Portfolio 2017

YUN-SHIH CHEN architect + landscape urbanist

selected works 2009 - 2017

curriculum vitae

YUNSHIH CHEN Urbanist + Architect Licensed Architect of Taiwan

EDUCATION

+31 64 58 01308 lune.chen@gmail.com https://issuu.com/ilune246

Postgraduate MSc Urbanism, Delft University of Technology | Delft, the Netherlands

2015-2017

Postgraduate Masters Urbanism, UniversitĂ Iuav di Venezia | Venice, Italy

2016-2017

Master of Architecture Professional Degree, Tunghai University | Taichung, Taiwan

2009-2013

Bachelor of Business Management, National Taiwan University | Taipei, Taiwan

2005-2009

European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism | CGPA 8.61 / 10 | CUM LAUDE European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism | CGPA 8.65 / 10

Master of Architecture | GPA 3.87 / 4 | Students Academic Research Award

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Information Management | GPA 3.71 / 4

EXPERIENCE

ATLANTIS Magazine, Polis, TUDelft | Delft, Netherlands

Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2016

EDITOR & AUTHOR | Magazine editing and article contributing

Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government | Taipei, Taiwan

Jan. - Jun. 2015

URBAN DESIGNER & PLANNER | social housing master plan; urban renewal feasibility study

J. M. Lin Architect / The Observer Design Group | Taipei, Taiwan

Apr. 2013 - Jan.2015

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER | theater design; office design; campus dormitory planning feasibility study; shop drawings and committee documents; team leader with guest architect in international competitions;

J. J. Pan & Partners, Architects and Planners | Taipei, Taiwan

Jul - Sep. 2011

ARCHITECTURE INTERN | concept and architecture design; shop drawing; presentation

Wooyo Design Co., Ltd. | Taipei, Taiwan

Jan.-Feb. 2010 / 2011

NTU Student Counseling Center | Taipei, Taiwan

Sep. 2008 - Apr. 2015

ARCHITECTURE INTERN | interior design and shop drawing; participated in competitions GRAPHIC DESIGNER | brochure and e-paper layout design and illustration

PUBLISH

The Sensitive River Scape, the Sinuous Territory - Transforming Dajia River Basin as a WaterSensitive Landscape Infrastructure

Jun. 2017

Postgraduate Masters Urbanism Diploma Thesis | Delft, the Netherlands Jan.2013

Nature := Slices of Space x Time - Tayuling Tour-Realm Design

M.Arch Diploma Thesis | Taichung, Taiwan

EXTENSIVE ACHIEVEMENT

NTU Chorus Group Competition

2013

2nd Prize | participated in architecture design

Student Academic Research Award

3rd Prize 2013

Tunghai University Academic Performance

LEADERSHIP

LANGUAGE

Guanchi Social Housing Planning

2015

Liget Budapest International Competition

2014

Team leader

REFERENCES

2005

National Taiwan University Chorus

2006-2008

Co-chief / leader of information section

ACADEMIC AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, InDesign, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop, ArcGIS, QGIS, DepthMap, C++ Programming, SketchUP, Vray, Dreamweaver, Flash, Painter, Microstation, MS Office

MANDARIN Native

Taiwan International Science Fair 1st Prize in Computer Science

Team leader with guest architect

SKILLS

2006

NTU Chorus Group Competition

ENGLISH Fluent (TOEFL 104)

NTU Azalea Festival Department Exposition 2006 Leader of Publicity Team

PERSONAL Piano (qualified for teaching), Singing (10-year chorus experience), Violin (Basic), Painting (water color, sketch, Chinese ink-and-wash), Illustration, Web Design, Graphic Design, Swimming.

DUTCH Basic

JAPANESE Basic

FRENCH Basic (level a1)

Han Meyer | Professor of Urban Compositions - Department of Urbanism | TUDelft V.J.Meyer@tudelft.nl | +31 15 27 89805

Steffen Nijhuis | Research Director Landscape Architecture and Associate Professor | TUDelft S.Nijhuis@tudelft.nl | +31 62 12 54126

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KEELUNG PORT IN THE RAIN

watercolor by the author, 2014

contents

PAGE

SCALE

PROJECT

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Km2 1,200+

20

50+

The Spaces of a Changing Society

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10+

Rethinking Havana:

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M2 100,000+

The sensitive riverscape, the sinuous territory

Transforming Dajia River Basin as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure Postgraduate Masters Urbanism Thesis | FEB - JUN 2017 complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/p5_seperate_yunshihchen

The porous spaces transformation in the city of Oderzo Situations scenarios Studio Work | SEP 2016 - FEB 2017 complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/the_spaces_of_a_changing_society

A framework of informality and vitality Constructing the Sustainable Delta City Studio Work | FEB 2016 - JUN 2016 complete project: https://issuu.com/antoinecanazzi/docs/booklet__modified_

1CM = 1 Million Years

Tayuling Tour-Realm Design Master of Architecture Thesis | FEB 2012 - JAN 2013 complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/sylviechen_pf

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30,000+

City Acupuncture

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10,000+

Sensible Cloudscape

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5,000+

The wind that tells

60

500+

The Insertion of Zone Re-connectors Architecture Design Studio Work | SEP - DEC 2010

Taichung Cultural Center Competition Professional Work | MAR - JUN 2013

Keelung Harbour Composites Architecture Design Studio Work | APR - JUN 2011

Mass Orchestra

Juming Sculpture Museum Architecture Design Studio Work | SEP - NOV 2009

more works: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/emuyschen

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01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

Mapping of human activities in relation to the Dajia river landscape of three time periods.

