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Forest Park Residential
Forest Park Residential
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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Other Projects by SCFC / UAD
Forest Park Residential
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
Design Inquiry Before the Project
“What should a residential complex facing the largest metropolitan park in the country look like?”
External Focus: The residential community should avoid the current trend of treating "luxury housing" as a closed-off urban enclave, detached from the surrounding environment.
Internal Focus: The design of the community should foster a strong sense of community identity, pride, and belonging for its residents.
Design Principles and Objectives
Provide open spaces for public use and leisure activities.
Incorporate street-level retail spaces to offer services, fostering a vibrant streetscape.
Design private courtyards that evoke a natural, playful landscape, integrating the environment with daily life.
Each unit should feature a large balcony with views of the park, creating a breathable architectural form.
In response to the hot climate of Kaohsiung, the design should prioritize ample shading and an environment that fosters closeness to nature.
Site Analysis
The site is located in the new urban district of Kaohsiung, directly across from the Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park, along its central axis. The surrounding area is an urban redevelopment zone, and to the east, there is a long greenbelt offering potential landscape and scenic views.
The nearby MRT station is located to the east of the site, and as surrounding communities develop, the station will become a central hub for daily life. If accompanied by a mix of commercial services, it could foster the development of a unique recreational street environment.
Configuration Strategy
The site is an L-shaped plot, which accommodates three buildings of varying sizes, creating a diverse range of residential unit types. At the street corner, a large tree-lined plaza is provided, and on the east side, a small friendly green space is created. The western and southern sides feature a 6+4 meter covered walkway, while the northern side is reserved for a private internal courtyard. The two ends of the courtyard are connected by stairs and a ramp, integrating a first-floor backyard with second-floor indoor and outdoor spaces. This design aims to enhance resident interaction and create a tight-knit community atmosphere.
Design Keywords
Tree Plaza
A street corner plaza exceeding 500 square meters, offering a buffer space for residents before entering the Metropolitan Park. It serves as a key social and recreational gathering spot and as a transitional space between the residential complex and the busy street corner.
Shaded Eaves Walkway
The main roads along the west and south sides are recessed to allow for a 4-meter-wide covered walkway, integrated with retail spaces. This provides areas for rest, dining, and daily services, creating an open interface between the residential units and the surrounding community.
Homecoming Imagery
The perforated metal grid roof structure symbolizes a welcoming gesture for residents coming home. Upon entering, they will pass through dense green island landscapes floating over a reflecting pool, leaving the urban noise behind—a soothing, almost cleansing experience.
Green Slope Courtyard
The internal courtyard employs a naturalistic design approach to create an organic landscape, with gently sloping green lawns inviting residents to ascend to a spacious second-level activity platform, which also serves as a focal point for the garden.
Looped Pathways
The intentionally designed turning pathways form a looped circulation system, connecting the public spaces on both the first and second floors. This layout provides residents with the opportunity to experience the changes in weather and time of day.
Interlocking Scenic Terraces
When a housing development directly faces the nation’s largest metropolitan park, the central question is not how to amplify scenic value, but whether housing can provide an interface that is usable in everyday life between the city and nature, rather than functioning merely as a protected private enclave.
The site is located in Kaohsiung New Town, directly facing the central axis of Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park, within a context of emerging urban development and transit-oriented growth. Positioned at the threshold between urban life and a large-scale natural landscape, the project adopts a strategy of separating and setting back building volumes to avoid forming a continuous urban wall. This preserves visual, climatic, and ecological permeability, allowing the housing to participate in the park’s edge condition rather than dominate it.
Along the urban frontage, the buildings are set back to create a corner plaza and a continuous shaded arcade that serve as transitional spaces and places for everyday pause before entering the park. Shops are integrated along the main street edge, not as destinations, but as everyday services that support walking, resting, and casual encounters. In this way, the street becomes a lived environment rather than a corridor of circulation or consumption, and the housing maintains a gentle and sustained relationship with the park.
Internally, three residential volumes are arranged in response to the L-shaped site, accommodating a range of dwelling types while forming a protected communal courtyard. The courtyard is shaped through a continuous sequence of gentle slopes, steps, and platforms rather than a single flat terrace, allowing residents to choose how they move, pause, or gather. Public space is therefore not prescribed by a single function, but remains open to multiple patterns of everyday use through time.
In the vertical dimension, a continuous looping circulation system connects shops, shared facilities, and communal spaces. Shading devices and structural rhythms modulate sunlight, ventilation, and shadow throughout the day, directly shaping how these spaces are occupied. Public life emerges here not through programming or regulation, but through walking, lingering, and repeated everyday passage.
At the dwelling scale, asymmetrically arranged balconies respond to Kaohsiung’s balcony policy while allowing every unit to face the park. These balconies function as inhabitable thresholds between interior and city—spaces that residents can occupy, adapt, and transform—rather than as fixed compositional elements of the façade. The entrance to the community is articulated as a porous structural frame derived from the archetype of the house, providing shade, ventilation, and a spatial transition that allows both body and mind to adjust when entering or leaving home.
