High Stand for the Neighborhood

The High Stand is a community center for six villages, providing a space for disseminating information and a public space for community activities. The project aims to serve different groups of people categorized by distance and encourage social contact, and the program is therefore arranged accordingly.

The site locates in the West Central District of Tainan City. Before declining in the 90s, this area was the city’s center, always crowded with theaters, clothing stores, and restaurants. However, the area surrounding the site has been redeveloped recently. Tourists have flooded the neighborhood again since the completion of MVRDV’s Tainan Spring, while HaiAn Road has become a new nightlife district.

The primary purpose of the design is to compensate the local residents, and urban development, gentrification is always the primary objective. phenomenon. Hai-An Rd has attracted much more tourists after dors and residents reaching out to the road. Nevertheless, the interest The newly constructed community center will prioritize serving the residents, the victims of urban development. Regarding rezoning objective. The adjacent Hai-An Rd. is an excellent example of this it expanded, while it used to be a much narrower road with veninterest of the residents needs to be addressed as well. Therefore, the neighborhood.

Ground Floor

The ground floor aims to serve the group with the least distance, the local neighborhood. It is a hybrid of a wet market and a food court. The preconstructed is arranged in an array manner, while two open courts are placed in front of the two temples adjacent to the site providing a temple court that didn't exist originally. A cone-shaped core and two sets of escalators exaggerated the vertical circulation, which led to upper levels.

Upper Levels

The upper mass is an information center that serves the second closest group of people, the residents of the six surrounding villages. It contains a lecture hall, a library, and a gallery space. The void in the middle connects the people from the upper levels to the ground floors visually and leads sunlight into the reading area.

Roof Top Deck

The roof is an observation deck overlooking the entire Tainan City, which seeks to serve all the people beyond the community. Since the site is only meters away from the Tainan Spring, a popular attraction, the observation deck is also a sky garden for tourists to enjoy.