Source: by the author based on data from historical maps, historical descriptions, google maps, and GIS databases.

BEFORE 1850

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1850-1950

1950-TODAY

Steffen Nijhuis (S.Nijhuis@tudelft.nl) Han Meyer (V.J.Meyer@tudelft.nl) Paola Viganò (paola. vigano@studiopaolavigano.eu)

Site location: Dajia River Basin, Taichung, Taiwan

1200 KM2

THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY Transforming Dajia River Basin as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure This project explores the landscape potential of Taiwanese river valley in integrating water and river management with urbanism in the context of a highly sensitive, dynamic and fragile environment. Taking one of the most illustrative river basin, Dajia River, as the study case, the project tests the hypothesis of mountainous river as opportunity for transforming the river valley as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure.

PROBLEM RIVER + MOUNTAIN = OBSTACLE PROBLEM FIELD

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Content: Landscape-based regional planning, landscape urbanism, water urbanism, landscape as infrastructure.

PLANNING

Supervisor:

100KM2

Thesis | Indivisual Work

DESIGN

FEB - JUN 2017

PROBLEM STATEMENT Heavy-engineered approach of the existing water infrastructure reaching bottle neck: Efficacy significantly decreasing

study case testing site

-- sensitive & fragile landscape

HYPOTHESIS/RESEARCH BY DESIGN RIVER + MOUNTAIN = OPPORTUNITY DAJIA RIVER LANDSCAPE

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-- challenging water management EXTERNAL THREATS Climate changes Socio-economic shifts

Rainfall getting extreme and unpredictable Cannot prepare the territory for future change

dam or reservoirs hydro-power plants water treatment plants source or water supply main line or pipes agricultural irrigation area Dajia river before 1890

complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/p5_seperate_yunshihchen

01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

STRATEGIC PLAN AND LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES

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4x Current water infrastructure: mono-functional and linear system

Transformed water infrastructure: multi-functional matrix system

LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES

Agriculture - wet farming (rice)

Agriculture - dry farming (fruits/tea/grains)

Existing habitation

Historical river courses

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Horizontal corridor between national parks

Existing protected forestry

Vertical corridors along streams normal streams low mudslide risk streams

Prospering forestry Existing forestry trails

medium mudslide risk streams

New forestry / slope-work trails

high mudslide risk stream

Maintenance points

MOBILITY

Slope stabilization

PUBLIC SPACES

National Park

SLOPE

CORRIDOR

0

3

9KM

Machinery track for shipping Maintenance points Public transportation stops + moving kiosk & evacuation points (1 km coverage) Water infrastructure interventions Groundwater infrastructures

01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

STRATEGIC TOOLS Landscape as future spatial framework

PHASING THE TRANSFORMATION Hybridizing local activities

upstream

ACTORS

INSTITUTION MODEL

PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE

farmer environmental associations

Establish connection and sequence between activities

Water management as local collective activity

illegal house residents

Maintain proper proportion of different land uses

tourism service provider

Government-initiate to guide transformation Provide incentives or compensation

Hybridize alpine agriculture to create corridor

farmer

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develop autonomous units

left-behind forestry labour

Water infrastructure as visible public spaces

Use of (micro)topography

multi-functional + multi-scale

gravity as flow carrier

Recover the hidden flows

Sediment (from erosion) recycle and reduction

hyporheic water / historical river courses / micro-topography

illegal building owner

both regional and local scale

forest park operator

Legitimacy pressure + policy-change + incentive

Prosper forestry to suppress agriculture sprawl on slopes

farmer

illegal building owner farmer family living in rundown houses

water-retaining wall / rice terrace structure downstream

Legitimacy pressure + profitable model Encourage bottom-up initiation of local actors

Hybridize coastal plain agriculture to create corridor

2030

2050

2100

mitigate the urgent problems

reservoirs capacity - 50%

the post-reservoir era

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01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

design strategy landscape operative structure

DOWNSTREAM INTERVENTION: KAOMEI AREAS LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES

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CORRIDOR

SLOPE

MOBILITY

PUBLIC SPACE

Hybridization agriculture initiated from the historical rivers courses

Micro-topography define flooding area and hidden water flow (hyporheic zone).

Circular route of multifunctional public transport stops.

Water-collection at empty spaces and fallowed fields.

TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY

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0

200

600M

DESIGN INTERVENTION

Incentivized ecotourism investments Potential renovation of private properties Religious buildings Illegal / unregistered industrial factories Proposed bus route

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N 0

50

150M

01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

a. RECOVER HISTORICAL RIVER COURSES GROUND LEVEL deepen fields empty fields turn into pond water intervention

- 1.2M - 2.5M - ~1M

AREA

WATER QUANTITY

38,800 m2 64,500 m2 18,700 m2

38,800 m3 (1m floodable) 97,000 m3 18,700 m3 2

1,391,000 m

Zoom-in site

322,800m3

3

695,500m (600mm-24hr: ~0.5m flooding)

46% released by + spaces for water

deepen fields

~1 meter floodable Aquatic vegetable farming deepen the fields for 1.2M

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b. COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACTIVITIES - Grain sunning place + local household on roads on trenches small reservoir

Hydrography interventions

Operative structures ...

