TING-YU LING
The cater house - The building is designed for a community chairperson and her family to accommodate. The form of the building is produced by three repeating systems: semi-circles, diagonal lines, and horizontal lines.
The site of the building is located right next to the pedestrian area. There is a public zone in front of the site, and behind it is another private housing building. There’s also a food garden across the street in the nearby area.
The first-floor plan - The first floor includes spaces that are relatively private, such as bedrooms and a bathroom. It also accommodates a whole food production chain at the backside of the building. The kitchen in the middle is not only for private use, but it also produces food for the whole community. It connects to the prep room and the buffet on one side and opens to the garden on the other side. The backside of the building thus became a connection between the garden(food source) and the porch culture(where people come and get food).
The second-floor plan - This floor includes programs that are between public and private. It consists of a small library and a workshop that allows a few people to occupy. There’s also a balcony that occupies the parameter of this floor and surrounds the inner programs. It also provides an opportunity to interact with the people in the pedestrian area and the nearby public zone.
The third-floor plan - The entire third floor is an open-roof garden. It acts as another food source and a resting area for the people in the community to use.
The long section - This section shows that how the stairs act as a core that connects all the floor plans in the building. The staircases are opened on the top so the sunlight can shed in. Plus, the material in the staircase also differs from the other walls. Therefore, a visual transition is produced when people try to reach the other floors.
The elevations - The exterior walls provide different extend of protection based on the programs on each floor. The programs become more public from the bottom to the top. Thus, the cover of the exterior walls also decreases gradually. The side walls are also slanted to produce multiple levels of security on the same floor.
The axonometric diagram shows how the different systems interact to form the spaces in the building.
The images above show the different perspectives of the physical model.