Tahe Hostel Community Design (Taichung, Taiwan)─Remolding the Spatial Fabric and Typo-morphology of a Colonial Japanese Community

• Main Authors: chang, shih-kung, 張世恭
• Other Authors: Chaolee Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36818010716812091884

碩士 === 東海大學 === 建築學系 === 90 === In recent years, many historically significant cultural assets in Taiwan’s modern cities have been destroyed by an influx of people and traffic. The damage has not been limited to single historic buildings, but extends to the loss of far more priceless, though easily overlooked, urban landscapes and historical spaces. Rather than addressing the conservation and utilization of individual historic buildings, this thesis design reconsiders the few local anonymous Japanese houses surviving in the historic district of Taichung in context of their overall relation to the urban context. This project, based on analyses of urban tissue and typo-morphology, seeks to understand the pattern of substantive space and community space in the historical transition of the Tahe district in Taichung. It also actively explores mutual spatial relations on both city and building levels to reconstruct a potential spatial order for the future development of the community. The focus of this project is on the mutual relation between the historical image of Tahe Village and the modern city in which it is located. In terms of design method, the project begins with a few Japanese style homes surviving from the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), and attempts to implant new activities into this shattered space of the past. The design replaces individual buildings with a “hostel community”, reweaving the living memories of these Japanese homes and building a new urban image for Tahe Village. With regards to the design concept, the project suggests a kind of dwelling morphology in a state of flux, implanting a fluid rest stop for travelers' in this barren historic district. By repairing the urban fabric and forming typo-morphological connections, the design creates a new living mode and historical dialogue in this traditional district.