- Religious place + plaza + agricultural fields

corridor

on trenches small reservoir

public space

corridor public space

... before / after

before / after

small temple next to the fields

lowered existing field

existing empty building

local temple

plaza in front of temple

COMMUNITY REVITALIZED BY RECOVERING THE HISTORICAL RIVER COURSES

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traditional houses multifunction rennovation

private open spaces

public transportation + moving kiosk system

01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

UPSTREAM INTERVENTION: LISHAN - HUANSHAN AREAS LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE STRUCTURES

CORRIDOR

SLOPE

MOBILITY

PUBLIC SPACE

Hybridization agriculture starting from horizontal corridor axis.

Slope stabilization by forestation or installing stabilizing structures

Circular route of multi-functional public transport stops.

Water-collection at empty spaces and fallowed fields.

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local church

existing retaining wall

community center

hostel modify small roads' pavement

breakfast restaurant

20%

20%

rice terrace

fruit farming

5%

irrigation pond

25%

DESIGN INTERVENTION river/reservoir sediment

100%

reforestration

material for renovation

surplus water

a. SLOPE ACTIVITY HYBRIDIZATION

30%

sustainable forestry

Huanshan community

material

material for structures

fruit farming

pond

soil expose to rain -> strong erosion shallow-root plantation CURRENT SITUATION: EXTENSIVE FRUIT FARMING

rice terraces

fruit farming

irrigation

slope stablizing underflow + surface water

forest collect & filter water distribution by gravity

HYBRIDIZED ACTIVITY WITH APPROPRIATE PROPORTION

design strategy landscape operative structure

recycling reservoir sediment

public or public-oriented buildings private building for public/visitor service public-initiated water spaces modification of existing retaining walls DIY rain gardens private households joining rennovation

existing retaining wall

local church gathering spaces

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WATER SYSTEM AS PUBLIC SPACES private buildings for public services (hostels, snackbar, retail stores)

public buildings (schools, church, community centre)

KNOW-HOW

community public/water space

modify pavement

INCENTIVE TECH- AID

sharing facilities

existing retaining wall

renovate existing small community modify retaining digging centre pavement wall (~2m)

sharing working facilities (van, trolly)

PRIVATE-JOINED DIY RAIN GARDEN private households joining rennovation

private households joining rennovation DIY rain gardens

0.25

0.5

0.75

1KM

01 - THE SENSITIVE RIVERSCAPE, THE SINUOUS TERRITORY

LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION

TODAY

2030 FIRST PHASE TRANSFORMATION Regional scale: Mitigation of the urgent problems by starting agrarian activity hybridization and slope stabilization along the designed corridor axis.

Local scale: Public-initiated water retention spaces.

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complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/p5_seperate_yunshihchen

FINAL IMAGE Incrementally transformed slope activities.

Incentivized private-joined renovation and DIY water-gardens.

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02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY

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Map of public spaces’ porosity potential The open spaces or public functions in the city with their possiblity to adapt t h e m s e lve s t o t h e c h a n g i n g s o c i a l structures.

POROSITY POTENTIALS FOR FRACTIONS high

low

Content: Urban planning and design intervention based research of social issues.

PLANNING

50 KM2

Site location: Oderzo, Veneto, Italy

10KM2

Supervisor: Paola Viganò (paola. vigano@studiopaolavigano.eu)

Oderzo, città archeologica, a middle size Italian town, has undergone significant social changes that are reflected in its contemporary layers of landscape, urban tissue and the mobility systems. Villas, vineyards, rivers, medieval churches, modern infrastructure and industrial platforms give the pace of continuity from the ancient times to today.

DESIGN

Academic | Group Work with Magdalini Papadam

The porous spaces transformation in the city of Oderzo

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1870s

2

3

1955

2016

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SEP 2016 - JAN 2017

THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY

THE CHANGING SOCIETY, THE CHANGING WORLD “… The European Union is facing unprecedented demographic changes (an aging population, low birth rates, changing family structures and migration)” — EMPL, European Commission

Starting from social study approaches, we address issues that formulate the link between space and its users in the context of demographic structure changes. The project explores how space can adapt to the crucial, accelerating and inevitable social changes, densify opportunities and incrementally transform a diverse facets of collective life.

Sources: 1. http://www.ristoranteragazzon.it 2. http://picclick.it/Odezo-Piazza-Del-Popolo-Treviso-1955-381275176922.html 3. Photo by the author

Three social groups are significant in proportion changes: the aging population in need for high(er) living standards; the teenagers gradually turning away from the cityscape; and the new migrants population.

Observing the idiorythms of everyday life within the housing typology and its dispersed configuration, the project takes the existing spatial structures as the cornerstone of transformation, projecting possible future scenarios of energy, housing, and public space networks.

complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/the_spaces_of_a_changing_society

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02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY

A MORE AND MORE POROUS CITY What will happen if voids keep growing in the city?

?

Consider the inevitable demographic changes, economic crisis, and climate changes, will a toohollowed city-scape become an obstacle to a more sustainable and resilient lifestyle?

