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Chen House

in Architecture by Casagrande Laboratory
  contributed by 663 casagrande, 24 February 2010
Casagrande LaboratoryConstruction work: Marco Casagrande, Frank Chen, Shi-Ding Chen, Nikita Wu, Shu-Gi Bai Local Knowledge: Missis LeeLocation: Sanjhih, Taipei County, TaiwanSite: 3890 m2 farm land,...

Treasure Hill

in Architecture by Marco Casagrande ()
  contributed by 663 casagrande, 24 February 2010
Legalizing an illegal community of urban farmers enclave in Taipei City by means of architecture, participatory planning and environmental art. Now the formerly illegal settlement of Treasure Hill...

chinatimes.com.tw

Decades ago, when newspaper was the dominant medium, the design for a publishing office was machine-oriented, where location of equipments was the first priority, people and desks randomly shared the...

Chen House

in Architecture by C-Laboratory
  contributed by 323 World Architecture Festival , 6 September 2009
A light flexible family home designed to react to the demanding wind, flood and heat conditions on an cold cherry farm site.

Ruin Academy

in Architecture
  contributed by 663 casagrande, 6 October 2010
Ruin Academy is set to re-think the industrial city and the moden man in a box. It organizes workshops and courses for various Taiwanese and international universities including the National Taiwan...

Illegal Architecture

in Architecture by Hsieh Ying-chun ()
  contributed by 663 casagrande, 31 March 2011
My first assignment in Taipei was to work with illegal architecture trying to save the Treasure Hill community. This was also the first time that we worked together with Hsieh Ying-Chun and Roan...

Street Furniture Taipei

in Architecture by J.J.Pan and Partners
contributed by 323 World Architecture Festival , 1 November 2009
There are two ways an architect can help shape a city's image in a short period of time – one easy and common way is to build a large landmark building; yet a harder and more unusual way is to...

Chamber of the Post-Urbanist

in Interior by Marco Casagrande ()
  contributed by 663 casagrande, 4 March 2010
One has to die a bit to be reborne. City is dead, long live the compost. For my urban sins I needed Post-Urban Rehabilitation and for my sins they gave me one: the cave. Every time I wake up in...

Taipei from the River

in Urbanism by Marco Casagrande ()
  contributed by 663 casagrande, 31 March 2011
Marco Casagrande / Ruin Academy / 26.3.2011Taipei is here because of the river. The clear, drinkable water of the Keelong, Danshui and Xindian Rivers is still in the living memory of the ...

Air Tower Court-School of Architecture & Asian Music, National Tainan University of Arts

This is a viably energy-conscious school architecture with a large semipublic space. The cost of the construction was almost $40/square meter and it is keeping 28 centigrade degree inside against 36...