A NEW FORM OF KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTER

Spaces of transaction in Tainan’s city centre

Architectural Association Housing and Urbanism Programme + NCKU Architecture & Planning + NCTU GIA

A NEW FORM OF KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTERSPACES OF TRANSACTION IN TAINAN´S CITY CENTRE

International Intensive Urban Workshop in Tainan.

27 June to 6 July 2011

Architectural Association Graduate School Housing & Urbanism Programme,

National Cheng-Kung University Departments of Architecture and of Urban Planning,

National Chiao-Tung University Graduate Institute of Architecture,

with the collaboration and support of Tainan City Government.

Tutors: Hugo Hinsley and Horng-Chang Hsieh

Students:

Zcho-Yee Lee

Jou-Heng Yeh

Ting-Wei Chu (Alley)

Hung-Yi Lai

Yong-hang Chiu

Sky Tseng

Claire Huang

Sunkist Yang

Courtney Erwin

Husna Ahmed

Julia Malysheva

Marianela Castro De La Borda

Olivia Fontanetti

Philipp Stumhofer

Yaniv Lenman

MOBILITY ORGANISATIOM

Proposing spatial Guidelines based on two key themes – Not a fixed Masterplan.

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

AMBITIONThe ambition of the proposal is to develop a new form of urban quarter and create spaces of transaction for a knowledge based

economy city. A project based in a morphological and typological approach evolving the urban fabric and considering the

adaptability of the buildings to create a logic that can setup a developing framework.

Kings place, London, precedent

The working space as a dynamic space where the building

offers a social infrastructure. Co-development of spaces for

business and orchestra, with permeable public space at street

level. Hierarchy of spaces enables multiple uses of spaces

during day, evenings and weekends.

One North, Singapore, precedent

The buildings work as clusters of mixed use, and the voids perform as spaces of transaction

One North, Singapore, precedent

Porosity of buildings and unbuilt space

Tainan’s is highly linked to a sequence of science parksSouthern Taiwan Science Park

Tainan Science Park

Regional scale

Taiwan western belt of science parks

Regional scalePart of the ‘Golden Triangle’. Our area is at a strategic position located at the centre of a knowledge-based economy region.

The Knowledge Cluster of Mission Bay, precedent

Learning from a legacy of mono-functionality, with no urban crossovers. But it could be redeveloped to have crossovers with the

financial district which is nearby.

The Knowledge Cluster of Mission Bay, precedent

Emergence of new kind of knowledge environment, but the building clusters are mono-functional buildings surrounded by parking.

Tainan´s proximity to technological/science parks, universities and reserch companies, together with the highspeed rail, can be

used to engage it’s city centre in the knowledge based economy.

Tainan is connected at the regional and national scale by various means of transportation.

How can we create new possibilities of exchange and collaboration between the university, the city government, technological

parks and other private investors?

URBAN CONDITIONS

URBAN CONDITIONS

The underground railway project creates a new area 8 kilometers long, but our intervention is focused in the area close to the

university, the current rail station and the city centre because the possibilities of exchange and collaboration can start here.

GOVERNMENT

Local, regional and national

UNIVERSITY

Teaching, research &

development

COMPANIES

Multi-National Corporations

as well as Small & Medium

Enterprises

SPATIAL INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT COLLABORATION

For the creation of a highly innovative area it is essential to generate stimulating spatial conditions. But to have a successful

proposal in the centre of Tainan it is necessary to consider the involvement of three major urban actors.

KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTERS

KNOWLEDGE BASED QUARTERLearning from Bloombsbury and Fitrzrovia in central London, where technology, knowledge and research can exchange, and

where the urban fabric performs as social infrastructure.

URBAN CHALLENGE 1: Developing social infrastructure to attract and retain talented peopleThe creation of a spatial development able to support the exchanges and collaborations between different urban actors. This spatial

development will consider new kinds of urban workspaces as a social infrastructure that will enable the attraction and retention of

talented people to the city centre.

Suzhou Compound

URBAN CHALLENGE 2: use of the Tabula RasaThe underground railway project opens up a new strip in the city centre confronting us with the particularity of a Tabula Rasa project.

The second urban challenge of this proposal is to reconnect the current area of the railway to the city centre and the university, and

also to take this opportunity to reorganize the Mobility System in the city.

MOBILITY SYSTEM

MOBILITY SYSTEMTainan City Centre has an urban condition of a primary movement system with major roads, and with vibrant commercial activity at

the ground floor level.

MOBILITY SYSTEM:Primary and Secondary Movement System

MOBILITY SYSTEM:Mobility and Congestion

MOBILITY SYSTEMIn our study area different problems related to the mobility system can be identified.

New proposed Intercity Bus station

Different Section

1. No connectivity

4.High connectivity

2. Low connectivity

3. Medium connectivity

MOBILITY SYSTEMIn order to improve the mobility system we need to reorganise the surface traffic and develop a connection with the underground

railway system.

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces of transaction

Spatial Organization based on city fabric

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SPATIAL ORGANISATION - of the University campus

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Learning from Hafen City

Phase 1: smaller buildings, adaptable. Phase 2: small and medium buildings. Phase 3: HQ office building must also

provide housing and public spaces.

Legal and spatial framework.

Setting up typological and

morphological guidelines.

SPATIAL ORGANISATIONTabula rasa as opportunity and challenge

SPATIAL ORGANISATIONblock size of the site in the existing city fabric

SPATIAL ORGANISATIONadjusting the large site to 3 urban blocks

Spatial Organizationalpattern of the unbuilt space and activation of the voids

Spatial Organizational key spaces for transaction

SPATIAL ORGANISATIONSpatial organisation of the built space and permeability

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces around the train station

Learning from Osmose Project, Paris. New concept for underground stations.

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces around the train station

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces connecting the campus and city centre

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Connecting the Campus and city centre

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Key spaces connecting the park, the campus and the medical cluster

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Connecting the park, the campus and the medical cluster

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Connecting the park, the campus and the medical cluster

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

Phasing strategy

MOBILITY SYSTEM + SPATIAL ORGANISATION Guidelines for developing an urban fabric to form a Knowledge Based Quarter in Tainan City centre