2001

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MAPS OF EMPTY DWELLINGS* IN 2001 AND 2011 The city has becoming significantly more porous in the past 10 years. * the data dwelling refers to every individual unit able to accommodate an individual use.

(data description originally in Italian: Abitazioni vuote e abitazioni occupate solo da persone non residenti)

2011

= One empty dwelling, which can be: 1.

Vacant building, possibly abandoned

2.

Vacant apartment or underused part of a house

3.

Dwellings that belong to residents not officially registered in Oderzo km0

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10

15

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TREND SCENARIO What if the trends of social changes continue?

Heavy costs on social-welfare and health-care expenses.

Degradation of building stock and open spaces.

Housing price rise and become unaffordable for young population Extensive urbanization

More senior housing & social facility required Unaccessible green spacesor car parking

COUNTERACTING SCENARIO What if we lessen the social pressures brought by the demographic trend?

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A strategy of retrofitting regarding the housing stock with progressive densification of the compact tissues Creation of new voids will be filled by new kind of public spaces, enhancing the vitality of the city

Integrating empty voids into collective space network

Integrating reuse of empty voids with l andscape or local production

Pedestrianized spaces

Release empty voids for improving living environment with nature or as passages

Hybrid green spaces freely accessible for all groups of people

Activities to attract young population

Incentivize new use of spaces

Green vegetation

More performative public transport stops

02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY

POROSITY IN THE SPACE WHERE WE LIVE POROSITY OF MATERIAL

embedded ability to absorb diversity Multi- family housing

Dwellings with shared entrance and part of common spaces.

small family

large family single resident core family couple diverse types of households

Mixed-use housing

Commerce and services in the groundfloor, housing on top.

single resident

(1) individual dwellings in horizontal configuration

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Dwellings with individual entrance that leads directly into the house, designed for one household.

couple diverse types of households

limited types of households

(2) individual dwellings in vertical configuration

(3) with secondary structure, often productive

family shrinking new use of space rent-out energy-sharing urban agriculture storage ...

family expanding re-fabrication of interior spaces

potential of adapting to houshold structure changes

large family

diverse types of commercial activities

Single-family housing

POROSITY OF FRACTURE

ability to adapt and enhance diversity

limited types of households

(4) individual structure house with garden

family expanding re-fabrication of interior spaces

family shrinking new use of space

potential of integrating commercial activities with household structure changes

family shrinking new use of space

family expanding re-fabrication of interior spaces

potential of adapting to houshold structure changes

family expanding adapting to changes by expanding spaces for living

family shrinking new use of space

Vacant buildings

Unused or underused spaces

Non-residential dwellings

(1) public buildings, sport (2) educational and commercial facilities (3) industry and warehouses

MAP OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSING TYPES Porosity of material: the embedded ability of the buildings to contain diverse household compositions.

Porosity of fracture: the spaces' ability to adapt to or influence the changing patterns of the household structure in relation to the use of spaces.

flexible in making change of space size

Railway River Multi-family housings Mixed-use housings Single-family housings Vacant/ abandoned housings

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02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY

COUNTERACTING SCENARIO VISUALISATION

SCENE 1: CITY CENTRE The “Rambla Opitergina” at Piazzale Vittoria

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Rambla Opitergina proposal, view near Via Giuseppe Mazzini The decreasing car use generates voids at the extensive parking of Piazzle della Vittoria Integrating the released open spaces will incrementally transform the avenue into a a casual, comfortable and pedestrian-friendly axis that facilitates various kinds of activities, linking to the existing public spaces in the historical center. Empty dwellings will be recycled into new use to provide more collective social life.

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The axis leads to the hospital and social-care facilities, therefore a pedestrianfriendly connection with is important. Alone the axis there are underused monumental squares, buildings, fenced parks, and empty dwellings. Filling these spaces with new opportunities, the axis has the potential to become a normal, casual and hybrid setting, offering more options of collective life to the society.

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Oderzo historical centre

Train station

Caserma Zanusso

Village Piavon

02 - THE SPACES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY

COUNTERACTING SCENARIO VISUALISATION

SCENE 2: PERIPHERY - Special opportunities in combinition with local industry and facilities

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Border of village Piavon proposal, more performative daily-life services The concentration of mono-functional, car-based and daily-life services display dull open spaces, impeding opportunities of integration with neighboring resources. With the decrease of car use, the shopping and waiting (for bus) articulate the potential to show better performances. The spatial re-qualification around the hypermarket, for example, will change the space from routine to a hybrid venue for leisure and social.

Current energy model

Proposed energy model emission of hot air

indoor heating

waste of heat

soil heating

discharge of hot water thermal pollution public space warming-up Agriculture land

HEATING CONTRACTOR

During winter, the farmers spread some chemical particles to prevent the soil from frozen.

FROZEN FOOD INDUSTRY

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Public spaces In winter days, many public spaces remain empty.

CLOSED FACTORY HYPERMARKET

Residential housings

PROPOSED DENSIFICATION

The heating-up of residential spaces requires heating facilities which consumes a lot of gas.

TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE

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Specialized opportunities with existing functions

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Oderzo historical centre

At the border where residential, industry, education, and agriculture meet, we propose densification to make use of the released lands from current parkings and closed factories. The housing not only brings new public spaces, it is also a sustainable model of energy sharing, linking new opportunities to individual functions.

