20221013 Portfolio

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Twinmotion, Enscape

Hill Light Festival

City of Tommorow Design Competition

by HsinChu City Culture

New Object(新物件)Design Workshop

Directed by Jin Liu and Shingo Masuda)

Choice

Akihisa Hirata(平田晃久) Model Making Workshop

Chien Architects and Associates(竹間聯合建築師事務所)

making)

Archtangent Architecture(餘弦建築師事務所) Design Internship

making)

Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten(清水建築工坊)Summer

(Curation)

KRIS YAO | ARTECH (大元建築工場)

Drawing)

internship

In Taiwan, the streets take on a chaotic but culturally rich phenomenon Expansionism is fully presented visually and spatially, and various elements seem to grow from the volume. Most of the residential areas in the city are disordered, showing a more organic state than commercial areas, industrial areas, etc. Due to the vast population and scarce land, The architectural space is over-segmented, and some necessary spatial elements of residential buildings are often transformed or extrapolated, such as balconies. People unbridled outwards and took over space. But these protruding spaces often occupy narrow lane spaces, making narrow lanes more of a semi-organic and thin crack. This design will try to deconstruct these Taiwanese space elements and digest them into a set of experimental spaces that respond to functional needs.

The first step in this design approach is to identify the structural parts of the building built by residents, usually con structed of light steel frames. It also includes exposed electromechanical equipment due to no space for placement in the original building. After my observations, I have concluded a few of the most common ones.

Water Tank

Tin roof cap

Advertising billboard

Air Conditioner

Anti-theft fence for windows

The protruding anti-theft fence extends outward to occupy the extra space outside the volume. It can also be used as a drying room.

The outdoor unit of the air conditioner is placed randomly on the outer wall in the form of suspension, which not only shatters the integrity of the building facade but also has safety concerns.

Metal Fence Tin roof cap

The tight metal fence shows the exclusion and self-limitation of public space.

Illegal tin attic stamping is often seen to expand living space. Aside from its randomness and spoiling aesthetics, it creates an insulating air troposphere.

Advertising billboardWater Tank

Usually placed on roofs, occasionally appearing on strange and random building platforms, which are dangerous and give the building an extremely cluttered look.

Various prominent billboards are randomly fixed on the outer wall of the building, forming a static competition among the shops. There is a possibility of falling when a typhoon comes.

Anti-theft fence for windows Air Conditioner

The base I chose was the neighbourhood where I lived during college. The house I rented is an apartment in an old residential area where the gaps between the houses are only two meters wide. Fire escapes between buildings are occupied by protruding security windows, making it impossible to walk through. The back alley of the apartment was closed off, creating a dead end. The pathways are full of scooters, some transformer boxes, and outdoor air conditioners suspended from the facade. The road ahead is only wide enough for one vehicle to pass.

The general situation of the base can be observed from the exact and top views of the "crack" of the base, and such a cul-de-sac is also representative of the texture of Taiwan's residential areas. Changing this status quo is also the purpose and motivation of the design.

From the base photos, we can understand the space formed by the "crack" between the buildings. My design is to integrate the protrusions to create a complete space construction. Simultaneously, I put the missing space function into the space and filled the "crack", forming a complete building and restoring the complete building facade.

1. The first floor is an open entrance, which is connected to the external street, and the clothes drying space and the outdoor air-conditioning unit are separated from the left and right.

2. Use the vertical characteristics of the "crack" space to build a corridor-style rest space. Since the design contains two different buildings, the corridor is divided into left and right sides with the planting in the middle, and the side close to the building is the clothes drying space. In the middle is the rest corridor, and the facade adds light to the glass curtain and shows the texture of the "crack". At the back is a spiral staircase that leads to the top floor.

3. The top-floor garden provides a more spacious rest space, uses the grille to increase the lighting, and shows the texture of the light structure. The interior room on the top floor houses a café and a bar. The electromechanical equipment is placed in a partitioned space so that it is not exposed to the outside, ensuring a clean façade.

