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A NEW FORM OF KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTER Spaces of transaction in Tainan’s city centre

Architectural Association Housing and Urbanism Programme + NCKU Architecture & Planning + NCTU GIA

A NEW FORM OF KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTER SPACES OF TRANSACTION IN TAINAN´S CITY CENTRE International Intensive Urban Workshop in Tainan.

27 June to 6 July 2011 Architectural Association Graduate School Housing & Urbanism Programme, National Cheng-Kung University Departments of Architecture and of Urban Planning, National Chiao-Tung University Graduate Institute of Architecture, with the collaboration and support of Tainan City Government.

Tutors: Hugo Hinsley and Horng-Chang Hsieh

Students: Zcho-Yee Lee Jou-Heng Yeh Ting-Wei Chu (Alley) Hung-Yi Lai Yong-hang Chiu Sky Tseng Claire Huang Sunkist Yang Courtney Erwin Husna Ahmed Julia Malysheva Marianela Castro De La Borda Olivia Fontanetti Philipp Stumhofer Yaniv Lenman

AMBITION The ambition of the proposal is to develop a new form of urban quarter and create spaces of transaction for a knowledge based economy city. A project based in a morphological and typological approach evolving the urban fabric and considering the adaptability of the buildings to create a logic that can setup a developing framework.

MOBILITY ORGANISATIOM

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Proposing spatial Guidelines based on two key themes – Not a fixed Masterplan.

Kings place, London, precedent The working space as a dynamic space where the building offers a social infrastructure. Co-development of spaces for business and orchestra, with permeable public space at street level. Hierarchy of spaces enables multiple uses of spaces during day, evenings and weekends.

One North, Singapore, precedent The buildings work as clusters of mixed use, and the voids perform as spaces of transaction

One North, Singapore, precedent Porosity of buildings and unbuilt space

Regional scale Taiwan western belt of science parks

Tainan Science Park

Southern Taiwan Science Park

Tainan’s is highly linked to a sequence of science parks

Regional scale Part of the ‘Golden Triangle’. Our area is at a strategic position located at the centre of a knowledge-based economy region.

The Knowledge Cluster of Mission Bay, precedent Learning from a legacy of mono-functionality, with no urban crossovers. But it could be redeveloped to have crossovers with the financial district which is nearby.

The Knowledge Cluster of Mission Bay, precedent Emergence of new kind of knowledge environment, but the building clusters are mono-functional buildings surrounded by parking.

Tainan´s proximity to technological/science parks, universities and reserch companies, together with the highspeed rail, can be used to engage it’s city centre in the knowledge based economy.

Tainan is connected at the regional and national scale by various means of transportation.

How can we create new possibilities of exchange and collaboration between the university, the city government, technological parks and other private investors?

URBAN CONDITIONS

URBAN CONDITIONS The underground railway project creates a new area 8 kilometers long, but our intervention is focused in the area close to the university, the current rail station and the city centre because the possibilities of exchange and collaboration can start here.

SPATIAL INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT COLLABORATION For the creation of a highly innovative area it is essential to generate stimulating spatial conditions. But to have a successful proposal in the centre of Tainan it is necessary to consider the involvement of three major urban actors.

GOVERNMENT Local, regional and national

UNIVERSITY

COMPANIES

Teaching, research & development

Multi-National Corporations as well as Small & Medium Enterprises

KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTERS

KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTER Learning from Bloombsbury and Fitrzrovia in central London, where technology, knowledge and research can exchange, and where the urban fabric performs as social infrastructure.

URBAN CHALLENGE 1: Developing social infrastructure to attract and retain talented people The creation of a spatial development able to support the exchanges and collaborations between different urban actors. This spatial development will consider new kinds of urban workspaces as a social infrastructure that will enable the attraction and retention of talented people to the city centre.

Suzhou Compound

URBAN CHALLENGE 2: use of the Tabula Rasa The underground railway project opens up a new strip in the city centre confronting us with the particularity of a Tabula Rasa project.

The second urban challenge of this proposal is to reconnect the current area of the railway to the city centre and the university, and also to take this opportunity to reorganize the Mobility System in the city.

MOBILITY SYSTEM

MOBILITY SYSTEM Tainan City Centre has an urban condition of a primary movement system with major roads, and with vibrant commercial activity at the ground floor level.

MOBILITY SYSTEM: Primary and Secondary Movement System

MOBILITY SYSTEM: Mobility and Congestion

MOBILITY SYSTEM In our study area different problems related to the mobility system can be identified.

New proposed Intercity Bus station

Different Section

MOBILITY SYSTEM In order to improve the mobility system we need to reorganise the surface traffic and develop a connection with the underground railway system.

1. No connectivity

2. Low connectivity

3. Medium connectivity

4.High connectivity

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces of transaction

Spatial Organization SPATIAL ORGANISATION based -on of city Tainan fabric city centre

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SPATIAL ORGANISATION Learning from Hafen City Legal and spatial framework.

Setting up typological and morphological guidelines.

Phase 1: smaller buildings, adaptable.

Phase 2: small and medium buildings.

Phase 3: HQ office building must also provide housing and public spaces.

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Tabula rasa as opportunity and challenge

SPATIAL ORGANISATION block size of the site in the existing city fabric

SPATIAL ORGANISATION adjusting the large site to 3 urban blocks

Spatial Organizational pattern of the unbuilt space and activation of the voids

Spatial Organizational key spaces for transaction

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Spatial organisation of the built space and permeability

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces around the train station

Learning from Osmose Project, Paris. New concept for underground stations.

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces connecting the campus and city centre

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Connecting the Campus and city centre

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Key spaces connecting the park, the campus and the medical cluster

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Connecting the park, the campus and the medical cluster

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Connecting the park, the campus and the medical cluster

SPATIAL ORGANISATION Phasing strategy

MOBILITY SYSTEM + SPATIAL ORGANISATION Guidelines for developing an urban fabric to form a Knowledge Based Quarter in Tainan City centre