Train station

Caserma Zanusso

Village Piavon

complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/the_spaces_of_a_changing_society

03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON

CASABLANCA AS A LIVEABLE METROPOLITAN PARK OF HAVANA BAY

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landmark / preserved buildings kept and re-used buildings green areas concerned waterscape interventions protected wetland

Content: Constring sustainable delta cities design with water; green-blue infrastructure

PLANNING

50 KM2

Site location: Casablanca, Havana, Cuba

10KM2

Supervisor: Han Meyer (V.J.Meyer@tudelft. nl), Birgit Hausleitner (B.Hausleitner@tudelft.nl)

DESIGN

Academic | Group Work with EMU colleagues

0

FEB 2016 - JUN 2016

RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON A framework of informality and vitality

Cuba, a world stopped in the "special time" after the end of cold war, has been suffering isolation and serious economical crisis. Today, the political-economical transition has forced Cuba to compromise and open. Havana is in a middle of an overwhelming changes that will reflect in the urban scape. The tourism growth, the climate change, and the shifting of the industrial port from the Havana Bay are the three main drivers that bring potentials as well as threats. Different questions arose in our attempts to rethink the Havana Harbour: can we propose a new framework for action which can be all environmentally, socially and spatially responsive?

31 OVERALL STRATEGY (group proposal) Havana Bay a sequence of amphitheater organizing different relationship at edges of the habitation and water.

complete project: https://issuu.com/antoinecanazzi/docs/booklet__modified_

03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON

THE CASABLANCA At Casablanca, the landscape exhibits powerful identity with the limestone ridge falling into the bay, and settlements inhabiting on the steepest part of the slope.

The studio proposal consolidates the role of the area being the metropolitan park for the city of Havana.

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This project approaches from the neighborhood perspective to provide at higher level a development scheme, and then zooms in with interventions to upgrade public spaces, integrated with green-blue and mobility networks. The aim is to achieve a sustainable framework that not only provide betterment to the living environment, but also preserve the area's vitality and spatial quality, helping the place to build a stronger identity and a coherent connection to Havana metropolitan as a whole.

Cristo de La Habana 1953 Castillo de San Carlos 18th Century

Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro 16th Century

Fisher village since 16th Century

Observatory tower 1900s

Hillside informal houses since 18th Century Cabotage and carpenter Workshops since 1740s

Military barracks, warships since 1780s

Container Industries since 1960s

Marsh wetlands

SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS informal residing housings along the slope

low density with scattered vacant spaces

0

hilltop: port-related technology institutes residing neighborhoods manufacturing/ military area

private/ inaccessible spaces public/ semi-public spaces

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criteria of vitality

240M

0 8

semi-open spaces elements that blocks accessibility

24M

railway wall/ fence street vitality

low --------- high

SPATIAL ISSUES Disconnection between green and blue

Vacant land

Lack of natural and artificial water supply

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Deterioration of public spaces and physical facilities

Vitality attractors

INTERVENTION CONCEPT

Rainwater network

vertical inaccessibility

enhance vertical connection

public space + water network

Vertical connection

03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON

MAPPING THE SPATIAL POTENTIALS 1. Mapping of vacant lands Vacant space with green vegetation Vacant spaces with hard pavement

1+2 potential location for public space intervention

3+4 potential location for rainwater harvesting

2. Mapping of vitality and semi-public functions Buildings Semi-public functions Vibrant streets

3. Mapping of public owned green spaces public-owned green spaces

4. Mapping of water flows Direction of water flow

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Lower points of the ridge / flatter parts on steep slopes

DEFINE PUBLIC SPACES Open spaces to be created (green-blue network + public spaces) Maintain existed open spaces Gov-owned green spaces

Public buildings Non-residential functions Buildings to be taken out Neighborhood blocks

school

Sta tio n

fer ry p oin t

Kios k & ca fe

DESIGN INTERVENTION 0

20

60M

me con dical sul tatio n

stor e stor e

Observatory Tower

existing park

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03 - RETHINKING HAVANA - A SINUOUS HORIZON

PHASING THE TRANSFORMATION GREEN-BLUE NETWORK

MOBILITY SYSTEM

existed green private green protected wetland water system defined public spaces

PHASE 1 existed bus line new bus line train (cancelled)

declined railway to be replaced by bus line

integrate public space with rain harvesting

PHASE 2 complete water system in the neighborhoods

tramway

change bus into tram; keep the original main roads in industrial and military

enlarge ecology park to clean industrial pollutions

36 PHASE 3 existing ferry new ferry lines

raise public transportation and walkability of streets in neighborhoods

downgrading several roads in the neighborhoods to pedestrian ways

CITY ENVELOPE Constructing a stronger landscape identity: Visual quality from important public spaces Ensure visibility of landmark and the hill ridges from the bay and historical centre, maintaining tourism potentials and the symbol of metropolitan park

HISTORICAL CENTRE

HAVANA BAY

shorten street blocks densify by in-filling

maintain living spaces visual quality

CASABLANCA

SPACIAL QUALITY

Institutional functions integrated with public accessible landscape design for rain-water network Semi-public functions serve as the attractor of people to come to the inserted greenblue corridors Soften the atmosphere of streetscape with water and vegetation, providing more shadows and better atmospheres

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04 - 1CM = 1,000,000 YEARS

S L: VISITOR CENTER M: MOUNTAIN HOSTEL S: TEA HOUSE + W.C.

