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The site is part of embankment of the Tamshui delta. It's about 300 meter long between weedy city edge and rocky waterfront where daily disappear-ance of the Sun below the horizon in the west.

場所之體驗Sensual Experiences of Space

Site Location

Taiwan Banks

Tamshui River

Bali

Tamshui

Fisherman’s Wharf

Taipei, Taiwan 20044th Grade design projectDigital Design Studios

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Concept

VILLA SAVOYE 1998, Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sensuality has been known to overcome even the most rational of buildings - Tschumi

On this ordinary embankment, I can always find common but not quite phenomenon. There is poetic quietness between man-made and the nature environment. I think the site intervention should keep and also make this unique site character stronger. Poetic sense exists within ambiguous relationships among all kinds of things. There is no accurate answer but you see the relationships, like the picture taken by Hiroshi Sugimoto. He intentionally took a blurred picture and left the details for viewer’s own interpretation. The blur draw audience’s attention to the relationships in-between rather than each object itself.

I’d like to design a series of devices that make people see the relationship that we’ve neglected. People could be in triggered by their own sensual experiences by see-ing the rare phenomenon of the site.

Sunset

Tide Silver grass

Fishing

Windows

Reflection

Guardhouse

Tetrapod

Embankment

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DESIGN INTERVENTIONCreating sequential experiences along the corridor and places for staying rather than passing by.

EXISTINGA passage to fisherman’s wharf

1.Windows

1.Postcard Store

2.Silver grass

2.Wind Device

3.Embankment

3.Tunnel

4.Tide

4.Tidal Pond

5.River bank

5.Water Pavilion

Making a Passage into a Place

The site is a passage to the city edge which is connecting to the fisherman’s wharf. By designing spaces for resting and recreational uses makes the site a place for experi-encing the beauty of the site.

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5 SITE FEATURES SELECTIONSite observation and locating 5 featured spots

DESIGN DEVICES5 devices for exploration and resting spaces

SITE EXPERIENCE INNOVATIONTo fisherman’s wharf

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2nd Floor To river bank

Entrance

Entrance

To sea1st FloorI would like to show existence of time in postcards.

Place cameras at particular spots. The images taken by these ones will be sent to the monitor at postcard store.

The site looks differently base on the weather, the time of a day, and the season of a year.

People get to choose the image they like and make it into a unique postcard which is taken right at the moment when they visit.

Postcard Store

2.5m x 2.5m interior space

Using the geometry to indicate viewing direction.

Folding the trian-gular geometry to form the entrance.

Cutting the walls to create new spacial relationships.

Enclosing indoor with transparent glass.

Windows with different sizes and directions frame the scenic view of site.

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East elevation South elevation West elevation North elevation

Postcard Store Elevations

By creating varies sizes and shapes of windows to frame views of the site. Therefore, each elevation tells distinct story.

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Embankment

Wind Device

By using canvas tents between the embankment and silver grass planted area, the wave that generated by the wind continues along the canvas. It’s a shelter underneath the canvas. When the sun light passing through the wavy canvas creates similar light effects as reflections of water on the ground.

Concept diagram

I would like to show the connection of silver grass and water wave.

Heavily vegetated silver grass by the embankment

The wavy form and the movement of the grass shares the same rhythm as water wave.

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Embankment

Door

Embankment Tunnel

Embankment tunnel is more than a shortcut to the water, it is also a viewing space and a passage to the next experiential space. The silver grass land and the riverbank is separated by

the embankment.

With the separation of embankment, people cannot sense the or hear the water even it’s so close to it.

Concept diagram

I would like to create a connecting tunnel to bring people to the water.

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The rocky riverbank reveals tidal changes from the heights of the rocks, although the pace might be too slow to be recognized right away.

By placing a retention pond around tetrapod area can be one of the ways to show the tidal changes. When it is high tide, the pond is filled with river water which stays when it is low tide.

I would like to show the tidal changes.

Tide Device

A 4m x 4m retention pond shows different expressions of the tide. The water starts to flood into the pond until only the edge of the pond and stone steps are revealed above water when it is high tide. On the other hand, people only get to see a pond filled with water and rocky riverbank when it is low tide.

Low tide

High tide

Concept diagram

Embankment

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There are always lots of puddles in this rainy site.

I would like to design a rain water pool above water level.

The different sense of distance of the sky over the horizon and the reflected sky over the puddle create visual depth of the sky.

Water Pavilion

It is a pavilion for resting and fishing with a rain water pool on top. The viewing deck is at the same level and also connects directly to the top of embankment. The infinity edge of the pool creates a seamless visual connection between the reflection pool and the horizon.

Concept diagramSky reflection

Embankment

The riverbank of Tamshui river

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Component Diagram

Stair

Pool

Drain within Column

Platform

Water Pavilion Perspective

Concrete is the material to create a fluidity form of struc-ture. Therefore, the drain/column is trying to represent the water going down, which is revealed in the gutter at very bottom. The gutter shows a path of ambiguous connection of rain water and river water and leave the space to viewer’s own representation.