Portfolio Min-Shan, Tsai 2008-2012

Loction: Tainan, Taiwan02 Combining Blocks

Housing Community

Loction: Movable03 Recycle, Reuse, Respond

Expo Rest Station

Other Works

Exhibition Location : New York_Parsons The New School for DesignThe Sensori-motor CityWorkshop

Sketch & Painting

Loction: Tainan, Taiwan01 Rearrange Street House

Residential and Commercial Mixed-Use

CONTENTS

01 Rearrange Street House Residential and Commercial Mixed-Use

Loction: Tainan, Taiwan

2010

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The oldest crossroad was the earliest developed area in Tainan. With the flourishing business of this area, residents strove for the

space by the side streets to earn more opportunity, therefore, the architecture form of the street house appeared.

One of the most significant characters of the architecture form of the street house is long and narrow, sharing the same walls

between one and another, which is also a great limit to the usage of space.

With a transformed architecture form of the street house, there are freer usage for the street houses, allowing more kinds of

activities to happen in the same area and bringing new life to the original place and business.

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Tainan, as the earliest developed city in Taiwan, is a city with architecures built in different periods in the history.

One of the common type of architecture is street house, which was the shop-house type of building first introduced by the Japanese about

100 years ago. The street house is long and narrow, sharing the same walls between one and another.

Nowadays, there are still some typical street houses remain in Tainan. Some remains the original look, some are deconstructed, still some

are developed into new form. The developed form of street house is creating more usage to the spaces, and it also becomes a trend in Tainan to

reform the space of typical buildings while combining the ancient and present.

Typical Street House Architecture Form

Remaining Typical Street House in Tainan

condo1st inner space

-shop

-storage

ground floor

1st floor

2nd inner space

-residence (mutual)

-residence (private)

traditional form modern form

modern street houses- mutual wall- connected arcade area- shop & residence

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housing housing bakery storage theatre housing corner

West Side

bakery storage empty house narrow alley theatre ticket window corner

-with a continuous arcade but only a few shops-how to make theatre audience stay longer ?

Tainan Middle West District

the Oldest Crossroad in Tainan

Taiwan

Tainan was the first developed city in Taiwan, and there are many historic

spots in Middle West District of Tainan. The site lies at the oldest crossroad, the

earliest developed area in Tainan. With the flourishing business of this area,

residents strove for the space by the side streets to earn more opportunity,

therefore the most common architeture form here is street house.

parking area for rent shop housing housing

East Side

-empty space in corner use as parking area for theatre-how can it respond with the theatre in a closer way?

Site

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Strategy II-change direction-create new transition space

Strategy I-change size-pile up

Original

[theatre]-second-run theatre-still remains hand drawing movie posters

[bakery]-taiwanese traditional handmade bakery-over 100 years’ history

New

[gallery]-as a mutual space between business and housing -themes focus on videos and digital projects

[shop]-audiences can spend time before and after the movie-theatre-related and gallery-related shop

[studio]-accompanies with gallery-invite artists long stay and work with local

[restaurant]-accompanies with bakery-provide seats and take out service

Program

Space Strategy

Original Space Experience

-each house is like a tube (individual narraw and long space)-the only connection among them is the mutual wall-activities are blocked in each space

street level-entrance at street side-shops

upper level-belongs to resident-residence

Ground Floor Planscale : 1/800

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First Floor Planscale : 1/800

Second Floor Planscale : 1/800

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01 ticket window02 shop03 gallery04 bakery05 bakery kitchen06 storage07 bar08 bar balcony

02 shop03 gallery06 storage08 bar balcony09 theatre10 studio11 restaurant

08 restaurant balcony09 theatre13 theatre office14 sharing room15 individual room

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c-c’ Section scale : 1/800

b-b’ Section scale : 1/800B-B’ Section scale : 1/800

C-C’ Section scale : 1/800

A-A’ Section scale : 1/800 a-a’ Section scale : 1/800

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Second Floor -theatre office, studios living area-spaces are seperated

