MUSEUM of TOMORROW明日博物館

JUT Foundation For Arts & Architecture忠泰建築文化藝術基金會

Taipei, Taiwan

2008.12

THEVERTICALVILLAGE©

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MUSEUM OF TOMORROW INTRO.

明日博物館簡介

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B 歷屆展覽 Past Exhibitions

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FLOWmarket HAPPY LIVING

The first wave of the “Museum of Tomorrow” exhibition projects includes the renovation of the abandoned

factories on the Civic Boulevard as the location for the exhibitions “the FLOWmarket” and “HAPPY LIVING”,

which relates the aesthetics of living to all walks of everyday life.

past exhibitions歷屆展覽

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B-1 展 1「the FLOW market」 2007/01/04 to 2007/02/28

the FLOW market 24

This exhibition shipped the controversial conceptual market in Denmark, “the FLOWmarket,” to Taiwan and

modeled it into a 24-hour open space where customers can actually shop. The minimal and simple packaged

imaginative merchandises represent the issues everybody in the modern world should pay attention to. These

issues include one’s relationship with oneself, with other people and even with all aspects of the planet Earth.

Purchasing these merchandises is to consume on a concept one affirms, it represents an action of support.

The FLOW market

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Imaginary merchandises

Museum shop

past exhibitions歷屆展覽

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B-2 展 2「Happy Living」 2007/03/22 to 2007/05/17

Akinori OISHI ANTOINE + MANUEL eBOY

Mart Guixé Filip Pagowski

This exhibition explored what are the so-called “ideal life” and “a home of happiness”. Internationally renowned

designers and illustrators reconstructed virtual residence houses to share their experience and expectation of

home. The participants include Akinori OISHI (Japan), ANTOINE + MANUEL (France), EBOY (Germany), Marti

Guixe (Spain), and Rei Kawakubo’s Polish designer Filip Pagowski. Through actual experience of the

joyfulness of spatial existence, spectators can explore more deeply into the meaning of “residence” in the

material-oriented modern society.

HAPPY LIVING

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Model house by Filip Pagowski Model house by ANTOINE + MANUEL

Talks and event

past exhibitions歷屆展覽

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B-3 展 3「Rice for Thoughts」 2007/08/16 to 2007/12/15

The third wave of the Foundation’s exhibition, “Rice for Thoughts”, is a combination of performance and

landscape art that is rarely seen in Taiwan. The land resource provided by the parent organization JUT Housing

Development Group is utilized by artist Lin Quan-Ju to play the role of artist and farmer simultaneously in the

high-prized Dazhi Miramir area, and to experience firsthand the life style of farming in sunny days and reading in

rainy days by the ancient Chinese literati. Through this hectare of land, the Foundation wishes to pass on the

life-force and affections originated from the soil and to exhibit the innate close relationship between human and

nature as well as the essence of people of letters in the modern age.

Rice for Thoughts - The field and the studio

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Artist Lin, Quan-Ju working in the field and in the studio.

Talks program in the studio

the city is calling for a STATEMENT?!

WHAT'S NEXT ??

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SITE LOCATION & CONDITIONS基地位置與條件

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Taipei City center The site is marked in green

A closer look The site is marked in green

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Taipei City center The site is marked in green

A closer look The site is marked in green

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C 展 4 徵選說明 The 4th exhibition brief

C-1 目標 Objective

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Concept Follow the concept of the Museum of Tomorrow , to propose a concept of an ideal life. The

outcome can be a mix of fluid or solid, erratic or stable, flat or three-dimensional.

Objective Without wide damaging the building structures above the land resource provided by JUT

Foundation’s parent company, the project seeks to transform, rebuild or linking the structures,

the land and the eco environment to reflect the cultural or historical elements of the local.

Audience General public and family audiences. It should be accessible and safe to all visitors.

Content Total or partial of the area should open 24 hours. It is suggested to contain a few of the following

contents: exhibitions, installations, multimedia interactive contents, and dynamic performances.

Visitors should enjoy the project in various aspects in order to roam, to learn, to interact, and

have fun.

