sensual experiences of space
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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.