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ARC 2625 Internship Report
Name: Lim Jern Jack
Student ID: 0317139
Company: Bio-architecture Formosana (BaF)
Duration: 3 Jan 2017 - 10 March 2017
The Tower of Taipei Water Department (台北自來水事業處大樓與園區）:
I had participated in the company’s design competition of rebuilding the tower of Taipei
Water Department (TWD) in Da’an District. I was designated to design the lifts, emergency
staircases and ramps at the core, connecting from the basement floors to the upper floors.
Besides, the alteration of the toilet on the ground floor was to match with the design of the lift
in a form of symmetrical crescent-moon-shaped at the core. The circulation of the toilet was
a bit odd at first owing to the constant changing of the uplifted entrance slope adjacent to the
toilet and MEP room (mechanical, electrical and plumbing). As per request by TWD, the
building should represent them in an icon of a water droplet in any possible forms, either in
orthographic drawings or renderings. Therefore, the water droplet icon could be seen on the
floor plans at the core (from the top view) and the toilet (a basin at the male toilet). I was also
involved in discussions with the main architect of this project, AR. Zhang to comprehend
more about the idea of this project.
After that, I had participated in the process of diagram making. This included the form
iteration from the concept itself, introducing each space in the towers and axonometric
diagram of the basement levels where the parkings and the underground water reservoir
situated.
It was my opportunity to learn about the beginning process of idea exploration, form making
and spaces regarding the requirements given. The logo that they used is the logo of the
Taipei Water Department and it could be found on the existing site. In the beginning, the first
few levels were coped with the ground floor, extending the entrance towards the people that
might come from the MRT station and heritage spot adjacent to the site. There are 3 towers
in total. One of the towers is for the water department itself and the remainings are to rent as
offices that are connected with a sky bridge on the top floor. The final touch of the diagram
was to convey the necessity of giving back to nature by planting greenery on the site, both
facade and rooftop.
The presentation of the diagrams had been revised for a few times to be on a par with the
latest changes. I had also discussed with the presentation team about the colour schemes
and composition of the report and presentation slides.
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However, the landscape of this project was integrated with another company in order to get
an ideal outcome.
After revising the previous diagrams, the construction process were being drawn too. We
had discussed and confirmed the proper process with the head of technical department of
our company, Mr Weng. He suggested some necessary steps to be altered and the ways to
improvise our diagrams in order to make it more comprehensible. Understanding of the
process was a very precious lesson for me because construction techniques could vary from
project to project and the information we covered in class could not apply to every condition.
After all, I had the great opportunity to go for the presentation on 1 March 2017, competing
with other renowned architecture firms at the current Taipei Water Department office.
Ground Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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B1 Floor Plan has a similar floor plan with B4.
B2 Floor Plan has a similar floor plan with B3 surrounded by the water reservoir.
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Longitudinal Section
Short Section
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Concept Diagram
Space Diagram
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Construction Process Diagram
Axonometric diagram to highlight the significance of the museum.
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Green Smart City, ShaLun Town in Tainan District (沙崙綠能科學城）:
However before the presentation of the previous competition, my unit had started on a
competition which is building a smart city in Tainan District. It aims to develop a smart city
that drives with renewable energies, providing ‘Plug & Play’ demonstration field for green
technology manufacturers to educate the nation about the importance of green technology.
The macro site of this masterplan is divided into 6 microsites which are 600m away from the
Tainan High Speed Rail Station. The site we got was Site D which has a total land area of
74,400m2
. Yet, the brief had stated that the built area should be 70% reserved as a green
ecology park, and the rest area shall comprise public space, urban space, living lab, open
lab, research lab, photovoltaic station, laboratory building and a smart car park (300 units).
Therefore, I had done several case studies on urban spaces such as green spaces and solar
energy using spaces. For instance, Floating Solar Testbed in Singapore, Act Naturally by
all(zone) in Bangkok, Futuristic canopy made of Knitted Solar Panels in New York, D7 Sentul
and Perdana Botanical Garden Canopy in Kuala Lumpur.
I was involved in a few discussions before I had come to an end for this internship
programme. We had been studying and analysing the form and space arrangement that
could work the best on site.
Sketch Model
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Sketch Floor Plan
Draft Ground Floor Plan
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Award of Excellency by Taipei City Hall (台北市政府公共工程卓越獎）:
HuWei Cultural and Creative Park (滬尾職人文園區) &
XinDian Social Housing (新店區中央新村北側社會住宅)
These projects were held by Taipei City Hall, yet both sites are located in New Taipei, the
outskirt of Taipei City. In both of these projects, I was involved in different aspects, weather
analysis for HuWei Cultural and Creative Park, and floor plans alteration in the case of
XinDian Social Housing. Although both of the sites are located in New Taipei, HuWei is
actually situated at the north of Taipei City whereas XinDian at the south of Taipei City. I had
applied the technical skills that I learnt in class using the softwares to get the data, and
perceived the manner of urban sprawling in the north of Taiwan.
Weather Analysis using Revit (HuWei Cultural and Creative Park).
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Floor Plans distinguished with different colour tones (XinDian Social Housing).
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Construction Site Visit at the Hostel of National Taipei University of
Technology in Wanhua District, Taipei City (北科大宿舍）
From the site visit, I had learnt the basic knowledge of building basements, precautions
before pouring concrete on the slab and column, the setting of electrical and plumbing
systems, and so on.
Basement
Photos were taken by the Inspector after Inspection.
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Weekly Happy Hour Session:
The interesting part of internship was on every Friday in which a weekly happy hour session
will be held, inviting an architect or a speaker from other company or university to share their
previous projects and thoughts. I remember there was a local landscape architect graduated
from Harvard University who owns a landscape architecture firm called daVision. He talked
about his vision, ideas and thoughts about the field of landscape architecture in Taiwan and
the countries he had come across. He shared the process of his career that he proclaimed
himself as a pure landscape architecture as he studied landscape architecture since the
beginning of his study. He reckoned that he was somehow disappointed on the local projects
because people did not really appreciate what the landscape architects had contributed to
the locals. He hoped that he will be able to change the trend slowly, turning the mindset of
landscape architecture is only about greenery to build a better landscape and environment
for the nation.
Green roof is the most prevailing way to show the landscape.
Shed installation
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