sagar lake in the city of Udaipur that is major tourist destination and has generated a host of hospitality services.
Different interactions of three main focus programs. Rest - residential facility Learning - class, workshop, demo kitchen Outreach - startup, stores
Monsoon Palace Sajjan Garh
FATEH SAGAR Lake
SWAROOP SAGAR Lake
RANG SAGAR Lake
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Railway Station
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COMMON SPACE - SKY DOUBLE OCCUPANCY - Residential FAMILY ACCOMMODATION TOILET BATH ROOM LAUNDRY SKY GARDEN Library WORKSHOP OPEN WORKSHOP INFORMATION OFFICE WORKSHOP
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DOUBLE OCCUPACY The campus shall provide spaces that are highly specific in usage as well as spaces could be used adaptively as per circumstance, tithing an environment that is dynamic with various activities concurrently in progress and where it is possible for the students, teacher and stuff to perform and learn the dignified COMMONSPACE SPACE--SKY SKY COMMON ways that- SKY define the hospitality COMMON SPACE industry.
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1. MAIN ENTRANCE 2. SECURITY - WAITING AREA 3. RECEPTION 4. ENTRANCE PLAZA 5. STUFF OFFICES 6. ADMIN 7. AUDITORIUM 8. STEP CLASS - 80 Students 9. CLASS - 20 Students 10. CLASS - 40 Students 11. STUDENT’S and COMMUNITY’S ENTRANCE 12. STUDENT PLAZA 13. RESTAURANT 14. KITCHEN 15. DEMO KITCHEN 16. DELIVERY AREA 17. BASKETBALL COURT 18. TENNIS COURT 19. SOUTH GATE 20. WHARF 21. FARM and ORCHARD 22. FOREST 23. UNDERGROUND PARKING ENTRANCE 24. PUBLIC PLAZA 25. PARKING 26. ROWING BOAT 27. PUBLIC FOREST 28. Cafe’ BAR 29. FACULTY OFFICE 30. OPEN DINING AREA 31. DINING AREA 32. FACULTY CABINS 33. HOUSE KEEPING LAB 34. START-UP OFFICE 35. STORES
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“When you are standing on a flat, nothing happens. There is no brain activity. On the oblique, you have feelings; you feel a force when climbing and euphoria during the descent.� Claude Parent
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02 Climb in the city Ramp and Camp Individual project & study Area | 6400 m² The aim of this project is to create a space in front of the existing building and use different degrees of ramp to link the surrounding neighborhood. The design is to connect some of the sidewalk in front of existing buildings and aid different objects as accessories of existing building; by using ramps with different degree of slopes to bridge them.
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Is it possible to create a mountain climbing process in the city? When one climbs the mountain, one can feel nature. But we rarely question what exists in front of us. When you use the body to climb, you look forward to seeing the mountain scenery on reaching the top. For me, leisure is a period of blank time that comes after concentrating on the task at hand. This ‘blank time’ is out of context; out of our routine; like the breeze on the peak; like a view of the endless land. These can be felt only when you arrive at the peak. In the city, the roofs of the buildings are similar to the top of the mountain, but they belong to individuals and are physically disconnected. During the kite festival, in Ahmedabad, we climb higher and higher with our kites wishing them to fly further away. People only look at the sky; in this moment all of the terraces seem to connect together to become one –the individuals share space with the public.
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sky camping
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"The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself." - Walter Benjamin -
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03 Wandering Mode Free Admission Individual project & BA Thesis Area | 3200 m² This project is divided into two parts. In the beginning, I was trying to solve the living problem for waste pickers. I made a mobile shelter so that they could have a temporary dwelling. The second part is rethinking the contemporary public space. Thinking about how to create a public space where can be adapted to everyone including waste pickers.
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Introduction In a prosperous city, waste pickers today can be found easily. They provide an unusual contrast to the busy people. For waste pickers, everything is no arrangement. They wander on the streets and roads, and they look around the trash nearby. Different than salaried people, waste pickers don't have a certain direction, such as an aimless vagabond. This phenomenon creates great contrast which was made me pay attention on them inadvertently. After working with a number of waste pickers, they made me truly explore the city and see it in this perspective: “One could understand society by understanding the waste material.� This project is divided into two parts. In the beginning, I was trying to solve the living problem for waste pickers. I made a mobile shelter so that they could have a temporary dwelling. The second part is re-thinking the contemporary public space. Thinking about how to create a public space where can be adapted to everyone including waste pickers.
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"I misunderstood that most of waste pickers in the urban city are badly off."
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"I am old. As long as I am able to walk, I will work."