Rest Corridor

to the street

Spiral Staircase

Roof Garden

Roofto cafe and bar

Taiwan is located at the junction of the Eurasian continental plate and the Philippine Sea plate. Due to the collision of the two plates, the crust was squeezed and lifted to form Taiwan Island. Therefore, 70% of Taiwan's area is mountainous, and Taiwan is located in the subtropical region. The climate is warm and humid, so the mountains are surrounded by clouds all year round. According to the characteristics of Taiwan's climate, I will try to design a system that can collect water in the mountains to reduce the consumption of a lot of resources to erect water pipes to transport water. This system collects water from all over the mountain and supplies it to nearby buildings.

The base is located in the open space next to a rest station on Hehuan Mountain. This rest station is located at a critical relay station on the summit of the mountain. Many tourists will rest here before reaching the summit. The base is 3011 meters above sea level, where the humidity is extremely high, and it is located on a windward slope, with strong winds and highly thick fog. Therefore, the ways to obtain water resources in this environment include fog and rain. The design concept is to collect fog water and rainwater into the water tower and then provide the stored water resources to the rest station opposite the base, providing stable water resources for tourists using it.

Base Location

Base Location

Referance System-

Wrap flashing down into the gutter

1

1 2Water proofing membrane

1/100 slope Wood Slab

40*80mm CLT

VCL Membrane

5mm Plywood board

100mm Mineral Insulation

12.5mm Plywood board

Suspended ceiling

Finishing Wood tiles

20mm Wood flooring

40mm EPS Insulation

12.5mm Plywood board

40*120mm CLT

VCL Membrane

10mm Plywood board

100mm Mineral Insulation

15mm Moisture Resistant MDF

50mm Solid Wood Board

Water proofing membrane

Dampproofing

Continuous metal gutter

The metal gutter will connect with a pipe to send the rain water down to the central water tank

Continuous metal gutter

2

Dampproofing

This design is an experiment for another rainwater harvesting system. The base is chosen on a hillside, so a multi-unit layout can be used to expand the rainwater collection area. The units are built along the direction of the rainwater discharge on the slope, and each unit can collect rain water. In conjunction with the setting of the catch net, all rainwater is directed into the water pipe. In this system setting, rainwater will be introduced into the lowest water storage tank along the slope direction and reused after being filtered and purified.

T he base is located in the mountainous area of Taipei City, which is a volcanic group, so hot spring water flows through it. The design function is a hot spring bath house. After rainwater recycling and filtration, the purified water is used for bathing before and after the hot spring. There is an abandoned build ing on the original site of the base, and after demolition, there is a large flat land as a parking space. There are dense trees on the slopes, and the slopes are covered by fog all year round. It provides a hidden bathing environment and sufficient water resources. In front of the base is a six-meter-wide road.

Location

Abandoned building (will be demolished) Hillside

A-A’Section

F rom the floor plan, we can see the wooden house units' distribution and the hillside's direction. After entering the parking space from the road and parking the car, the boardwalk leads to each unit to enjoy the hot spring soup house.

F rom the façade section, it can be seen that the collected water will flow from the upper part to the lowest storage tank for reuse. The elevation difference of the hillside is about 10 meters, and the speed of water confluence to the lowest point is very fast, so more water can be collected. The distribution of wooden house units is from the highest point to the lowest point on the slope, allowing users to choose freely. Each cabin has a different view. The wooden plank road connects different units, and you can also experience the refreshing atmosphere in the woods when walking on the wooden plank road.

Continuious

Seeing strip

Land fog net

Water pipe

Burma Teak floor

5mm Plywood board 40*80mm CLT

VCL membrane

50mm Mineral Insulation

Plywood board 100*200mm CLT

3 Water froofing membrane

12.5 Plywood board 100*200mm CLT

15mm Plywood board Spruce wood stripe ceiling

Vertical wood siding

5mm Plywood board

CLT

VCL membrane

5mm Plywood board

proofing membrane

M odel of the hot spring house units arrangement

A design method to recreate a new enviornment friendly to elderly

In Taiwan, the problem of population aging has always been a significant issue. Taiwan has the lowest birth rate in the world, and more and more elderly are unsupported. Therefore, more and more elderly communities have appeared in Taiwan. Re-use means to re-use discarded items and recreate new value. Re urban means to use the re-created value to redistribute resources and provide better care for the elderly community at the urban level.