C-2 基地位置 Project location

The project location is sitting on the intersection of the Songjiang Road and Nong-an Street. It is in the

northern part of Taipei city center and belongs to the Zhongsheng District of Taipei City. The farthest history

of this area can be traced back to the Ching Dynasty of the Imperial China 18th century . Currently this area

is under going a series of urban renovation. On the north side of the site is JUT Taipei Crown, a residential

project done by JUT GROUP in 2003. The site is also very close to the interchange of highway and the

Taipei Songshan Airport.

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C-3 基地環境 Project site

The site consists of legal and illegal concrete buildings, iron sheet structures and fences. Please see the

appendix for more photos.

A panorama view of the whole project site.

C-4 環境說明 Surrounding environment

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Project site

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JUT “Taipei Crown”

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Zhongshen District Administration Office

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Hsing Tien Temple

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Other office buildings

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Area map of the site with buildings specification

3D Ariel view of the site

Inside the red is the actual usable land area

usability of the area使用條件

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C-5 基本條件 Conditions

Dimension

36.8 x 91 2,415 sqm 730.5

36.8 meters x 91 meters / Usable area approx. 2,415 sqm 730.5 pin

Expect timeline

Subject to change

2008 9 2008 10 12 2.5

Land preparation September 2008

Exhibition October to mid December 2008 2.5months

Budget

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Land preparation and fees will be covered by JUT Foundation. Overall

expenses of the project, include curating, construction, and equipments

should not exceeding 4 millions NTD approx. 130,000 USD . PR,

marketing and publicities are not included.

Facilities requirement

Essential

Exhibition spaces

Event spaces

An administration center for JUT Foundation Staff and volunteers.

Optional

A souvenir shop

A café space

Other spaces and facilities can be proposed by the curatorial team.

Usability of the area

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See the following layout which shows the expected condition in

September 2008. Some of the current residents will move out before the

project starts.

Structures of concrete buildings can not be altered substantially.

Iron sheet buildings should be at least keep their roof tops. Signs

and fences can be removed or altered. All surface appearance of the

buildings can be changed.

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Area map of the site with buildings specification

3D Ariel view of the site

Inside the red is the actual usable land area

usability of the area使用條件

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CURATOR THEME策展主題

THEVERTICALVILLAGE©

THEVERTICALVILLAGE©

MVRDV

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THE MUSEUM OF TOMORROWEDITION 2009

JUT FOUNDATIONTAIPEI

The recent pressure on the East Asian cities has lead to an increasing demand of densification over the last decennia. It has made way to the construction of giant buildings that gradually replace and scrape away the small scale of more traditional, informal, individual, often ‘lighter’ types of architecture and urbanism: the Hutongs in Beijing, the small mostly wooden houses in Tokyo and now as well the individual houses in Taipei and other Taiwanese cities. These houses often form incredibly dense and socially highly connected communities. These urban villages combine density with enormous individual identities and dif-ferentiations. One can speak of urban ‘ecologies’. Can’t we find a way to combine the new demanded higher densities with these types of communities? Can we make maybe vertical ‚villages’?

The given plot of the Museum Of Tomorrow for the 2009 edition is exemplary for this development.An existing nice small scale community is threatened by the idea of being replaced by a potential monstrous tower. The mu-seum of tomorrow edition 2009 wants to discuss this tendency. How many of these urban villages, these informal urban settle-ments existed? And how many still exist? Which ones are threatened to disappear? Can we imagine another upgrade of these areas? Can we even densify these areas in such a way, that the casual informality can be combined with a higher density? What ideas can we make? What technology is needed? Does the individual approach lead to a better climate approach? Does it create housing types that, with the terraces and roof gardens, have more potential for leisure? Can it therefore attract also a middle or higher class? Can it create space for individual expression, identity and architecture in this way? Can it be combined with small scale offices and working places? Can we create a villa for everybody! In short: is informal urbanism possible?

We build an exemplary vertical village. Composed of houses that each want to demonstrate the possibilities of living in a vertical community.Each house absorbs parts of the researches indicated above. It leads to pavilions’ that show the different aspects of this pam-phlet. Together they make a promenade that wants to help to construct the dream of TheVerticalVillage© !

