new interpretive grounds

The Sanheyuan, structures on three sides of a courtyard forming an inverted U-shape, is the most common Taiwanese traditional building type. Xinzhuangzi, a historical village in Taichung comprised of countless Sanheyuans, once was a critical spot for farming but gradually lost its glamour. Around 80’, a new type of raw housing started to emerge enormously everywhere in Taiwan that has also fiercely damaged the context in Xinzhuangzi. The project proposes new community and housing space prototype that regulates both the traditional and contemporary trends to tune a more smooth tone along both its past memory and future evolvement.