First Floor -theatre, gallery and studios-spaces are connected-modifiable usage

Ground Floor -bakery, gallery and shops-circulation enables more activities

Façade [in the day]scale : 1/800

Façade [in the night]scale : 1/800

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Ground Floor -bar and its balcony-half-floor difference in elevation

First Floor -restaurant and its balcony-half-floor difference in elevation

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Loction: Tainan, Taiwan

2008

02 Combining Blocks Housing Community

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Tainan

An-Ping

Taiwan

An-Ping is one of the oldest harbor in Taiwan, it is also famous forthe old

streets zone. The site of this housing community is in An-Ping district, and it’s

located by the river side which is near to the harbor.

Site

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Concept

6m × 6m × 3m W × D × H

1 UNIT

4 UNIT

service core

LEGO

- module

- structure

- stackable

- within 2 floors

- multiple joint possibility

-differs from orientations

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Lower Floor Upper Floor Lower Floor Upper Floor

Lower Floor Upper Floor Lower Floor Upper Floor

Lower Floor Upper Floor Lower Floor Upper Floor

Type A A-1 A-2

B-1 B-2

C-1 C-2

Type B

Type C

scale : 1/400

Type A A-1 A-2

B-1 B-2Type B

C-1 C-2Type C

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Ground Floor Plan

B1 Plan

unit seperated

floor seperated

as a system

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1st Floor Plan

2nd Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan

Loction: Movable

2009

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03 Recycle, Reuse, Respond Temperary Shelter

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TainanTaiwan

In Taiwan, people enjoy drinking tea everyday. Because of the weather and

the rapid city life, there are lots of tea shops providing cold and take-out drinks.

The drinking business became a part of Taiwanese life. In the high-density

area, the business competition between the tea shops is very intense.

Take Tainan city for example, in the denset area (East district and

Middle-West district), there are approximately 200 tea shops within 9 km². And in

the most competitive area, there are 7 tea shops in 100 meter of one road.

Due to the character of the drinking business--fast and take-out, the

disposible cups are widely used in tea shops. The materials of disposible cups

includes paper, plastics and polystyrene. Among the materials, plastic is mostly

used.

These materials are recyclable. If the cups are thrown as litter, they

occupied a lot of space and cause some environmental problems. On the other

hand, if they are recycled properly, the cleaners can pile them up.

Drinking Business and Disposible Cups

Site

1.5 billion 55000 CO2cups per yearr Tons ≒

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The concept of this temperary shelter is by using the disposible cups to remind people of the consumption of resources.

The other materials used in the temperary shelter are commonly used in Taiwan, including angle steel as structure, corrugated

sheet and canvas as roof surface and wire netting as wall. By using this materials, the temperary shelter can be built in a low

budget so it can be used as rest station for expo and other activities. And the other character of the construction of the

temperary shelter is module, and therefore it become a portable construction that can be build up and taken up to other

places.

Materials and Construction

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roof surface

canvascorrugated sheet

or

frame

wire netting

filling

plastic cup

structure

angle steel

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Exhibition Location : New York_Parsons The New School for Design

The Sensori-motor CityWorkshop

In the Sensori-motor City workshop, we had chances to work with teachers from the Drawing Lab Team in Parsons

The New School. The Drawing Lab team includes interdisciplinary teachers. We held the exhibition with the teachers.

Started from analyzing three directors’ films (Yasujirō Ozu, Godard , Cassavetes) and the results of the workshop in

Taiwan, and carry on with the form of the exhibition. We worked on arranging the gallery, rehearsing the actions of the

films, and drawing the movements and the space to simulate video camera.

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Yasujirō Ozu

Tracing Movements

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Godard

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Cassavetes

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Sketch &Painting

15CM x 10CM

Sketch 2012Travel_Amesterdam

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72CM x 60CM

Oil painting 2010Abstract