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Keelung Harbor International Terminal
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
Our proposal for the New Keelung Harbor
terminal building focuses on the SYNTHESIS of three core concepts into a coherent,
elegant, and iconic solution which signals the formation of a new identity for Keelung Harbor. This
new identity seeks to:
Provide
a local landmark and portal for Keelung
which acknowledges its context and legacy, while simultaneously projecting its potential
future by:
a. forming
a portal condition with the opposing tower on the opposite side of the bay
b. referencing
the historical legacy of Keelung’s
Chinese name (the Hen Cage)
c. capitalizing
on the local industry of yacht manufacturing to explore the formal, material
and structural language of the composite industry as both inspiration and resource.
2. Animate
and connect the waterfront by:
a. harnessing,
stimulating, and distributing pedestrian activity, movement and flows by connecting
to existing public circulation flows
b. sharing
program with surrounding buildings
c. facilitating
intuitive navigation through open space-planning
d. encouraging
transitional programs and gradient transitions through soft boundaries that
define field conditions rather than enclosed spaces.
3. Integrate
visual, structural, and environmental performance as generative design concepts
rather than additive design solutions by:
a. optimizing
building orientation and massing for passive environmental design and control
b. harvesting
wind, rain, and sun through geometric configuration
c. plugging
in to district heating/cooling and waste disposal systems
d. integrating
structure and skin through geometric and material composition.
Design
Statement:
Inspired by the
geometric patterns of Taiwanese Hen Cages and the structural shells of luxury
racing yachts, the building takes shape in a dynamic gradient form that
transitions from exo-skin to exo-skeleton in response to programmatic content
as well as performative requirements. Thus, what appears to be formal
expression, is actually “informed form” which responds to the integration
of weather, urban context, program, circulation, and sustainability through
integrated design responses that inform the building orientation, spatial
layout, façade design, and choice of material and structural system.
The building program
is divided into three primary experience groups and cyclical sequences.
These three groups share programmatic overlaps and transitions which allow
exchange between groups.
Rather than consider
the programmatic arrangement as the organization of platonic programmatic
elements, we have considered the program as a self-organizing system of agents
of programmatic pixels which aggregate based upon weighted connections to
specified anchor programs. Starting with the typical bubble diagram to
define relationships, the placement of specific anchor programs re-distributes
the transitional programs into gradient fields of varying densities and
distributions of pixels rather than hermetic zones with defined boundaries and
thresholds.
terminal building focuses on the SYNTHESIS of three core concepts into a coherent,
elegant, and iconic solution which signals the formation of a new identity for Keelung Harbor. This
new identity seeks to:
Provide
a local landmark and portal for Keelung
which acknowledges its context and legacy, while simultaneously projecting its potential
future by:
a. forming
a portal condition with the opposing tower on the opposite side of the bay
b. referencing
the historical legacy of Keelung’s
Chinese name (the Hen Cage)
c. capitalizing
on the local industry of yacht manufacturing to explore the formal, material
and structural language of the composite industry as both inspiration and resource.
2. Animate
and connect the waterfront by:
a. harnessing,
stimulating, and distributing pedestrian activity, movement and flows by connecting
to existing public circulation flows
b. sharing
program with surrounding buildings
c. facilitating
intuitive navigation through open space-planning
d. encouraging
transitional programs and gradient transitions through soft boundaries that
define field conditions rather than enclosed spaces.
3. Integrate
visual, structural, and environmental performance as generative design concepts
rather than additive design solutions by:
a. optimizing
building orientation and massing for passive environmental design and control
b. harvesting
wind, rain, and sun through geometric configuration
c. plugging
in to district heating/cooling and waste disposal systems
d. integrating
structure and skin through geometric and material composition.
Design
Statement:
Inspired by the
geometric patterns of Taiwanese Hen Cages and the structural shells of luxury
racing yachts, the building takes shape in a dynamic gradient form that
transitions from exo-skin to exo-skeleton in response to programmatic content
as well as performative requirements. Thus, what appears to be formal
expression, is actually “informed form” which responds to the integration
of weather, urban context, program, circulation, and sustainability through
integrated design responses that inform the building orientation, spatial
layout, façade design, and choice of material and structural system.
The building program
is divided into three primary experience groups and cyclical sequences.
These three groups share programmatic overlaps and transitions which allow
exchange between groups.
Rather than consider
the programmatic arrangement as the organization of platonic programmatic
elements, we have considered the program as a self-organizing system of agents
of programmatic pixels which aggregate based upon weighted connections to
specified anchor programs. Starting with the typical bubble diagram to
define relationships, the placement of specific anchor programs re-distributes
the transitional programs into gradient fields of varying densities and
distributions of pixels rather than hermetic zones with defined boundaries and
thresholds.
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