The site is a 300 meter long embankment along the Tamshui River in Taipei, Taiwan. It is located between the city edge and the rocky waterfront. The document proposes a design intervention for the site that creates sequential experiences along the embankment and places for people to stay rather than just pass through. This would be accomplished through 5 design devices - a postcard store, wind device, tunnel, tidal pond, and water pavilion. The devices are intended to highlight different features of the site and allow people to have sensory experiences of the place.

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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 2004
4th Grade design project
Digital 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 INTERVENTION
Creating sequential experiences
along the corridor and places for
staying rather than passing by.
EXISTING
A 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 SELECTION
Site observation and locating 5 featured spots
DESIGN DEVICES
5 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 diagram
Sky 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.