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100

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TAYULING AS A TIME-SPACE COMPLEX With the encircling valley and saddled ridge, Tayuling's unique landform embraces natural forces of all directions and people from everywhere with their activities.

NATURE := TIME-SPACE COMPLEX Nature = net of dynamic relationships

All the things, phenomena, and population, carry their own timetable and logic, meeting and colliding here. Therefore a complicated, interlocked, and intertwining Time-Space Complex is being composed.

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30,000M2 PLANNING

Site Location: Tayuling Alpine Area, Nantou, Taiwan Content: Landscape architecture planning + design

15,000M2

Supervisor: Hao-hsiu Chou (hchiu@thu.edu.tw)

DESIGN

Thesis | Individual Work

0

FEB 2012 - JAN 2013

1CM = 1,000,000 YEARS Tayuling Tour-Realm Design

As we walk one centimeter, we're actually crossing thousands of miles and millions of years.

The accumulation of advances has allowed people to overcome nature’s limit and develop our own scales of time and space. With what attitude should artifacts held when entering natural spaces?

This project first generates a delicate and appropriate attitude for architectures, or artifacts, to enter a natural space. Secondly, develop a method for a TOUR-REALM* design that integrates constructions with the atmosphere and essence of a natural place, or the land. *TOUR-REALM Refers to an integrated trajectory for experiencing a place.

TAYULING Water shed of Liwu and Dajia rivers Traversed since 18th century, the excavation of alpine since 1950s Important traffic node connecting the east and west sides of Taiwan End of Ancient Trail in Red Pine Woods

Ridge of Central

He-Huan Ancient Trail

Ge olo gy al tit ud e4 0o ES

Mountains

Tayuling Saddle Point

He-Huan Tunnel East Exit

complete project: https://issuu.com/ilune246/docs/sylviechen_pf

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SLICE

M Mountain Hostel

along Ancient Trail in the Pine Woods

DEBATE BETWEEN PROTECTION AND DEVELOPING Current facilities consider solely function and economy The ongoing debate between absolute protection and development could not find an intermediate agreement

THE SLICE METHOD A slice is a small piece of section representing the whole, captured from the environment and does not break the continuity or relationship within nature.

most nature-protected life separated from nature.

forthright and active damage to environment.

SLICE

S W.C. + Tea House

on Ridge and Saddle Point of Tayuling

TAYULING TOUR-REALM The three designs with each place are three time-space slices. They can be experienced seperately to explain the spirit of one place at a time. Or, with a throughout tour, they compose the Tayuling Tour-realm where people sense and learn the Genius Loci of the site. Together the whole design exhibits the overall complex state of the place, telling the story of Tayuling.

SLICE

L Visitor Center

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at East Exit of Hehuan Tunnel

TIME SPAN

L

Orogeny Tayuling Synclinorium Plate Collision Slate Metamorphism Cross-Island Highway Backward Erosion

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Season Alternation Plant Evolution Red Pine Needles Ancient Crossing Trail Tree Canopy

S

Climbing Clouds and Fogs Cloud Sea Watershed Clouds Influx

LOCATION

East exit of Hehuan Tunnel at intersection of Motorway 8 & 14

End of the ancient Hehuan Corssing Trail at 41.1 K Motorway no.14

Saddle point above Hehuan Tunnel on the ancient Crossing Trail

PROGRAM

VISITOR CENTER

MOUNTAIN HOSTEL

TEA HOUSE + W.C.

STRATEGY

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SLICE L: VISITOR CENTER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Entrance Office Restaurant Kitchen Shop Toilet Bus Waiting Parking

NATURE

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HUMAN

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GEOLOGICAL v.s. TOPOGRAPHICAL LINES

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SECTION A Geology: developed foliation surface (rock cleavage) Propose a collapse-tolerated structure system

SOUTH-EAST ELEVATION

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The structure system tolerates small collapsings of slate terrain.

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3

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SLICE M: MOUNTAIN HOSTEL

NATURE

M

HUMAN

C E

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F

GF PLAN VOID UNDER CANOPY

SUNLIGHT PROJECTION

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1

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4M

Trunks and canopy define density, and density define spaces Density changes with weather, like plants' vicissitudes D

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SECTION C

0

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2

4M

SECTION A

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SECTION B A

B

LOW

WALK

DENSITY

DINE

REST

WASH

SLEEP

HIGH

TOILET

SHOWER

The trees and piles define density, and density defines spaces.

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SLICE S: W.C. + TEA HOUSE

SECTION B NATURE

S

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NATURE HUMAN

SADDLE LANDFORM

SEC C, D, E

E

D

CLOUD MOVEMENT MAPPING 3

Both concave and convex terrain Clouds and mist flow along the hillside everyday, bringing water vapors to/from materials

1 2 3 4

Tea House Viewing Platform W.C. Ancient Trail

GF PLAN 0 2 4

8M

C

SECTION A

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1 4

B

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Equidistant sequence of wood piles stand as mist indicator.

