Circulation Center Under the Urban
People are parasites in the urban.
Beneath the surface of busy commerce and crowds live “our most familiar strangers.” Passing each other every day, people don't even know who they are. The crumbling and cramped place is their parasitic place and utopia. But after the flourishing, what they do circulates the whole place...
In Tunghai Villa, this overdeveloped place at the edge of the urban area, public space is particularly precious. Here live different ethnic groups lacking an opportunity to merge and to break down the psychological barriers between them. The design focuses on making the hidden seen.
Seasons change, circulation runs. Beside the night market, a self-sufficient four-season beverage factory, where the once disgusting food waste becomes a material for production, is created. Different ethnic groups work together. Those who were once neglected become the masters here, making the place reborn.
Beneath the surface of busy commerce and crowds live “our most familiar strangers.” Passing each other every day, people don't even know who they are. The crumbling and cramped place is their parasitic place and utopia. But after the flourishing, what they do circulates the whole place...
In Tunghai Villa, this overdeveloped place at the edge of the urban area, public space is particularly precious. Here live different ethnic groups lacking an opportunity to merge and to break down the psychological barriers between them. The design focuses on making the hidden seen.
Seasons change, circulation runs. Beside the night market, a self-sufficient four-season beverage factory, where the once disgusting food waste becomes a material for production, is created. Different ethnic groups work together. Those who were once neglected become the masters here, making the place reborn.
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