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- Architects: Dotze Innovations Studio
- Location: Taiwan
- Architect In Charge: Tze-Chun Wei
- Design Team: Zhi-Rui Haung, Chi-Fung Yeh, Zhe-Xun Yang, Chun-Li Wang
- Area: 1132.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Tze-Chun Wei
- Collaborators: ARJR Architects, iTemdesign, Ospace Architects
- Contractor: Tze-Chun Wei, ARJR Architects
- Structural Engineer: Wu-Long Huang
- Interior Design: Tze-Chun Wei
- Lighting Design: Vivie Lin
- Construction Consultants: Zhi-Rui Haung, Yu-Cheng Tang
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This is an ambitious project for a 3-generation family in Changhua, Taiwan. The site is located on the roof of an existing one-story factory building.
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The initial idea was to create a contemporary Chinese courtyard house with a “回” shaped volume, a layout with individual living units and shared family spaces. They are connected by a looped corridor and separated by small light wells.
Diagram
“Sky-Voids” are distributed in the corners of the building to provide natural lighting and ventilation and are designed as individual small courtyards.
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Exploded Axo
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“Inner-View” is the idea of creating private garden views for the occupants’ pleasure and blurs the visual boundary between inside and outside.
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Plan
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Big glazing facing the central courtyard is designed and “Sky Voids” provide inner-views of the garden. This is a project trying to re-define a modern Chinese courtyard house and explore how space can be divided individually but stay closely connected
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