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LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIO ‘a line across the city’ Landscaped Form This studio is aimed toward exploring the possibilities of what Kenneth Frampton posits as a critical, compensatory, or remedial landscape for the city. Furthermore, it sets out to put the notion of an ecological stance in architecture to the test, using the city of Taipei as its laboratory. In this sense, a new landscaped form for Taipei-Keelung Corridor is anticipated to be the product of this studio. Through design work, the studio will try to breakdown Frampton’s critique of the laisez-faire city and vision for a remedial landscape on at least three different spheres; the formal, the biological and the socio-political. Through design work, the studio will try to breakdown Frampton’s critique of the laisez-faire city and vision for a remedial landscape on at least three different spheres; the formal, the biological and the socio-political. Regarding form, the studio will challenge students to collectively negotiate an urban design strategy based on a proposed diagram/narrative of landscaped form. As a fundamental premise, we shall interpret Frampton’s conception of landscaped form as a continuous open public space that finds its way across the city of freestanding aestheticized objects to enable new forms of movement and augmented modes of interpretation of nature and participation in the urban life of the city. On a biological level, Frampton’s description of the ‘ongoing, destructive commodification of the man-made world’ suggests an understanding of the city as a complex assemblage of ongoing processes. We shall develop observation protocols and analytical tools that will allow us to gain deep intelligence of the urban processes at play in our attempt to bring about change, control, or steer the ecosystem logic in favor of our design intentions. Such opportunism implies a paradigm shift from rigid master planning regimes to more flexible tactics of scenario programming. Frampton’s call for a remedial landscape further evokes the notion of the urban as it pertains to ecological disaster. The understanding of processes of succession will inform students in the development of their proposals through plausible self-propelling phasing sequences to help restore a sustainable ecological order. Frampton’s violent critique of market-driven city-building denounces the public sector’s failure to perform the necessary compensatory role. The socio-political dimension to landscaped form passes through finding freedoms and integration of those social groups disadvantaged or forgotten by the ‘invisible hand’. Taipei Open Space Lexicon / Critique Studying a map of Taipei will reveal the following types of open spaces: A. The neighborhood parks We refer to those neighborhood parks of dimensions around 50m by 50m. These owe their petite scale to their Japanese urban heritage and appear as isolated oases roughly every 400-600m, forming a diffuse cloud of distinctly disconnected green dots. B. Daan Park Daan Park is the single largest green space inside of Taipei. It plays the role of ‘central park’. Despite its undeniable popularity as a recreational ground and pleasure garden, it functions as an autonomous precinct, denying its participation or connection to any larger park system. C. The riverside parks These, on the other hand, do form a system of interconnected linear parks that provide a direct correlation to the waterlines that practically encircle the city in its entirety. However, despite their relative success, one could argue most of these parks remain relatively disassociated from the urban experience given the fact that most of them physically exist outside the perimeter of levied ‘walls’ of the city. These tracks are a straightforward consequence of a series of ‘found’ geographical features rather than a guided response to a more purposeful urban narrative or problematic. D. Yangmingshan National Park Across the Keelung river, to the north, only 10km and 800m of elevation change separate the city from its iconic and mystical nature utopia. One could imagine both the Grand Hotel and the National Palace Museum beyond, serving as gateways to Yangmingshan National Park. The soon-to-open Performing Arts Centre in Shilin will come to further symbolize the city’s cultural crossover. However, high-speed highways, the Keelung river itself, and poorly adapted and discontinuous open spaces at many instances compromise public access from central Taipei to this natural resource by means other than the automobile or public transportation. E. The path to Wulai To the south, the path to Wulai Falls and Fei-ts’ui Reservoir describes a trajectory plagued with areas of natural beauty, scenic quality and unrealized recreational potential. Similarly, one could imagine the Taipei Zoo as a programmed gateway leading the way into this wonderland valley. Such panorama urges us to contest the problematic of the disconnection, fragmentation and lack of coherence between different open public spaces in Taipei. This studio represents an effort to challenge the students to build a continuous open space narrative across the city. The Regional Dimension The argument for a landscaped form for Taipei must also necessarily incorporate an understanding of the wider regional logistics at play as population flows in and out of the city over different scales of time generally vary according to the location of work centers, housing availability and access to transportation alternatives. The relevance of the following regional poles will be brought into question: - Located just 25km away, both Keelung and Tamsui provide a window of sea access and serve as relevant exocities to Taipei. - An even wider lens will reveal multiple centers of work, knowledge and innovation along the Taipei-Taoyuan-Hsinchu linear conurbation in what we could define as the Taipei megalopolis and the country’s economic powerhouse. - The recent construction of Xueshan tunnel across the mountains has brought Yilan closer to the capital fueling its urban and economic development and offering attractive alternative lifestyles. A Traversable City Imagine a green infrastructure that enables a new way to cross the city, offering an alternative to the present car-based urban reality... Imagine a remedial landscape that traverses the city expanding on the concept of what is particular to Taiwanese identity moving in to the future. Imagine a landscaped form with the capacity to empower youths to walk fearlessly to school; with the capacity to emancipate the elderly and empower the dependent. Imagine an urban operation that brings public and private interest in partnership and provides new work opportunities to minorities and marginalized social groups. Imagine a continuous urban experience that allows cyclo-commuters a healthier alternative way to their workplaces and cyclo-tourists a pleasant and unique way to experience the heart of Taiwan. We offer 3 alternative traverses along with preliminary narratives for students to bring to examination: a. Yangmingshan-Wulai (north-south traverse) A culture line of sophisticated museums and refined pleasure gardens... b. Keelung-Taoyuan (east-west traverse) A silicon line of hi-tech industrial districts, high speed communications and global business... c. Tamsui-Yilan (northwest-southeast traverse) A learning line of higher education institutions and new housing products for the young on urban regeneration sites...

平時成績、出缺席 Deskcrit, Attendance | 30% 期中評圖 Midterm Review | 30% 期末評圖 Final Review | 40%

• Landscaped Form
• Taipei Open Space Lexicon / Critique
• The Regional Dimension
• A Traversable City

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