TKU Courses and Research

TKU based courses and research


4th Year Design Studio 419

2004
Autumn
PUBLIC ATTIC

Course Description
Attic is the memory of the house, a subconscious space where all the objects are connected to stories. The studio was viewing the city as a house and thinking what would be the attic for Taipei.

The course was first time touching the Local Knowledge phenomena in the Taipei City.

2005
Spring
THIS IS THIS AND THIS AIN’S SOMETHING ELSE BUT THIS IS THIS (Local Knowledge I)

Course Description
First course focusing fully on Local Knowledge mirroring Taipei City with Yilan agricultural community. 100 km walk from Taipei City over the mountains to Yilan tracking the ancient trade path. The course was resulting to a book: This is This and This Ain’g Something Else but This is This.

A big void was discovered between the officially approved high-architecture and the locally constructed architectonic and urban reactions, which represents the genuine Taiwanese character.

Autumn
POST INDUSTRIAL FLEET

Course Description
Design strategies to recycle industrial ships out of use following the CREW*31 Venice Biennale 2004 work. This course was bringing the water element into the urban research and especially started to view Taipei from the river.

2006
Spring
INSTANT TAIPEI (Local Knowledge II)

Course Description
Local Knowledge course trying to define the essence of the Taiwanese character in Taipei and base architectonic design reactions on this Local Knowledge. This course took place in the ruin of the Shylin Paper Factory and through the course the importance of the ruin spaces in the city started to raise up.

2007
Spring
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE (III)

Course Description
Local Knowledge design studio realized in the Sanjhih farming and fishing community and in Taipei City mirroring the realities of the Local Knowledge in two different generations of Taiwanese development of build human environment (Sanjhih 1, Taipei 2). During the course was found the existence of the 3rd generation reality in Sanjhih with factories and restored farms side by side.

Autumn
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE (IV)

Course Description
Local Knowledge design studio in Sanjhih Datun River valley located between the T-Factory and the Pacific Ocean (3km). The students are studying the Local Knowledge in the valley and will design a 50 m2 new farm house based on their research.


Masters 1st Year Design Studio


2004
Autumn
HUMAN LAYER

Course Description
First course designed to research the possibilities of Urban Acupuncture. Large scale physical action Human Layer as part of the Taipei on the Move –exhibition. Resulting to a documentary movie Human Layer.

2005
Spring
URBAN ECOLOGY

Course Description
Design studio researching the possibilities of different use of modern high environmental technology as part of architecture and urban planning. The course was raising up the first thinking of the Third Generation City.

Autumn
URBAN NOMAD

Course Description
Research of the nomad quality of the Taiwanese urban character. Big scale exhibition realization for the Taiwan Design Expo 2005 in Kaoshioung. Resulting to the invitation for the Venice Biennale to represent Taiwan. Publication: PePo.

2006
Spring
ULTRA RUIN

Course Description
First design studio to research ruin architecture: man made has become part of nature. Design reaction based on the ruin quality understanding for architecture shared by man and nature (3rd generation).

2007
Spring
ULTRA RUIN II

Course Description
Design studio in the T-Factory, Sanjhih aiming to design a functional ruin. 1:1 scale realizations in the ruin. During the course I moved to live in the ruin and started a started a deep research of the possibilities of the Ultra Ruin architectural condition.

Autumn
GROWING ARCHITECTURE (ULTRA RUIN III)

Course Description
Design studio in the Datun River valley researching the possibilities to design a site specific ruin. Research based in the T-Factory through 1:1 scale constructions: Cocoon. Basic shelter is the seed of architecture, the rest will grow naturally from this. The studio is connecting the Local Knowledge and the Ultra Ruin.


Other

2004
Autumn
TAIPEI ON THE MOVE: HUMAN LAYER

TAIWAN NEW LANDSCAPES

2005
Autumn
TAIWAN DESIGN EXPO: FUTURE PAVILION
- Exhibition curating and architecture to look for future from 4 different angles: Urban Nomad, Urban Acupuncture, Organic Layer and Ocean. www.futurepavilion.blogspot.com

MOCA: CHAMBER OF THE POST URBANIST

2006
Spring
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP: URBAN FLASHES MUMBAI
- Ecological restoration for Oshiwara chain of slums together with a mixed team of Tamkang and Indian students.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: CITYZEN GARDEN
- Working on the Danshui river bank in Zhuwei.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION: 228 MEMORIAL PARK
- Purchase. The entry was to design a modernist ruin as a mixture of architecture and landscape.

Autumn
VENICE BIENNALE: YUO YUAN

2007
Spring onwards
T-FACTORY
- Research of the Ultra Ruin condition through constrcution and beign present: living on site.

CONFERENCE: FINNISH HIGH TECH ECOCITY TIANJIN
- Participation and reporting with an article for Taiwan Architect


PUBLICATIONS BASED ON THE TKU RESEARCH:

Can’t Push a River
- Article. Taiwan Architect 2006

Post Industrial Fleet
- Article. Taiwan Architect 2006

Urban Acupuncture
- Article. Taiwan Architect 2006

3rd Generation EcoCity
- Article. Taiwan Architect 2007

This is This and This ain’t Something Else but This is This
- Book. 4th Year Design Studio, Spring 2005

PePo
- Newspaper. Taiwan Design Expo, Future Pavilion 2005

Il Uomo
- Newspaper. Venice Biennale 2006



Born from the research and design studios the main lines of TKU based developed research are:

1. LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
• Urban Acupuncture
• Urban Farmers
• Urban Nomad
• Growing Architecture
• Third Generation City
• Taipei from the River

2. ULTRA RUIN
• Growing Architecture
• Third Generation City

With post-doctoral goal of research direction:

THIRD GENERATION CITY