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Gateway Park Gateway Park as Landmark by Catherine MOSBACH |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
CM: Lithosphere design as a work in progress
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
CM: -Emphasing the power of landscape morphing in a new heart of development -That people feel in another world when they cross the park
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
CM: To realize the drawing as near as possible
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
CM: 3 years and always evolving under construction
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
CM: -As we are working in a tropical humid climate with regular earth work and hard climatic condition so we need to deel with such kind of condition in a gentle way -We follow our inspiration
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
CM: It is unique and stay unique : no duplicata
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
CM: It was an international competition we won
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
CM: We work together with philippe rahm more involved in furniture and architecture
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
CM: everyone
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
CM: No ressembling
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
CM: It means that it always change as connected to life condition as our body is always in movement
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
CM: Trace and pencil. Then all devices to develop a large project and especially xxx with transsollar
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
CM: Accepting change as a design process
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
CM: Transsolar, atelier LD, Bollinger & G
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
CM: Comfort simulation and capitation of real condition
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
CM: -The climatic variations of the site through computational fluid dynamics simulation (CFD) -The models were developed by German firm Transsolar who used ANSYS Fluent software
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
CM: Langages and construction tradition in Asiatic country with other way to manage decision with political heritage
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
CM: Philippe Rahm ask me to organize a team as representative and team head As Sanaa ask me for Louvre Lens As Jourda ask me to do Botanical Garden
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
CM: Work on a very large scale, invest huge infrastructure like bridges and tunnel, work with another cultural tradition and discover Taiwan heritage
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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