Waste pickers at risk In Feng Chia University Night
Market, Taichung, Taiwan, there are many waste pickers walking on the street. They picked waste materials until early morning. In the next day, they walk to the recycle center to sell the waste materials they picked the night. Wa s t e p i c k e r s c o n t r i b u t e t o development of environmental sanitation, while they also bring a series of social problems for city administration. For instance, they occupy the road to tidy up the waste materials causing accidents to happen frequently. Some waste pickers struck by vehicle; therefore,
Variation of trolley 11:15 pm
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11:28 pm / FCU night market. Taichung. Taiwan (This story is ture, but this photo is made)
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Trolley The trolley is an essential accessory for waste pickers. They do everything with this trolley, such as eating, sleeping and working, etc. The container of trolley should be large enough to carry all the trash. I spent six months walking closely with different waste pickers, meeting them and talking to them. The waste material they pick on the street all look alike, yet the trolley looks various: different styles, different sizes and different ways of combination. In the course of time and specific situation, trolleys were composed to the last but would only be modified depend in using demand. The trolley transforms to the unique form. Every model of trolley is represented a different waste picker.
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Different types of trolley 1. purchasing from hardware 2. getting from hypermarkets 3. handmade with wood material 4. pushchair 7. 5. handmade with iron tube 6. purchasing from hardware 7. donated by iron factory 8. handmade with iron net
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Detachable trolley
Since about half of the waste picker population does not have a specific residence, they wander in the city as their home. Trolley is all they own.
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Mobile Shelter Urban city
Gathering trolley + Repose place This is a shelter that can move in the city. It also can be a mobile studio that helps a waste picker to tidy up the waste materials on the street. They could find a temporarily location, such as under-highway, a house back alley, or side of railroad and set up their shelters. Moreover, the shelter has a basic trolley that can be detach from the device (mobile
Mobile Shelters walk to the
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Mobile shelter - house to go 4m x 4m square was become a preset plan for this design. It can be easy to move on the road when people need to replace the location, and it also provides a sufficient living area. The major for the first floor is a recycling studio; the private space was placed at the upper floor.
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Re - Thinking "Desires are making cities to have autism."
I don't know whether or not focusing on waste pickers can improve their truly life. Architecture is not individual service; it is a public service for everyone. Each person has the right to feel free in any public space. Nowadays, hierarchical society causes people competing to each other. As cities become more developed, public spaces are becoming commercial. Built a building often imply a symbol of wealthy. Therefore, the capital cities are full of skyscrapers. People climb higher in order to watch the pattern of city where they are living. It is a transition from desire to authority because people want to approach a higher class of living. The bourgeoisie has not disappeared, it has merely changed form. I am thinking about that building into the ground is another way to balance hierarchy. A desired hole that everyone can see clearly. A hole for whole society.
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For the waste pickers, although they can't earn enough wage for life, but the biggest contradiction is they have lost confidence in gregariousness.
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City Hole - from sky into the ground I spent most of my time in understanding the whole society in which I worked. After working with a number of waste pickers, they made me truly explore the city and the true purpose for architecture. What is a great public space? This project does not have a set program. All the events on the street has become the parameter of design. The purpose for the building is to serve the entire society. I, liked a waste picker, started wandering the streets. I gathered something I wanted, just like a tramp sitting on the roadside, and watched the people hurrying to and fro. Everywhere could be your observation. During the wandering time, I was given a deep impression. The society provides a clue to what is successful public space in the city. Streets in Taiwan have the potential to re-think the basic purpose of public space. Great public space should not pick users. It's suitable to everyone.
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Feng Chia University night market - model of public space The traditional street in Taiwan is ambiguous, especially the domain of Feng Chia University night market. Massive tourists visit here every day. FCU night market has been referred to the essential shopping attraction in Taiwan. On the weekend, the heavy traffic has become a serious problem in this area. The street is occupied by the vendors to do business. It is also filled with vehicles and tourists. I witnessed the extraordinary spectacle every day, but I have never felt uncomfortable. I was fascinated to figure out the inner contradiction
The Street is similar to the theater. The only difference is the street displays reality without Post-oduction.
Common street in Taiwan / street of Feng Chia University night market
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Look for Real / trash and events
“One could understand society by understanding the waste material.� I had analyzed the waste materials in order to infer the evidence of activities. Different from waste picker, I am an event picker. I walked on the street and recorded everything I see. In my opinion, architect is similar to the waste picker, the city is a recycling center, and architect tidy up the events and reorganize them.