Units for medical

Elderly

units for elderly Park Area

Shop Unit

Vend the product and use the income to support the function of the retirement unit

From four aspects: food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Reproduce recyclable products in various fields and send them to stores for sale, operate in the form of tourism factories, create tourism value, and apply the economic value brought to the care of the elderly

cloth recycle

Frabic(bag

Eating

Plastic tableware recycle

Plastic art work

Old wood furniture recycle

Wood-made daily necessities

cup etc.)

Transportation

Old bicycle recycle

Metal-made furniture

The site is located in the community behind Jiantan MRT Station in Shilin District, Taipei City, adjacent to the Keelung River. The base is the old channel of the Keelung River. The old river channel has become a long-shaped park after the project of cutting and straightening it. The community population is mostly elderly, and most of them are vulnerable people with lower incomes. However, the base lacks sufficient medical care resources and life functions. Therefore, striving for the resources of the elderly and providing a better living environment has become an important task. A problem that the community desperately needs to solve. The four base analysis charts on this page analyze the base's building distribution, green space distribution, living functions, and traffic. Combined with the composi tion of the community population, find out the resources that the community most needs to provide, and add these functions and services to the design to provide more abundant resources and solve the current problems of the community.

Volume

Void

Transportation

bending and straightening

Keelung

current photos of the base show that this area was originally an old tin house market. The relation ship between the site and the adjacent houses is very cramped. The motorcycles parked randomly on the road made the road width look very narrow, leaving only about two meters of passable width. This market is a center for nearby residents to buy and even socialize. There is a long park in front of the market.

Patio Terrace

Terrace Patio

The design idea is to use the stacking and retreat of the volume to create more courtyard space. Due to the limitation of the base space, the space must be created by stacking. Since the space function is mainly used by the elderly, more courtyards and outdoor space can create a more comfortable space experience. What is shown in the picture is the outdoor space created by the rectangular volume after the retreat of part of the space, including the space of the terrace and the patio. Therefore, the elderly can enjoy outdoor leisure without leaving the space on the current floor.

sightseeing corridor

In the stacking operation, the upper and lower staggered layers are used to create a platform space. The floor space on the lower floor becomes the platform space on the upper floor. The projection diagram in the figure shows that the projection space created by the staggered operation of the upper and lower floors allows the upper platform space to be better utilized, and also creates more platform space for leisure activities.

The arrangement of green spaces and parks is essential for the elderly. The design turns the road in front of the site into a green space and connects the green space on the site. The buildings are set back and green. The passage on the first floor of the base runs through the entire building, allowing users to walk from the park in front of the base to the riverside green space at the rear of the base without encountering obstacles, providing a more convenient and complete spatial experience.

Market

Green Area Water

The base was originally a market space, which separated the front and rear green spaces. The plan design connects the long park in front and the riverside green space at the back on the base, allowing users to walk directly from the park to the riverside green space at the back through the base, creating a complete spatial continuity.

3F plan

Living Room Dining Room

Kitchen

4F plan

Sightseeing Corridor Hall Living Area

The first and second floors are mainly used as tourist factories and medical spaces. The staggered space units provide a smoother moving line and a complete production process for viewing products. Tourists can enter the store in this unit to buy when the products attract them. The sightseeing corridor is designed with a curtain wall, which provides better lighting and allows passers-by to more easily see the process of the factory operation, thereby attracting more people to visit and driving the flow of people. The medical space on the second floor has straight lifts and elevator access, providing more immediate care for the seniors living on the upper floor.

Wearing Factory Eating Factory Living Factory Transportation Factory

Taiwan is located in the subtropical zone, with hot summer temperatures and intense solar radiation. Heat has always been a significant danger for the elderly. The diagram below illustrates a solar radiation analysis and an outdoor comfort analysis of the building and its surrounding areas to determine whether to add shelter or enhance cooling to specific building areas.

