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TAIWAN ARCHITECTURE ANCHORED IN THE ROLLING AND PRECARITY

Taiwan, as an unstable island nation, has the power to influence global stability.

LANDSCAPE IN-BETWEEN: OBSERVATIONS ON URBAN SPACE IN TAINAN AMBIGUOUS SPACE

Explore how island nations survive and develop through spatial strategies amid globalization and geopolitical conflicts.

IMAGINING THE ALTERNATIVE RHYTHMS OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE OF TAIWAN

The contingency and uncertainty within landscapes have compelled architecture to shift and adapt according to its surrounding conditions.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SENSORI-MOTOR NON-BELIEF

Taiwan habitually believes in anything. This sensibility grew from both the geological accident of inhabiting a seismically shaky and typhoon prone island, strategically located between sea trading routes of Chinese, Japanese and Western empires.

NON-Belief

The belief built upon fictional realities has enabled human societies to organize and collaborate throughout historical evolution.

Taiwan Intelligens Of Precarity

The belief built upon fictional realities has enabled human societies to organize and collaborate throughout historical evolution.

EXHIBITION DESIGN: ROAMING IN THE LAGOON – ISLAND – ARCHIPELAGO – PENINSULA

The Taiwan Pavilion also showcases 12 research and operative models arranged in an encircling archipelago configuration around the rooms.

PROFILES OF TAIWAN INTELLIGENS

The exhibition features seventeen research operation models, showcasing the diversity of Taiwanese wisdom.

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BORDER ELASTICITY

As Tainan celebrates its 400th anniversary, “Border Elasticity” imagines a future linking National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)

Climate Justice

Rethinking the relationship between architecture and the environment from the perspective of thermal comfort to mitigate the temperature rise caused by human activities is a critical issue that urgently needs to be addressed.

Landscape In-Between

These landscape phenomena resist interpretation through a single lens, yet in the ambiguous spaces 'in between,' they present the unique and diverse facets of Taiwanese cities.

Mazu Techple

Taiwan, situated between the largest landmass and the largest ocean, has its beliefs and NON-Beliefs shaped by the Kuroshio Current and monsoons.

Liminal Void: Insurgent Ecologies of the Ruderal Landscape

These public spaces, seemingly ordinary voids in daily life, acquire a sense of unfamiliarity due to subtle dissonances, existing as liminal zones where the boundaries between use and neglect blur.

OLD TOWN - [RAILWAY STATION] - SCIENCE PARK

Recovering the originality of the place with a larger scale understanding of timeframes, urban development, national policy, andurban diversity.

Energy-Centric Architectural Thinking

The low-carbon era has arrived—how should architecture adapt?

Path of knowledge - Southern Branch of the National Central Library

This approach invites visitors to engage with the collection in a more personalized way, encouraging exploration andserendipitous discoveries, fostering a dynamic and flexible interaction with knowledge where users can curate their own paths,leading to an evolving, interactive library environment.

The Invisible Unveiled

The coexistence of collective and individual values is one of the urban space issues after the formation of democratic society.

Floating Memories: Spatial Translations and Cultural Regeneration of Matsu

The exhibition explores the redefinition of island boundaries and showcases the dialogue between history and innovation in spatial practices.