The project seeks to reposition housing within the contemporary city—not as an isolated private domain, but as a place where everyday public life can continue, allowing living to remain connected to the life of the city.
“What should a residential complex facing the largest metropolitan park in the country look like?”
External Focus: The residential community should avoid the current trend of treating "luxury housing" as a closed-off urban enclave, detached from the surrounding environment.
Internal Focus: The design of the community should foster a strong sense of community identity, pride, and belonging for its residents.
Design Principles and Objectives
Provide open spaces for public use and leisure activities.
Incorporate street-level retail spaces to offer services, fostering a vibrant streetscape.
Design private courtyards that evoke a natural, playful landscape, integrating the environment with daily life.
Each unit should feature a large balcony with views of the park, creating a breathable architectural form.
In response to the hot climate of Kaohsiung, the design should prioritize ample shading and an environment that fosters closeness to nature.
Site Analysis
The site is located in the new urban district of Kaohsiung, directly across from the Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park, along its central axis. The surrounding area is an urban redevelopment zone, and to the east, there is a long greenbelt offering potential landscape and scenic views.
The nearby MRT station is located to the east of the site, and as surrounding communities develop, the station will become a central hub for daily life. If accompanied by a mix of commercial services, it could foster the development of a unique recreational street environment.
Configuration Strategy
The site is an L-shaped plot, which accommodates three buildings of varying sizes, creating a diverse range of residential unit types. At the street corner, a large tree-lined plaza is provided, and on the east side, a small friendly green space is created. The western and southern sides feature a 6+4 meter covered walkway, while the northern side is reserved for a private internal courtyard. The two ends of the courtyard are connected by stairs and a ramp, integrating a first-floor backyard with second-floor indoor and outdoor spaces. This design aims to enhance resident interaction and create a tight-knit community atmosphere.
Design Keywords
Tree Plaza
A street corner plaza exceeding 500 square meters, offering a buffer space for residents before entering the Metropolitan Park. It serves as a key social and recreational gathering spot and as a transitional space between the residential complex and the busy street corner.
Shaded Eaves Walkway
The main roads along the west and south sides are recessed to allow for a 4-meter-wide covered walkway, integrated with retail spaces. This provides areas for rest, dining, and daily services, creating an open interface between the residential units and the surrounding community.
Homecoming Imagery
The perforated metal grid roof structure symbolizes a welcoming gesture for residents coming home. Upon entering, they will pass through dense green island landscapes floating over a reflecting pool, leaving the urban noise behind—a soothing, almost cleansing experience.
Green Slope Courtyard
The internal courtyard employs a naturalistic design approach to create an organic landscape, with gently sloping green lawns inviting residents to ascend to a spacious second-level activity platform, which also serves as a focal point for the garden.
Looped Pathways
The intentionally designed turning pathways form a looped circulation system, connecting the public spaces on both the first and second floors. This layout provides residents with the opportunity to experience the changes in weather and time of day.
Interlocking Scenic Terraces
When a housing development directly faces the nation’s largest metropolitan park, the central question is not how to amplify scenic value, but whether housing can provide an interface that is usable in everyday life between the city and nature, rather than functioning merely as a protected private enclave.
The site is located in Kaohsiung New Town, directly facing the central axis of Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park, within a context of emerging urban development and transit-oriented growth. Positioned at the threshold between urban life and a large-scale natural landscape, the project adopts a strategy of separating and setting back building volumes to avoid forming a continuous urban wall. This preserves visual, climatic, and ecological permeability, allowing the housing to participate in the park’s edge condition rather than dominate it.
Along the urban frontage, the buildings are set back to create a corner plaza and a continuous shaded arcade that serve as transitional spaces and places for everyday pause before entering the park. Shops are integrated along the main street edge, not as destinations, but as everyday services that support walking, resting, and casual encounters. In this way, the street becomes a lived environment rather than a corridor of circulation or consumption, and the housing maintains a gentle and sustained relationship with the park.
Internally, three residential volumes are arranged in response to the L-shaped site, accommodating a range of dwelling types while forming a protected communal courtyard. The courtyard is shaped through a continuous sequence of gentle slopes, steps, and platforms rather than a single flat terrace, allowing residents to choose how they move, pause, or gather. Public space is therefore not prescribed by a single function, but remains open to multiple patterns of everyday use through time.
In the vertical dimension, a continuous looping circulation system connects shops, shared facilities, and communal spaces. Shading devices and structural rhythms modulate sunlight, ventilation, and shadow throughout the day, directly shaping how these spaces are occupied. Public life emerges here not through programming or regulation, but through walking, lingering, and repeated everyday passage.
At the dwelling scale, asymmetrically arranged balconies respond to Kaohsiung’s balcony policy while allowing every unit to face the park. These balconies function as inhabitable thresholds between interior and city—spaces that residents can occupy, adapt, and transform—rather than as fixed compositional elements of the façade. The entrance to the community is articulated as a porous structural frame derived from the archetype of the house, providing shade, ventilation, and a spatial transition that allows both body and mind to adjust when entering or leaving home.
The project seeks to reposition housing within the contemporary city—not as an isolated private domain, but as a place where everyday public life can continue, allowing living to remain connected to the life of the city.
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