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SITE ANALYSIS基地分析

SITE AREA: 3300M2

site area基地面積

EXISTING BUILDINGS

existing buildings基地現有建物

RED LINE AREA: 2410 m2

red line area基地紅線面積

KEPT BUILDINGS

CONCRTET BUILDING/ USEABLE

IRON SHEET BUILDING/ USEABLENO ACCESSABLE TO THE ROOF

CONCRTET BUILDING/ NO USEABLENO USE RIGHT

kept buildings可利用建物

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EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES & RESEARCH SUBJECTS

展覽相關活動與展覽主題研究

ADVERTISING

1. advertising- media advertising by other collaboration parties- magazine (2009 June issue)

2. website news release

3.promotion-MoT website-DM-poster

4. government resource

-urban development bureau-culture bureau-tourism bureau

5. media-journalist-interview

PARTICIPANT

1. participant number

about 36 participants

-architecture students24 people

- architect/urbanist 6 people

- other culture/arts/his-tory related studies6 people

EXECUTION

1. basic info- 3-5 days-fee: 3000NTD-lunch+drinks-location: rent studio space and lecture room from university-computers: rent from uni-versity or spondsor

2. schedule

-lecture, interview, discus-sion, production, review, presentation(open to public)

RECORD / PUBLICTION

1. activity recording

- photography-video record

2. production

-book publication -TheVerticalVillage© logo design, related products(notebook and so on)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1. press conferenceannouncement for the collaboration of JUT & MVRDV, and workshop.2. “TheVerticalVillage©” open competition to public, 1 or 2 selected teams can join the workshop presentation.3. Workshop Final presentation. (open to public audience)

exhibition activity planning展覽相關活動規劃

MAIN EXHIBITION SPACE

1. SERVICE CENTER-info desk-JUT office

2. “TheVerticalVillage©”exhibitioncourator: MVRDVlocation: 9 small houses

3. WORKSHOP result

exhibits the workshop resultlocation: 1 house

4. urban development bu-reau exhibition(something related to Taipei)

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

each week MoT will invite one special guess to stay in the “hotel room” (one of the house). He or she will show the work or exhibition or have lecture during the exhibition period.

SHOP

1. RELATED PRODUCTS

-new design or limited edition with other compa-nies-own design products

2. JUT PRODUCTS

-new design or limited edition with other compa-nies-own design products

3. OTHER PRODUCTS

4. MOT SHOP

-MOT shop products-architect design cups-Vitra chair exhibition

5. MOT CAFE

NEIBOURHOOD PAR-TICIPATATION

1. YOUR VILLAGE

sale the module house and encourage residence build their own village.

2. YOUR GARDEN

encourage residences to adopted their own garden, and bring it home after the exhibition.

3. YOUR OTHER ACTIVI-TIES VIA INTERNET

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1. EXHIBITION OPENING + PRESS CONFERENCE -2009/11/14, location: at the courtyard of MoT exhibition site2. CONFERENCE -1 day, invite 6 international speakers3. OTHER LECTURES or EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES4. OUTDOOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE

“TheVerticalVillage©” exhibition planningexhibition period: 2009/11/14-2010/01/17

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Hypothesis“Is Informal Urbanism Possible?” curator text by Winy Maas

ScenarioTheVerictalVillage©

Informal urbanism in Asia (or in the world?) -Tokyo, Japan -Beijing, China-Seoul, South Korea-other cities?

Informal urbanism in Taiwan -focus only in Taipei -or with other cities?-Taichung-Kaohsiung

(content: photography, text, panel, or short film)

Mapping the Informal urban settlements -maps-analysis-photography-illustration-text

Mapping the Informal urban typologies -photography-illustration-text-analysis

Proposal 1Density issue -densify the current settel-ments-casual informality + higher density-quality upgrade

Proposal 2Program/ Function -urban ecology, roof garden-more potentials for leisure-new space for working and living-urban villa

Proposal 3Individual identity-individual expression-individual needs/desires-community and social connection

Proposal 4Technology -new technology-better climate approch-new material

Proposal 5Computation/ Internet

computation/internet based planning of individual houses

Proposal 6TheVerictalVillage©

conclusion

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TheVerticalVillage© Research SubjectsMuseum Of Tomorrow, JUT Foundation For Arts & Architecture

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PERSPECTIVE IMAGES透視圖

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MODEL IMAGES模型照片

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CREDITS參與人員

MVRDV

Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vrieswith

Hui-Hsin Liao, Riccardo Ferrari

2008.12 Rotterdam

2008.12

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