Opening Row House in Yilan, Taiwan by Emerge Architects &

ArchShowcase

Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Opening Row House in Yilan, Taiwan by Emerge Architects & Associates

February 11th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Emerge Architects

Averagely 220 wet days per year plus frequent typhoon landings, A newly reform area incorporating alleys exclusively designed for pedestrian activities, with the dwelling needs of urban lifestyle and wide age range.

What is the housing reflecting Yilan’s terroir and people?

Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

Architects: Emerge Architects & Associates
Project: Opening Row House
Location: Toucheng District, Yilan, Taiwan
Photography: Studio Millspace
Software used: Autocad
Architect in Charge: Sam Yang, Ally Chang, UZ Liu
Participants of Project: Ying-Chen Ling, Yen-Yao Lin
Approved Building Inspector: Si-Kan Ke
Structural Engineer: K.C. Structure Engineering Office
Hydropower Engineer: Hoyai Electrical Engineer

Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

Construction Cost
- Architecture: 10,000,000 NTD$
- Electrical Engineering: 1,600,000 NTD$
- AC: 300,000NTD$
- Interior: 2,000,000 NTD$
- Landscape: 200,000 NTD$

Site Area: 184.04 sqm
Construction Area: 107.51 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 261.82 sqm
Years of Design: July,2012- May,2014
Years of Construction: Sep,2014- July,2016

Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

Strategy

Within 6*30m site, we propose three approaches in our design. First, by imputing an “Open Rain-sound Courtyard”, which serves as the spatial core. Second approach was to develop the “relative high-rise” comparing to lower rural houses, each level is planned with a “three dimensional living patios”, potted and functional for activities as well. Lastly, in the mid of a city lacking of open space, we aspire to elevate our rooftop garden as a new ground, suitable for watching the stars and listening to the ocean in urban solitude.

Meanwhile, “To Open and To Connect” is the strategy to answer the proposition.

– Ground level opened to the street: Originally the garage, now reassigned to be part of public arcade for passersby, also for activities in the rain season.

– Continuous courtyards: Each unit has a garden courtyard, with further plan linking them to form an ecological corridor.

– Back alley open space: Kitchens are opened to the back alley, or lively alley, comprising vegetable gardens and outdoor Culs-de-sac become a community space for neighborly events.

Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

– Rain-sound open courtyard: Life and space both spread from the center courtyard, where to perceive Yilan’s rain and the subtle change of season.

– Atrium to connect spaces and activities: a continuous curvy ceiling, fir-wood plate molded concrete, makes up the atrium. The atrium connects kitchen-dining room on the first floor, living rooms, hallway library, and a 3.5 m-deep semi-outdoor space on the second floor. By connecting the spaces, the atrium also gathers the activities in the house. For house shrine on the third floor, 2-story high book wall and a tearoom on the fourth floor, another huge slope roof covers all. An open riser staircase ventilates the house vertically and exhales the heat out.

– Facing the road [outward], hollow brick façade gives a sense of ambiguity, and serves as frontier against typhoon. Facing courtyard and back alley [inward], vast openings let enjoyable sunshine and greenery in. Obscure outward but open inward, is a statement of attitude for new urban living.

– An ecological pond, a vegetable farm in the backyard and a roof garden with esculent growth, are the natural touches proposed in the urban life.

Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

Metaphors and Symbols

On Yilan Plain, Toucheng village shows traits of vernacular landscape: glossy shingle beach, cuesta rocks, aged alleys, ancient arcades, endless paddy field, pitched roof, rooftop additions, washed granolithic finishing, red bricks, corridors, housing courtyards, and potting sheds… All remerged in a new form in the building.

Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

Image Courtesy © Emerge Architects & Associates

: Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

: Image Courtesy © Studio Millspace

Contact Emerge Architects

Tags: Taiwan, Yilan

Categories: Apartments, Autocad, House, Residential

This entry was posted on Monday, February 11th, 2019 at 6:08 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.