Reinterweaving Cultural Mixed use Social Housing by Lang-Wen Ma and I Chung Hsu |
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| DESIGN NAME: Reinterweaving PRIMARY FUNCTION: Cultural Mixed use Social Housing INSPIRATION: Rice culture is the most essential part in Taiwan’s agriculture industry. The disposed rice straw is widely applied on the architecture as well as interior design. It is used for making furniture、partitio UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This social housing design aims to reproduce the local rice culture and history. The sharing lifestyle an sharing entertainment are expected to be created between the new residence and local residence. Furthermore, to attract tourists to participate with these new lifestyles is important too. The terrain in Qingpu district and local agriculture traditions are the main concept of this project. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Thousands of ponds and hills in Taoyuan is the main feature of Nature, and this unusual landscape is used as the principal axis of this social housing design. Through the combination of organic form (public area) and module form (living area) to achieve the flexible utilization of space. Moreover, the view of Laojie river and the grass field are emphasized to ascend the relationship between nature and architecture. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in November 2018 in Taoyuan and finished in January 2019 in Taipe, and was exhibited in Taiwan Tech as the final design project for the design studio course of junior architecture school students. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The location of this project was a huge rice paddy. After the main curvy structure is accomplished, most of the partition walls are made of straw bricks as well as the furniture to let visitors experience the straw arts and atmosphere right away. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The commercial area is at first floor to the third floor, providing those artists who live in the upper floor to teach others how does the artworks be made. The space provide machines and tables, at the other side, the library provides quiet place for residence and others reading. The lower part of this architecture adapt concrete shell structure to create curvy terrain-profile columns and ceiling to reflect the special geography of Taoyuan. The upper structure for residence is the normal concrete structure to optimize the utilization of space and reduce the budget. TAGS: rice, rice stem, agriculture, terrain, mound, weaving, taiwan, social housing, residence RESEARCH ABSTRACT: This social housing design aims to reproduce the local rice culture and history. The sharing lifestyle and sharing entertainment are expected to be created between the new residence and local residence. The terrain in Qingpu district and local agriculture traditions are the main objective we research for of the design. As the result, we create the combination of organic form and module form to achieve the flexible utilization of space. CHALLENGE: Plethora ponds, hills, mound, grass field, and the view of Laojie river in our site Taoyuan Qingpu are the main features of Nature, and these unusual landscape environment are used as the dominant concept of this social housing design. Through combining diverse usage of rice to provide visitors a different experience as well as increase the opportunity of interaction between tourists and residence. ADDED DATE: 2019-11-26 02:02:00 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : I Chung Hsu IMAGE CREDITS: Lang-Wen Ma and I Chung Hsu, 2019. |
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Reinterweaving Cultural Mixed Use Social Housing by Lang-Wen Ma and I Chung Hsu is Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2019 - 2020.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Lang-Wen Ma and I Chung Hsu. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Lang-Wen Ma and I Chung Hsu. |
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