Solar Radiation Analisis

Location: Taipei,Taiwan

Month: September

Outdoor Comfort Analisis

Location: Taipei,Taiwan

Month: July

By adding bus stops around the base, it is easier for the elderly to pass between the community and the MRT station. The newly set bus stop route covers the community more completely, making it easir for the elderly in the community to travel.

The original bus route

The new bus route

Taiwan is full of mountains and rivers. Taipei City alone has many large rivers (Damshui River, Keelung River, etc.). The riverside has many green strip, planned as the riverside park; it acts as a buffer, limiting floodwaters within the levees and mitigating the threat to the river. However, the riverside park still plays an extraordinary role in shaping the urban texture. This design will try to highlight the characteristics of the riverside and strengthen the possibility of riverside design.

The Riverside Park of Taipei

The Keelung River connects the entire metropolitan

Embankment

Riverside Greenbelt

Riverside Park area near Dazi Bridge River Wall of Keelung River

Low nighttime light pollution in urban areas -Create a space where people can enjoy activities that require low nighttime light

The gap of the city

-To seperate the city and create a continuously green area

Educational Institution and public Utilities

The vast green space has created a rich ecology. -It is a rare education and research base for cities. At the same time, some urban functions can be transferred here to ease the crowded population conditions of the city.

Path River Wall

Shape the land

Create a river-like landscape to fit the river's context better while also controlling the traffic line if river overflow happens. People can evacuate quickly as possible.

Put the rock-shape volume

Best place to observe the night sky in the city

The vast hinterland at the riverside creates a clear space to keep from light pollution. Further more, no nearby building makes a more precise view, allowing researchers to collect com plete data. Though the scope of the observation and the environment is still not comparable to the observation station on the mountain, the observatory combines shopping malls and accommodation spaces to provide a more friendly atmosphere and space for observers. In addition, the base is close to educational institutions, which can give good educational opportunities, allowing students to conduct field observation education more conveniently.

Shape the river-like land

Observation Hall Observation Hall

line of sight

line of sight

Void near water gates

River courseRiverside parkCity Riverside park City

There are two buildings in the design plan. The larger building is mainly designed for tourists who want to experience the starry sky. It includes a theme shopping center, exhibition space, audio-visual room, and accommodation space for experience classes and some researchers. The most special is the stargazing hall on the top floor of the building so that visitors can still enjoy the vast universe comfortably indoors at night.

The second building is located farther away from the entrance. It is mainly designed for researchers and observers and combines teaching functions. There is also a more professional stargazing room on the top floor, equipped with profes sional telescopes, allowing researchers and educators to work in an undisturbed environment.

Education and research Observactory hall for researchers

Hallway on rooftop

Observactory Hall for guests

Exhibition center Hotel for observers

Shopping center

Stellar observatory

Above the research room is a glass house, in which there is a professional stargazing room. Researchers can discuss in the glass house and observe in the stargazing chamber.

Room for researchers

A panoramic skylight above the room is specially set up for researchers, allowing observers to conduct long-term observations and research in a more comfortable space.

Stargazing room

The star-gazing room for professional research is equipped with professional astronomical telescopes. It will be able to record the starry sky and celestial phenomena of Taipei City in various seasons more accurately. And the data can be directly transmitted to the lower laboratory for scientific research and

Observactory hall for guests

The observation hall is constructed of a huge glass cover, and the space extends from the third floor to the roof, allowing visitors to directly enter the observation hall from the room through the guests' hall to watch the starry sky, providing a more convenient and comfortable observation space.

The space stimulates the senses to make people recall their childhood memories. To raise the feeling of excitement, fear, happiness, or confusion. Create a device that is like a maze to confuse the sense of direction. Using curiosity to make people eager to go in and confusing them with the maze-like device. When people are searching for an exit, but they can’t. The sense of panic will show up and eventually end up traping in a confusing space. But it will leave a deep impression. The shape of the drawing is transformed into the architecture plan. The model also shows the path connects to the outside of thecampus.

Cooperate with Apartment of Fine Art. To build a device that can interact with people through the sensor. When people stand on to the device, the device can sense the pressure and send a signal to let the light on. The device is also shown at the 2018 Taipei Treasure Hill Light Festival.

Final Work

Making process