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2CWL architects

Architecture, interior and graphic design. Valencia, Taiwan

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Hotel Valencia 2020

Interior design project w/ Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, MArch Valencia 19/20

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Shelter Aomori 2020

Drawing Architecture Workshop w/ Estudio Agraph, MArch Valencia 19/20

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Baralha Fortress Monastery

The Memory of Monk 2020

Walking on the pedestrian path in Cape Espichel, I reach the top of São Domingos da Baralha fortress. A modest architecture coexists with the ruins. To the left of the dilapidated arch, there is a concrete ramp leading to the first look-out point. While the thick wall is getting higher, I feel sunken into the ground. A bench is right designed to sit down for the gaze at the first light from the sea.

Before going down to the monastery area, there is a small sign in the space, where the rocks come through the concrete, to separate the people who just visit. I feel serene when I go down to the dining area. A wood frame of the sliding door just captures the view of the powerful natural scenery to emphasize the landscape of the Atlantic coastline. If you go closer, you can feel the ruins up out there.

The space of the kitchen, storage cabinets and cells of the dormitory are for four people. There are also shared bathrooms on the opposite of the aisle. To the end, there is a meeting area with a similar view from the look-out point face the cliff.

Back upstairs, a narrow long ramp tunnel is built under the ground leading to the inner space surrounded by concrete walls to feel the intimacy of the space. The only opening is where the skylight comes through and changes as the time pass away.  

After the inner space and out of the towering cliffs, you can find another exit to the lower part of the fortress ruin, here is another sight of the expansive ocean views. Baralha Fortress Monastery incorporates with the remains, create a new experiencing route to the second look-out point, where Chã dos Navegantes could be seen.

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House M 2019

Interior Design, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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Inujima Guest House 2019

In order to fully expolre landscape of the island, the idea came up that guest houses spread around the south of the island. Meanwhile, the visitors came to inujima are always stay within aone day. If they can stay one more night, it is better both. In that case, we design three guest houses wi th specific topics and two service spaces-dining room and sento-which can be used by the locals too. 

The topics of the guest houses generate from the island itself, whether from the heritage or the special views, which are villa woods, villa ocean and villa pond. And to minimize the impact of our houses to the nature, we keep our the houses at a very small scale - just one bed and one toliet. 

The scale of the island allows the visitors to wake up at guest houses and eat breakfast at the dining room, which is just a few meters. And before night comes, the visitors can bath at the sento, and then go along the coast to the rooms by the sunset, and enjoy different nights at those guest houses. 

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Ic Advanced Architectural Design Workshop 

Supervision: Sejima Kazuyo, Elding Lars Jonas Hugo, Francesca singer, Setti Giulia 

Collaborate w/ Chen Chi + Song Huai-yuan

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The Interlace 2019

How to input a big infrastructure that can Integrate into the place, without destroying the natural landscape, culture, historical context? 

The project remodel farmland as a public area to connect the relationship between two sides of the Var river. Our goal is to integrate the existed farmland and museums. In the first step , we mapping the traces, voids, limits. It can be defined as the one curved line, one side is forest to continue the bio diversity form the valley, another side a re artificial farmlands. Three straight lines connect to the other side of theriver. The Var river is under transformation, from the agricultural land to the populated city. The process of changing somewhat can be lost the identity of the place. Fur thermore , the site is located on empty land, it can easily become a huge building that is unrelated to the land. Through analyzing typologies and references in nice, the project can narrate the history in Nice. 

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Final Design Studio (Thesis Design)

Supervision: Bertelli Guya Grazia Maria, Vanetti Dario 

Collaborate w/ Song Huai-yuan

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Farm to Table Apartment 2019

TRAA competition

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The Enter 2018

A pavilion project collaborated with Shen Ting Tseng Architects, located in HsinChu Park, Taiwan

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Lifted Courtyard 2018

Competition for Young Bird Plan 2018 On the Frontier

Songji Village has a very high rate of forest coverage. We aim to make this 70 square meter small toilet as a medium between the environment allow people to close the nature, at the same time, integrating into the local landscape. 

Court yard: the space of the scheme comes from the traditional court yard space, which distinguishes between private and public spaces. In our design, the court yard space forms a semi-outdoor space, as of embrace the forest. People can not only rest but chat inside it . 

Topography: the design preserves the original landscape and topography.The use of bamboo-like structures to suppor t the pavilion, which helps to prevent the moist from the ground, and creates interest ing corrido rs in to the forest . Furthermore, the floor has an interesting 40cm gap between original topography, like"engawa", lightly putting a natural stone as steps, people can walk into the forest and experience nature. Material: Lear ning from the color of the local housing, which are white walls and green black roofing tiles. Consequently, we use blue and black steel roof and white wal l with structural wood. 

Collaborate w/ Chen Chi

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Envisioning San Siro 2018

San Siro is one of the largest public housing districts in the city of Milan, In our site, built between 1935 and 1947. Nowadays, some rooms are abandoned. There are some fragile populations, such as the elderly, often alone and people with serious psychiatric illnesses. Even the housing stock, often in conditions of severe degradation, is an important cause of fragility for San Siro. 

Because of repeated original plan and monotone housing units. The project explores the main 3 typologies that can adapt to various families, to create diverse communities. Besides, we opened part of the ground floor as an open space that allows people to communicate and know each other. Linear functional concrete core to support the floors, and extended terrace and wooden door, which can adjust the sunlight. 

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Collaborate w/ Song Huai-yuan

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Learning form Palladio- Phase 1

Vertical Courtyard 2017

The project aims to adopt central space which is applied in Villa Carnaro. The central space contains 4 elements, 1. the central space is surrounded by small rooms, 2. four columns define the public space, 3. penetration from front to back, 4. the space of entry is compressed. 

The heavy shearwall structure surrounds the hemispheric slab, which is supported by “井” shapes beam with 340cm hight. In the surrounding of the plan, vertically connected by 4 spiral stairs, and each same floor plan is inverted at ninety-degree angles. Each floor contains 2 terraces which do not only allow wind, light to pass through, but the view can extend into the landscape.The central space is public space of this building. Space is multifunctional. The split-level floor can distinguish the public from private, at the same time, it boosts connection between vertical layer.

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Casa de Té 2017 Interior renovation, Taipei

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Material Cycle 2015

Educational system from 3 heritable concepts: to plant, to shift, to rebuild. 

4,700 people live on Koto Island today. Before 1945, Yami people are taught orally by seniors. Ironically, the current educational system is the same as that of Taiwan. Consequently, Yami tribe's knowledge of nature is gradually reducing, thereby diminishing community values, traditions, and cultural identity. 

Therefore, W propose providing the local people of Koto Island with a school that emphasises cultural experience. W have chosen a majorst ream on the island to demonst rate this idea by recounting the spirits of ancestors on Koto Island in increments of 18 years (cycle of tree growth). The purpose of this proposal is to show and experience a natural cycle that has been followed and respected by the people of Koto Island for centuries. For example, they plant one tree and wait for it to grow every time they cut one down. 

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The Archipelago Project 2015

“The Archipelago Project” is a thesis project concerns about “city research” and “architecture design”. Through the practice between research and design, turn the “City within the city: the Green Archipelago”, which proposed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1978, into an operative design process. Then apply this process to Tainan city due to the emerging issue, the third industrial revolution, in contemporary city. This thesis project provides a discussion between city and architecture in the history and contemporary situation. 

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There are five phases in this thesis:

1. City As Project

2. City within the city: the Green Archipelago

3. The Archipelago Project

4. Tainan: the Third Industrial Revolution City

5. Discussion Between city and architecture in 1960s and 2010s