13 Landformation

Urban redevelopment is critical for an urban district to grow smoothly against urban decay. The redevelopment should consider the impact on the urban atmosphere socially, economically, and environmentally. Ground communal space, the intersection programs between buildings, is slowly defunctionalized as part of the urban decay. Land metabolism is the progress of land shifting from one program to another. It is the tool to articulate the need for space and guide future development, which provides the opportunity to grow new landforms. To create a new landform communal space, the building and its land need a new programmed structure to reactivate the social value of the land. Landformation will bridge the those forgotten urban spaces and solve the unbalance of urban programs and demands. The new landform system, which is physically, socially, and economically connecting buildings and infrastructures, can reform the existing urban texture and give the city the property of depth to develop further on.