Urban Nomad

Tamkang University Department of Architecture
4th year design studion / C-LAB
T-Factory, Sanjhih, Taiwan

Urban Nomad / Student Yu-Chen Chiu:

Urban Nomad vehicle in transport mode.

Crossing the distance from Danshui to Sanjhih in the Taipei County.

Shelter-mode in the T-Factory ruin, Sanhih.

Section of the shelter. Low-tech Transformers. The front-wheel is moved to a natural ventilation divice on top.

Urban Nomad architecture.







Scooter battery that is recharged during the bicycling and powering a light and laptop during the camping.

Urban nomad taking shelter in the ruins.

Yu-Chen is continuing to work with C-Laboratory as one of the researchers in the Jong-Hua Road station.

Ultra Ruin

Design studio for Masters Class 1, Tamkang University Department of Architecture, Taiwan.

Design classes in the Danshui campus and field-work at the T-Factory ruin in Sanjhih, Taipei County.

The students were required to realize 1:1 scale personal shelters as their reaction to the ruin environment and live in these cocoons of architecture as a community.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature. With this studio I wanted to ruin the students.

One has to die a bit to be reborn.

C-Lab for Ultra Ruin 2007:

Eric "Urban Nomad"


Yung-Yung


Joker


Clare


Sean "Bagworm"


Nikita Wu & Marco Casagrande

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Construction site / ruin.







































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Students' thinking:



Joker.











Yung-Yung















Clare







Eric















Sean