Port of Kaohsiung Passenger Transportation District | Port and Curise Service Center | Taiwan | Maxthreads

Our task is to create a international gateway not only for the port and cruise service centre as the entry and exit point, but also for local public leisure activities. The intimate interconnected relationship created between port and cruise service centre and general public by revisiting port operational event is the key element of urban integration.

We propose to fuse adjacent international, local tourists, public transportation, education, and culture events together. Such as the next by love river riverside walk, Kaohsiung Maritime cultural popular music centre, Kaohsiung national library and Singuang ferry wharf to its waterfront. In order to cultivate in depth transiting experience to the city and serves as an extraordinary visiting venues for the public anchor at the city waterfront gateway axis in the future............more

Airport Design | Terminal 2 | Mexico City Airport | Row Studio

The proposal for the terminal comes from the most efficient layout for the land positions and the boarding gates. To achieve important savings on the construction costs the building adapted almost completely to the existing platform, thus avoiding its expansion which represents an immense cost for airports.........more

Port and Cruise Service Center | Kaohsiung |Taiwan | Kubota Bachman

Kaohsiung is the largest industrial harbour centre of Taiwan.
The Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Centre is located in the heart of this industrial harbor. It is a place of departure and arrival of national and international passengers.It constitutes the very face of Taiwan and therefore it should reflect Taiwan’sculture at its best........more

Architectural Design Competition | Kaohsiung Marine Gateway Terminal | Asymptote Architecture

The new Kaohsiung Marine Gateway Terminal designed by Asymptote is a new state of the art transportation interchange, an urban destination with both terminal and public facilities including exhibition and event spaces for the people of Kaohsiung as well as for national and international visitors. The project transforms the site from its industrial roots into a dynamic urban hub and a global gateway that bring a powerful and electric experience to the city 24 hours a day.

The port terminal as envisioned by Asymptote is designed to invigorate and activate Kaohsiung’s city edge at the water. The port terminal extends the urban realm from the center of Kaohsiung to the city’s waterfront and connects this new urban space with the vitality of the future Pop Music Center and other public recreational and commercial activities that are to be located along the planned park at water’s edge.........more

Shanghai Subway Stations | Shanghai | China | Praud

The stations presented is an example of the repetitive system used to house subway stations and exits across the city of Shanghai in order to create a new typology. The building becomes recognizable as a subway exit by means of its architecture rather than its symbols. The structural system used is also a repetitive system that can be adapted and fabricated depending on the scale of the site. Some sites present the opportunity for larger buildings, others allow only for a subway exit pavilion.......more

Open International Architecture + Urban Design Competition | Aerial Metro Station | Miami | David Tajchman

fluid miami - aerial metro station is a concept proposal for a new station in downtown miami, designed by architect david tajchman. his design is meant to provide the city's centre with an elevated public transportation system and metromover situated on the north edge of museum park. the hovering futuristic hub can be accessed by car and foot. the streamline biomorphic form of the station is a seamless tunnel which includes circular cut-outs throughout its roof and sides to let natural sunlight into the space. its undulating base alleviates traffic flow by allowing people to pass below the station's structure rather than only around it. (words from designboom) place: miami, united states of america
programme: new station for downtown miami’s elevated public transportation system, metromover, on the north edge of museum park
year: october 2009
area: 500 m2
client: dawntown miami
architect: david tajchman

Airport Terminal Shenzhen, China By David Jaubert

Shenzhen, China - This project is an investigation of the shed typology and the inherent implications of repetition in relation to the airport concourse. The project asserts that a modular flexibility can extend the intelligence of the shed through a methodology in which variation responds to a set of architectural criteria through various systems of correspondence. The issue of variation is addressed through the identification of two structural systems and the concourse's ability to benefit from their different performances and affects. Through the use of a flexible folded-plate hybrid base unit that can vary to transmit structural loads in both one-way and two-way directionalities, the project seeks to find congruencies between the two systems which are similar but posses inherently different topologies. A cohesive whole is achieved through a system of propagation that employs the iterative variation of parts to mediate between the two systems.

The part-to-whole relationship informed from a bottom-up approach allows for a library of units, each with unique characteristics, to be applied to different areas of the concourse. By identifying all of the performative and affective conditions beneficial to the concourse such as orientation, viewing, natural lighting and structural span, a taxonomy of base units is developed that can be combined together to form derivative units that respond simultaneously to different conditions. The systems of correspondence allow for a terminal in which a cohesive and synthetic relationship is formed through the resultant concourse's ability to adapt and respond through variation to given sets of performative and affective conditions....visit David Jaubert

FissurePort ,Port Terminal, Kaohsiung,Taiwan By Biothing

Fractals are frequently used to calculate coastline behavior, given the different degree of “roughness” and multiple orders of scale found in natural coastlines. ||Fissures plays resonates the idea of such complex articulation within the tectonics/aesthetics of the building. Algorithms driving tectonic fabrics within a project have embedded elasticity in relationship to fineness.
Fabric of architecture is highly heterogeneous, structured through rapid phase shifts, unfolding multiplicity of parallel environments within a single building. Instead of creating seamless topological continuum typical for the passenger terminal typology, traveler is exposed to a series of different experiences and protocols carried through the strong vertical fissures. Different atmospheres/programs/experiences/temperatures/light conditions…
Cliff formations found along many coastlines (including Kaohsiung outer coastline) are resonated through strong vertical fissures of the building. In order to accommodate large volume of requested program needed to be organized within a site, internal fissures _ a blade-like tectonic elements shredding through the site, are introducing internal landscape elements with various organizational and sustainable properties. These tall narrow “canyons” are simultaneously light wells for the building as well as strong shading elements, providing abundance of light throughout the building yet preventing overheating.
Waterside arrival sequence is accentuated by the strong “fissure” facade with deeper folds as receptacles for jetways for arriving and departing passengers. Tidal fluctuations and arrival of larger boats creates water movements and wave crushing against the seaside facade of the building. Passengers are transferred into the building through the first fissure sequence which is also a cooling water garden for the terminal. The proportions of extremely long and tall space with “canyon-like” glazed surfacing produces very rich poly-dimensional experience _ a crystalline fabric.
The nature and quality of different fissures as they progress from the street to the sea side changes from the very opaque (perforated metal mesh or glass-fiber reinforced concrete), through semi-opaque office fissure facades (combination of glazing and perforated metal mesh), to the very light glazed double sequence towards seaside, opening wide vistas to the sea through its wrinkled glass fabric.
High Resolution Infrastructure//Signaling::Intricacy of tectonic elements allows for embedding distributive and redundant signaling through lighting systems that can coordinate faster and more legible distribution of passengers. LED light systems embedded into floors/ceilings could be programmed to respond to increased crowd movement or time base sequences corresponding to arrivals and departures. At the same time they constitute material qualities of environments _ a slowed down lighting storms embodied into fabric of architecture or artificial weathers captured within a building...visit Biothing