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PORTFOLIO DIJIE CHEN

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APICAL DOMINANCE

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URBAN ACUPUNCTURE

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FIELD COMMUNE

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HEALING THE PAIN

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REFLECT [?]

re-envision of commercial spaces reflection on spatial imbalance in shopping malls

adaptive reuse and urban renewal reflection on the fashion industry and its effect on urban spaces

rural research and development extensive research and bold planning

a hot spring resort composite material and geographical research

Thesis WIP reflection on capitalistic invasion of urban development

01 re-envision of commercial spaces APICAL DOMINANCE

instructor: Walker Huang

Individual Work 2021/03 - 2021/08

In modern shopping mall architecture, there are discrepancies of commercial and social values between different floors. The inflated price of properties on ground floor and the low foot traffic on higher levels resemble the unreasonable division of commercial space. This project aims to soften the discrepancies through programmatic arrangement and spatial intervention, and to create distinct commercial and social values for each floor.

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Part 1. Modern Shopping (Mall) History of China

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Part 2. Spatial Analysis and Re-envision

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Part 3. Reimagined Shopping Mall

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Part 3. Reimagined Shopping Mall

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02 adaptive reuse and urban renewal

URBAN ACUPUNCTURE

Site: Wufenpu Shopping District, Taipei, Taiwan Instructor: Guanhua Lin Individual Work 2020/09 - 2021/01

The huge production of fast fashion is causing environmental pollutions, while the marketplace for clothing is also consuming the liveliness of cities. This project aims to create a more friendly urban environment and to insert a more sustainable and innovative retail system in the marketplace, by recycling and redesigning clothes.

Part 1. Sustainable Fashion

Part 2. Analysis on Site: Wufenpu Shopping District

hospice uncultivated

clothing resettlement

clothing import

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Part 3. Reimagine

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Part 3. Reimagine

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03 rural development

FIELD COMMUNE

Instructor: Shiyan Jiang Group Research & Individual Design Work 2021/02 - 2021/08

Changhua County in Taiwan is facing challenges from brain drain and aging population due to passive production. As an important national granary, the land there is lifeless. The agricultural lands are slowly covered by factories.

This project aims to understand the complicated ecological and economical system Changhua, and propose possibilities. The design aims to establish correct understanding of farmland, and to create a more sustainable farm-centered life style, through introducing educational facilities.

Part 1. Group Research on Changhua’s History

*Credit to Chen Dijie, Hsu Pingtung, Chu pinyen, Chang Yuhsien

The original Choushui River crosses Changhua and divides it into two. Due to the terrain of the south, it is often flooded, the downstream of the waterway changes indefinitely, and the accumulation of sand dunes is serious. The difference between the north and the south of Changhua County deepened.

With the arrival of Han people, agricultural technology was popularized. The Babao canal built in 1719 improved the water conservancy system in the north of Changhua. A lot of land has been reclaimed. The growing Han forces made the original Pingpu community transfer land rights and forced to flee to the south. Due to the increased frequency of flooding in the south, the living space of aborigines has been compressed.

The flood situation in the lower reaches of the Zhuoshui river has not been controlled for a long time. Many floods have displaced people in nanchanghua. During the period of Japanese rule, considering the economic benefits of land, the Japanese government began to build revetments and planted windbreaks along the coast in 1921, which finally ended the fate of being controlled by water, making the lower reaches of Choushui River the only route at the southernmost end of Changhua.

After the establishment of Taiwan’s first hydropower station in choushuixi, the squeezing of water resources has just begun.

After the Kuomintang government took over, it vigorously developed industry. Emerging industrial parks and nuclear power plants compete and squeeze water sources.

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Part 2a. Group Research on Zhuanghua’s Current Situations

*Credit to Chen Dijie, Hsu Pingtung, Chu pinyen, Chang Yuhsien

Industry Distribution

Ecological Destruction

Road Network

Industrial Zone Factory Food Transportation Machinery Plastic Textile Medal

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Part 2b. Group Research on Zhuanghua’s Current Situations

*Credit to Chen Dijie, Hsu Pingtung, Chu pinyen, Chang Yuhsien

Economic Structure

Agricultural Distribution

Pollution Status

Temple Sugar Factory Common Residence Immigrant Residence Public Property

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Part 3. Collective Growth through Edcaution Original Village Function

Program Analysis and Design in 2 years

in 5 years

in 10 years

Growth Timeline study

individual actvities

A Storyline First, new residential areas and accompanying processing plants appear near the original village. As the number increased, warehouses and enterprises appeared, and finally intersected with the part developed by another village.

Finally, over time, the village is connected by new buildings growing along its activity track. Roads appear according to the needs of activities to ensure effectiveness. Buildings with various functions grow along the road to form a texture as shown in the left figure. The connections generated by activities have consolidated and further rationalized cooperatives for greater efficiency. Villages will continue to evolve along this logic.

storage

community connectivity production

location-specific map

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Part 4a. A Manifesto -- Specific Application Final Masterplan

Timeline Road

Industry

Enterprise

Roads connect the path of urban sprawl.

