Between the Community
Architecture as Collective Streets
How to make architecture be a catalyst for local street life?
The multi-layered street blocks of Tainan City have inherited a unique texture from its past; it reflects the structure of regional culture and introduces vigorous street life. This project aims to establish a three-dimensional micro-street block on the architectural scale and look for a new type of collective form as a bridge connecting the residents and the historic urban context.
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2015
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Studio Project (NCKU Architecture)
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-Bronze Award, HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards
-Honorable Mention, Far Eastern Architectural Design Award
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Community Center
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Tainan, Taiwan
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Chien-Zhi Wu
Urban Voids: Optimizing Urban Activities from Multi-Directions
The ground level generously provides open spaces such as pathways, plazas, pockets, Etc., linking the rich public activities with the existing urban texture.
Continuous Pathways: Networks for Communications
As a collective with various scales and levels of overlapping spaces, it introduces the excellent potential to enhance interaction and inspire people to communicate.
Collective Form: Weaving with Urban Texture
In respect of the diverse scale of the existing housing context, the building breaks down the form as a whole but as a collective form, weaving into the city's fabric.
Embracing Urban Life in the Most Intense Form
The design aims to recreate a new symbiotic public form rooted in Tainan's unique regional urban texture and civic culture. It is becoming the catalyst of variable public life while merging the gap between micro-human behaviors and the city scale.
Merging into the Regional Context
The vision for this project is to create layered open spaces for social welfare, education, co-working, and public events. The selected palette of natural materials such as red bricks, wood, iron sheet, and raw concrete also bridges the regional context with the collective form.