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05 - CITY ACUPUNCTURE

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Supervisor: Wei Tseng (wei_ tseng@hotmail.com) Site Location: Taichung, Taiwan

30,000M2

CITY ACUPUNCTURE

The Insertion of Zone Reconnectors The development of Taichung has gone through different government regimes, each holding different aims for region planning. The discontinuity of city planning resulted in some region began to decline, or left abandoned, unable to improve. Function-oriented zones were built up regardless of their neighbors. Walls, fences, or the covering up of rivers, disperse as disconnectors within the city.

1920s

1970s

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DESIGN

Content: Urban analysis and intervention design proposal.

ANALYSIS

Academic | Individual Work

10,000M2

SEP - DEC 2010

INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS A city comprises countless invisible connections, contributing to the city's operation system.

Along the boundary, by adding one more use of warm water, the industrial and agricultural function are reconnected, as well as the consumption of natural resource reduced. industrial zone DISCONNECTOR: RETAINING WALLS

agriculture zone

+

industrial zone RECONNECTOR: WATER SYSTEM

ONE MORE USE OF WATER

INCREMENTAL TRANSFORMATION The water system can be incrementally implemented to transform the disconnector - the gap between industrial and agricultural areas into a more sustainable infrastructure model, as well as a lively corridor in the city landscape.

Applicable acupuncture points

agriculture zone

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URBAN DISCONNECTORS As the city grew, disconnectors gradually accumulated in the urban scape where functions were installed without integration with the existing context. The disconnectors disrupt the ecological, social, and cultural flows of the city.

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1. Campus 2. Industrial Zone 3. Technical Factory 4. Landfill 5. Agriculture Zone 6. Bus Parking 7. Hospital 8. Cemetery 9. Military Zone 10. Luxurial Residential Zone 11. City Government

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Regions cut, blocked, or burried by disconnectors, were left unplanned and unplesently abandoned.

50 Industrial zone since 1970s.

Retaining wall built to consolidate the industrial region.

Farmers grow rice here since before 1920.

ACUPUNCTURE PROCEDURE

AGRICULTURE

INDUSTRIAL

Proposed water model: Water usage +1

Water recollecting system

TDS < 500ppm

RECONNECTED URBAN SCAPE additional space for activity and rest.

Shifting 6M to enable cargo passing and the landscape corridor.

An abandoned factory become resting places and platform.

Warm water monitoring.

spaces for workers' break times or interactive activities.

Warm water related function.

Control the warm water distribution.

Seedings growing by applying warm water. ( t r a d i t i o n a l ly g ro w e l s e w h e re o r w i t h water warming facility)

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Site Location: Taichung, Taiwan Role: Site analysis, concept and design diagrams, landscape design and 3D + 2D presentation.

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10,000M2

Project Manager: Jou-ming Lin (jm@jmlin.com.tw)

DESIGN

Professional | Group Work

0

MAR - JUN 2013

30,000M2 STRATEGY

06 - AROUND THE TREES

ACTIVE + SENSIBLE PLATFORM

Sensible systems installed within and around the architecture, transforming the museum x library into a dynamic, living Sensible Cloudscape.

SENSIBLE CLOUDSCAPE

NTU student dormitory Feasibility Study The project converts the nostalgia of former Shui Nan Airport site to a transparent, light, and translucent space that is not only spatially responsive, but also tangible and sensible. It is a Cloudscape with an unique form, creating a dynamic platform for observation and sharing.

In a world where interaction of information and knowledge being the key of culture cultivation, this Cloudscape of Taichung Cultural Center is a sensible and organic existence in metropolitan. Its ability to sense and deliver will spread culture to the city and present Taichung to the World.

SAUNTERING ARCHITETURE So that the public gains more than two times the verdant green.

A. Green start along city entrance

B. The Ocean of Pi exhibiting water show

C. Outdoor stage for free performances

D. Floating Cloud theatre

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E. Water plaza as extension space of library

ENTRANCE IMAGE FROM TAICHUNG CITY

F. Sky ledder for the arts

Design as one of the smart node in Jade Park

06 - AROUND THE TREES

CLOUD PATH People's aesthetics of living and the extention of the literary landscape.

2F LIBRARY READING TERRACE (in charge of the terrace landscape design) Refreshing water landscapes extending the relaxing atmosphere of the reading spaces in the library.

G ra n d e s ca l a to r c l i m b i n g through museum, previewing spectacular art works and exhibition spaces.

Get ready on the wooden platform and seats, epic motion stories are coming to the giant outdoor screen

1 2 3 4 5

Public palza Cloud path start Shop & cafe entrance Museum lobby Library lobby

6 Rainwater pool 7 Auditorium 8 Exhibition room 9 Children's reading room 10 "Life of Pi" scene

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Sky Park

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TC Center

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Ol to d ai Ja rp de lan Ec e t o P ra ar cks k. ex te nd in g

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Earth Park 9

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20 M

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN (in charge of the ground floor landscape design)

Wave-generating pool where many scenes of the movie "Life of Pi" was shot.

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INFINITIVE MUSEUM X LIBRARY Maximized benefit through combination of programs and seperation of management.

Cloudtop park: a rooftop art space for young artists to experiment and innovate for the contemporary arts.

It's a Sensible Cloudscape for international exchange of art trends and promote the living aesthetics of the world.

The 365-meter gradual ascending to the roof floor aim to provide a serial and consequent experience of the soothing park atmosphere, while installing various accessible venues for cultural activities and exhibition within its reach.

