Tunghai University Learning Commons / YD Architects
Architects: YD Architects
Location: Taichung, Taiwan
Architect In Charge: Chun-Yen Chen
Design Principal: Jui-Ti Chen
Area: 1,500 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Zhi-Tan Lin
Update: WOHA’s ‘Breathing Architecture’ Exhibition
As an update to last year’s post on WOHA‘s ‘Breathing Architecture’ exhibition, their work has seen great success in Frankfurt and Taichung. Now on its last leg, it will travel to Taipei and be on display from March 22-May 10 at the “Mobile Museum – SEED project”. Reminding us of bold visions of the future, in which plants reclaim nature for themselves, the architects realize the permeation of buildings and landscape, and of interiors and exteriors in projects. WOHA’s tropical architecture is permeable, leafy and interspersed with community spaces, which truly capture the essence of how architecture is breathing. For more information, please visit here. More images can be viewed after the break.
Ruin Academy / Marco Casagrande
Architects: Marco Casagrande
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Design Team: Nikita Wu
Jut Foundation Coordinators: Lea Yi-Chen Lin, Yi-Ling Hung
Area: 500 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: AdDa, Tsai Ming-Hui
Taiwan Solar Powered Stadium / Toyo Ito
Construction is finished for Japanese architect Toyo Ito’s Solar Powered Stadium in Taiwan. The stadium’s roof is covered by 8,844 solar panels. The stadium is located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and it was built to coincide with the opening of the World Games, to be held this July.
The “World Games Stadium” holds 55,000 spectators and it cost $150 million to build. The stadium will hold the record for largest solar-powered stadium in the world with it’s 14,155m2 roof. It could potentially generate 1.14 gigawatt hours of electricity every year, enough to power up to 80% of the sorrounding neighbourhood.
Seen at deputydog. More images, after the break.
Tower of Colony Installation / Groundwork
Exhibited at the ‘Next Play: Shifting Ground’ Exhibition in Taipei, the Tower of Colony is the Hong Kong project by Groundwork, which responds to a theme of ‘Displacement’, to transform a one acre site at Huashan, a cultural district at the heart of Taipei City. The architects were interested in how migrants react on a foreign land. By building on the site, they ‘colonized’ one acre of grassland from site, therefore colonizing a fragment of Taipei. Hong Kong, a colony by nature, now has its own colony. Their abstraction of the act of colonization can be observed at two scales: The Tower and The Performance. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Baisha Wan Beach and Visitor Centre / Wang Weijen Architecture
Architects: Wang Weijen Architecture, Northern Space Design Company
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Area: 5657.0 sqm
Year: 2007
Photographs: Courtesy of Wang Weijen Architecture
Water-Moon Monastery / Artech Architects
Architects: Kris Yao | Artech Architects
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Architect In Charge: Kris Yao
Design Team: Hua-Yi Chang、Kuo-Lung Lee、Wen-Li Liu、Jen-Ying Kuo、Yvonne Lee、Chin Tai、Jun-Ren Chou、Yi-Heng Lin、David Chang
Area: 8422.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Jeffrey Cheng
Dormitories for ITRI Southern Taiwan Campus / Bio-Architecture Formosana
Architects: Bio-Architecture Formosana
Location: Liujia District, Taiwan
Site Area: 52,792 sqm
Floor Area: 6,182 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Bio-Architecture Formosana
Ritz Plaza Housing Complex / Chin Architects
Architects: Chin Architects
Location: Neihu District, Taipei City, Taiwan
Design Team: I-Ju Chin, Hung-I Lin, Hung-Nan Chu, Mu-Chen Chan, Shen-Hung Chiang, Wei-Shian Chen, Wan-Ju Chang
Building Contractor: Bionic Group
Clients: Bionic Group
Area: 2,278.28 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Jeffrey Cheng
Chen Minshuku / TSDesign
Location: Tainan, Taiwan
Principal Designer: Chao Yuan-Hung, Chi Chien-Ching, Wang Jun-Jie, Chen Hsuan
Character Of Space: Minshuku (B&B)
Client: Miss Chen
Contractor: TA-Shan Development Contractor Ltd.
Cost: 5.5 Million NT
Area: 132 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Tsai Tsung-Sheng
Summit Housing Sales Center / Lab Modus
Architects: Lab Modus
Location: Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Project Team: Kevin Chang (Principal), Jay Lin, Will Hsieh, Ivy Lin
Area: 660 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Lab Modus
Yuwen Library / MAYU architects
Architects: MAYU architects
Location: Tainan, Taiwan
Architects In Charge: Malone Chang & Yu-lin Chen
Project Team: Kwantak AUYEUNG, Jin-de HSU (Project team), Dong-long WU (Construction supervision)
Structural Engineer: Tien-Hun Engineering Consultant Inc.
Area: 2,965 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Guei-Shiang Ke
Keelung New Harbor Service Building Competition Entry / ACDF Architecture
The design proposal for the Keelung New Harbor Service Building aims to reject grand architectural gestures that deliberately exist out of context for the sole intent of making a grandiose statement. ACDF Architecture rejects the use of elaborate sculptural forms that are fashionable, or are required to compensate for poorly planned design that does not respond to the local environment. They favor an architecture that portrays a creative, site specific design that is “grounded” in the local context. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Keelung Harbor Competition Entry / PAR + SES
Designed by PAR (Platform for Architecture + Research) and SES (Sériès et Sériès), their stage two finalist entry for the Keelung Harbor competition adopts a form that resists easy classification to free-associate with successive symbols of the utilitarian, the industrial, the poetic. Becoming a landmark in the harbor city, it combines maximum artistry with maximum efficiency. The new harbor project is only one piece in a larger green network that links public open space with waterfront amenities throughout the city. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Dadong Art Center / Cie + MAYU architects
Architects: de Architekten Cie + MAYU architects
Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Structural Engineer: Arup Amsterdam + Tien-Hun Engineering Consultant Inc.
Acoustics Consultant: Peutz & Associates + Gade & Mortensen Akustikk + Prof. Wei-Hwa Chiang NTUST
Environment Technology Consultant: Hander Engineering & Construction Inc. + I. S. Lin & Associates
Area: 36,470 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Yu-lin Chen, Guei-Shiang Ke
Hotel Dua / Koan Design
Architects: Koan Design
Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Design Team: Kuo Yao-Huang, Joyce Kuo, Lawrence Wei
Year: 2012
Area: 16,500 sqm
Photographs: Kyle Yu Photo Studio, Courtesy of Koan Design
U-House / Hsuyuan Kuo Architects & Associates
Architects: Hsuyuan Kuo Architects & Associates
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Project Team: Hsuyuan Kuo, Effie Huang, ChengHsuan Hung, HungChih Wei, LiuYin Lin
Year: 2012
Area: 355 sqm
Photographs: Lee & Zheng
Hsuyuan Kuo Architects & Associates
Architects: Hsuyuan Kuo Architects & Associates
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Project Team: Hsuyuan Kuo, Effie Huang, ChengHsuan Hung
Year: 2011
Area: 2572.52 sqm
Photographs: Jin Ming Zheng