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breakfast vendors vendor light mobile vendors display clothes stand clothes on sale goods tralley couple under the light transformer box billboards cart eating at the roadside dating at the roadside waste pickers trash trolley trash can temporary garbage bag outdoor plants tramp sitting on the sidewalk parking lot warning goods-stand attached to the pole vendors between the house food vendor trash car deliver river under the parking lot scooter parking lot stores signboards spotlight wreath of funeral signboard surrounded facade vendors encroach on arcade vendors encroach on street adversiting signboards tree around the parking pick up garbage store sign pedestrian sign vendors on the arcade taxi pole waiting for the bus tidy the trash on the street throwing trash under the pole public rest area taxi driver waiting for passengers the rest seat over the river the public restroom over the river
User / Mode The street is made for public-use so that different groups can occupy the same place at different times of the day. Therefore, some new spaces appear with modification when the user is doing specific activity on the street. The street has been transferred to another program. Six programs have created six modes on one cyclical day, but the modification can be like it never existed. In other words, even if the street was used by different groups, it could seem like it had never been occupied. These events are temporary. The space would be reverted to normal street after using, restored to the empty street. A - adding
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Wandering Mode This change has become a way to transform the space, different groups have different manner when using the street. I sorted out six different groups. All of them rely on the street to do activities. I tried to simplify these activities for understanding the relation of user and space. These modes are created by six storyboards. Below the diagrams, each of them occurs between a period time and a
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Waste pickers created an additional space near the street boundary. The street was begun to expand. If the street skin could be ripped and pulled, the vertical street is a possibility in the building.
When the vendor was doing business on the street, it had been eroded into some extra spaces. Can you image this is occurred under the ground? In this mode, I am thinking about placing waste pickers working studio under the street. It's a space under the ground, such
If a row of taxis were parked roadside, it will definitely cause traffic jam. Fast and exclusive passageway is n e c e s s a r y. T h e s e r v i c e passageway cannot disappear in the public space. I have created a service connection between space and space. Users can make effectual 66
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When the truck open the back door, the space of cargo could be seen clearly. Folder is when someone makes some physical movement, extra space will appear. Cave hotel is what I image. It is important people care private and public space in the hotel. If people open the door to a hotel room, it
Ramp implies a sustainable situation. It keeps someone in movement. Not only can the ramp produce continuous connection, but also the ramp provide accessible environment in the public space.
Direction made people understand where they are supposed to go. But shoppers' locations are unpredictable. The general building was held up with strong columns in the commercial area. It is easy to confuse the direction. In this case, I try to make slanted
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Parking timer Skateboard players
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Tourists Mobile vendors Delivery
Students Taxi driver Breakfast vendors Elderly
Community Center for the Performing Sky deck
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Spatial Distribution Community center for the performing Live house / Street view deck Street ramp (vendors ramp)
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The new face for the building When massive media appear in front of one's eyes, more and more people were forced to read the message, and the reality will be replaced. People would rather to believe these repeated messages, and not to find out the truth. Likewise, if exterior wall became the best advertising, we probably forgot the certain face of building before. Buildings have had a new facade, and the interior of a building also had new style. For instance, the window becomes a superfluous accessory. Indoor and outdoor began to blurred.
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This is an unfinished design, the process of research made me realize two realities. One is body, another is society.
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Between the mountain Construction /2016 summer
In Taiwan, Metal Corrugate Wall Sheet is a normal material that is used in rural. It is also used in the mountain regions where it is difficult to reach, due to the adjustable qualities of the wall sheet it can be used to build quickly. We were given an assignment to renew the existing building in remote mountain region. The original building structure was made by steel. We were thinking about how to preserve the integrity of the natural land and basic structure as much as possible.
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The house was sited at remote mountain in the Xinshe Township, Taichung, Located in the hillside. There is a small trail that extends to the valley below. In 10 minutes, you can reached tributaries of Dajia River. Unfortunately, it has been contaminated.
Metal corrugate wall sheet
The building was to respond to the site’s topography, aspect and environment. The entrance site is on higher ground, with a gentle slope leading down to a flat field with various native trees. A house of two stories is located in front of field. The plan is to follow the hillside slope, so we created a new entry ramp to connect the building. Different than the normal two-storeyed house, we shift the space program between lower-level and upper-level.
site plan
The second storey is the primary shared communal space, and it includes the living area and kitchen. The central has been placed a stair down to the ground floor. The lower-level plan is a simple living room, divided into three distinct volumes, master suite, tea room, and bathing pool.
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The one spatial constraint was to be able to ascend from the entrance topography to upper-level.
Regular two-floor building
Connect building
Shift the space program
private space communal space living area
entry ramp
kitchen master suite tea room
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1. Master bedroom 2. Lobby 3. Tea room / Guest room (tatami) 4. Bathroom 5. Shower / Bathing pool
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Upper - level plan Entrance 1. Living room 2. Kitchen 3. Teriyaki / Bar 4. Dining 5. Bathroom 6. Balcony 7.
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Each project requires new and challenging methods for building, and each one must have great client support. Building into the mountain always brings negative criticism. We currently have no way to construct buildings without damaging the environment. Decreasing the interference is what we struggle to do. People can't stop building; but at least we maintain passion a n d r e sp e c t to experience the environment until find the suitable way with nature.
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tradition craft design / shell-flower study workshop and research 2018 summer
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Furniture design / Ash wood and rattan pattern
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