New residential areas grow along roads, accompanied by processing places.

Enterprises and schools appear in the connected central stores, act as a "hub" and become a new community center. The original land is redistributed according to the soil conditions, and mixed farming is tried out from the school campus. Over time, the land output per unit area increases, and more space is released to become buildings.

Urbanization will be carried out according to such rules.

Residence

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Part 4b. A Manifesto -- Specific Application Envision Collage

Street Evolvement

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HEALING THE PAIN a hot spring resort

Site: Yangjia Hospital, Wuyi County, Zhejiang, China Instructor: Lydia Xynogala Individual Work 2021/07 - 2021/11

This project starts with a series of composite material experiments. The composite components then have different conversations with water and in different scales. These components with descriptive meanings then are put to the site, and interact with the specific memories of Yangjia Hospital.

Part 1. Composite Components Situations for Water

Situations for Bodies static pain

The cotton began to shrink and more voids appeared as the water spread along the cotton.

Use the balloon as a mold to make an arc space, and then pierce the balloon.

comfort Water has different flow directions according to different injection positions.

dynamic fast

The spatial relationship between concrete and metal mesh varies with the rise of water surface.

The rough texture of concrete becomes blurred and softened with the rise of water surface.

slow The mesh texture starts to bubble on the surface due to contact with water, as if it were breathing.

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Part 2. Composite Experience A Detour of Discomfort

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comfort

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Part 3. Site: Yangjia Hospital for patients with pneumoconiosis @ Wuyi, Zhejiang, China service room

research institute

Fluorite Mine first discovered in Wuyi

Historical Context

1921

residential home

farm field

service room Mine Cave

hospital

Yangjia #0 Mine first mine exploited byJapanese troop

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Dongfeng Fluorite Mining Company Established

Yangjia Hospital Open for Dongfeng workers who got pneumoconiosis

Dongfeng Company went bankrupt

height of fluorite mining

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hot spring re-discovered

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Old Patients living in the hospital as a hospice

Wuyi County branded as a Tourist Destination

2006 NOW

residential home

farm field

courtyard

Mine Cave Ruin

operation room office

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Part 4. Yangjia Hot Spring Resort

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05 Thesis WIP

REFLECTION[?]

Site: Taipei City Wall Instructor: Zhiwei Xu & Chaomin Chen Individual Work 2021/09 - NOW

Part 1. Abstract

Once upon a time, cities were made up of walls. The outer wall surrounds the inner wall. There is a world in every wall. People inside the wall copy the scene that can be seen outside the wall, in an attempt to create a miniature world of their own, and reproduce the contained desire outside the wall here. So the "courtyard" appeared.

Later, two kinds of buildings entered the wall. The first visitors immediately began the terrible breeding. Machines aimed at production break down the wall in people's hearts, gather people together and breed the next generation of machines in order to continue to reproduce. A higher wall was born, blocking all eyes to the outside world.

The second wave of buildings did not spread like a virus.

New forms are born randomly in cities. Their walls are just for decoration, or they don't have walls. Foreign buildings welcome all passers-by. Their personality has become a capital to show off and show off. People use architecture to swear their personality.

They are capital.

It is in this world that we live.

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Part 1. Abstract

Consumption behavior presents different forms in space.

Shops try their best to show themselves in windows because of the homogenized space behind them, so they are gradually defined by the surface. Shops are gradually planarized.

Various signboards show decoration.

Skyscrapers cover their internal crazy behavior with intimate glass. While showing off themselves, they also refuse to respond to the context.

The process of architectural development is recorded by the city, and several dividing lines are formed in the city. Each layer represents a collective memory: kindness - show off - arrogance

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Axis

Block

Part 2. Taipei - A Dissection

Driven by desire, cities are stratified into different faces. The place where the city was born, the boundary of the city wall, where these phenomena juxtapose. At the beginning, it was a traditional courtyard life The emergence of power institutions has brought new axes. The city wall defines the field of rights, while the square enhances its majesty. The city sprawled out of its walls. The grid provides the basic unit of desire replication, and the tower accommodates desire most efficiently.

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Part 2. Taipei - A Dissection

Modern cities imagined by those in power. The original condensed desire is scattered everywhere, and the tower grows madly around it.

The construction of shopping malls condensed the desires of the East and the west, and once became the most prosperous area in Taipei.

The city walls were demolished. The systematic planning covers the wasteland, and the outside of the city has become a symbol of entertainment and leisure. Consumer behavior is prevalent outside the city.

With the arrival of the Japanese, the demand for entertainment spread out of the city wall, and the original swamp and purpose became the leisure and entertainment area of the Japanese during the Japanese rule.

The first life was framed within the city wall.

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