Media Student Architecture & Design Award 2018
Third Award | Category: Mixed Use
Architect: Tzu-Jung Huang
The conceptual project, entitled The Colouring Way, demonstrates
a strategy, able to transform the local economy and infrastructure in the
Taichung Central District, by proposing a utopian community that enables
residents to work and play together harmoniously. It aims to eliminate people’s
obliviousness of trivial but intriguing things in their daily life and
traditional industries, re-sparking their interest in social and cultural
events and regenerating this area simultaneously.
Taichung Central District, a multicultural city, used to be
a prosperous city with vigorous textile industries and a considerable number of
people in the 1960s. However, after the development of public services in the
Taichung Western District, the Central District quickly became a lifeless place
with lots of derelict houses and run-down areas, leading to the loss of its
heritage and cultural traditions. The Colouring way explores an alternative
dyeing factory typology with historic, cultural and symbolic icons in the city
which retains the local values and beliefs. According to experiential research,
it is clear that the local tourism and community cohesion are the keys to facilitating
social development and stabilising local economic structures in the long run.
With some dynamic iconic structures and tectonic components, the Taichung
central district would be filled with nostalgic warmth of the city, developing
cultural identity and drawing tourists’ attention gradually. The Colouring Way also
provides people with educational and recreational amenities which can bring out
everyone’s inner child and promote chance interaction. The quirky atmosphere
and enticing spaces would encourage people to take part in festive activities
and hunt out novelty, thereby inducing a feeling of well-being. Through such
participation, people are more able to relish the attractiveness of the
combination of modern and traditional matters, enhancing cultural identity development
and diverse enrichment. After twenty years, residents would decorate the city
with the iconic components spontaneously, inviting people to ‘The Colouring
Spree festival’.
With growing concerns regarding our cultural and
environmental challenges, this speculative proposal, a primary impetus, not
only accelerates the regeneration of the city but also promotes local beliefs
and social interaction with historical, cultural and spatial languages,
articulating the relationship between people and spaces from a more spiritual
and emotional scale.
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