The Cloud Path spans from the ground through the exterior landscape of Cloud Museum.

Overlooking the tide-generating pool, the ocean of Pi promises a stunning fountain show.

VIEW FROM JADE ECO PARK

CLOUDTOP ARTSCAPE (in charge of the roof top landscape design)

Cozy corners beside the trees for individual meditation or chats among friends.

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07 - THE WIND THAT TELLS

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15,000M2 STRATEGY

Site Location: Keelung, Taiwan Content: Historical building reuse and harbour complex's urban and architecture design.

DESIGN

Supervisor: Chun-kai Fang (fang1217@gmail.com)

Keelung Harbour Complex

Keelung Port plays an important role in the commerce and shipping industry. Now the inner port area has become a rather tourism place and waterfront gateway of northern Taiwan. However, most of the waterfront areas are blocked and inaccessible to the sea. This project provides recreation facilities and public spaces, reusing the historical Port Bureau. The design use wind as a main factor to activate the vicinity, increase sea accessibility, and open the view in front of the train station, the entrance of the city.

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Academic | Individual Work

4000M2

APR - JUN 2011

THE WIND THAT TELLS

DESIGN CONCEPT Minimizes indoor waiting spaces; maximize outdoor and waterfront activities; introduce natural wind as vitalizor.

07 - THE WIND THAT TELLS

CONTEXT ANALYSIS Port development has blocked accessibility to water. The location of the project situates between the oldest part of the harbour and the railway station, thus it has the potential to bring the image of merchant harbour back to the city's daily life. The active natural could also bring air flow and movement to the dense city of Keelung.

URBAN STRATEGIES

DAILY WIND DIRECTION AND SPEED WIND DIRECTION IN WINTER

WIND DIRECTION IN SUMMER

ACTIVITIES + WIND

WIND speed direction

1 Ground floor activities for visitors to traverse.

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WATER ACCESSIBILITY

3 Broad view from city entrance.

Waterfront activity Container Terminal Fishing Port/Market

4 Hotel units apply wind for ventilation.

Passenger Terminal Military / Gov. Use Facility / Factory Public / Recreation

5 Wind + fabric shape a kinetic plaza.

Water accessibility LOW

HIGH

2 2 1

SECTION A 0 2 4

10M

1 Exhibition Lobby 2 Exhibition Room

2 2 2

4

2 1

4 3

SECTION B 0 2 4

ENTRANCE FACADE

10M

1 2 3 4

Hotel Multiple-use Room Guest room Exhibition Lobby Exhibition Room

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50M2 STRATEGY

SEP - NOV 2009

Content: Art museum design with developing spatial concept based on artist's artworks.

DESIGN

Site Location: Taichung, Taiwan

The project aims at developing the museum's spatial form to that could express the essence of Ju Ming's sculpture works. Starting from a plain form of the materiality -- a simple cube, the diversified proportion and scale of the masses together with their various combination, orchestrate the dynamic articulation of Ju Ming's sculpture works.

DESIGN AS A CASUAL LIVING ROOM AMONG CULTURAL FACILITIES

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Supervisor: Hom Liou (homliou@gmail.com)

Ju Ming Sculpture Museum

20M2

Academic | Individual Work

MASS ORCHESTRA

CONCEPT MOVEMENT + SUBSTANCE

N 0 1

3

5

10 M

TRUE ď &#x201E; FALSE Situated inside the museum park of National Taiwan Gallery of Fine Arts, the location of the museum plays as an casual skit between formal cultural facilities. Therefore, the museum provides a cut-through passage connecting to other parts of the park, such as the fountain and the basement courtyard. The articulation of different slopes also provide a diverse multi-functionality as a space for visitors and local residents to chill out.

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tables

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shear wall

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water landscape

50

alcove for display

shear wall

40

glass curtain wall

more comfortable seats

service counter

30

large storage cabnets

bookshelve \ cabnet

art works

20

parapet as seats

light stream case

Centimeter 10

stairs, hight change

small windows/ openings

solid wall

double layer glass wall

08 - MASS ORCHESTRA

WIDTH STUDY 90

250 300

cafe / office

200

museum theater/ auditorium

150

exhibition room (double sides)

120

exhibition room (single side)

110

stairs, ramp, escalator

blcony

corridor

stairs, ramp, escalator

100 400 Centimeter

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08 - MASS ORCHESTRA

B

c

d

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 0

1

2

N

d

c

5M

b

A

a

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c

e

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SECTION A 0

1

2

5M

a b c d e f g h

Entrance lobby Museum theater Sculpture exhibition room WC Museum cafe Painting exhibition room Storage / mechanical Office

c

double-layered tempered glass panel

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laminated structural toughened & heatsoaked glass, d=40cm

d

h

g

b

g

roof gutters SRC structural wall

f e

c DETAIL OF GLASS + SRC CONNECTION

2F PLAN

0 1

2

3F PLAN

5M

0 1

2

5M

double-layer tempered glass panel gate hinge & motor

uplifting folded door, glass panel+ stainless steel frame Low-E 8mm+8mm laminated, tempered glass panel, in 200cm* 100cm module stainless fixtures and bolts fixed 20mm structural glass panel

DETAIL OF MAIN GATE g

c

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c

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SECTION B

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5M

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