30/10/2025
Work in progress –Taipei, Taiwan – Xinyi Children Welfare Housing Project
Our proposal is taking advantage of the existing little parcs, big trees and green areas, adding small public areas to complete and emphasize the idea of a continuous garden.
The urban arrangement becomes a sequence of small parcs, commercial areas, “public interiors,” courtyards and working areas connected by enlarged walkways, like promenades with trees.
Our buildings proposal is based on the relationship with the green surrounding areas, creating a sequence between green and buildings. We believe that the new buildings in the area can adjust the scale by fragmenting the volumes into smaller fragments to respond better to the human scale. The position of the new buildings and the relationship between them is an important factor in the spatial definition of the site.
The public art on the public areas adds another layer to the richness of mix activities and uses by adding elements of identity that make the neighbours enjoy their usual environment.
Our buildings will be part of the garden; they are like “big trees” that will provide shade, shelter and spaces for community relationship and activities.
They are shaped with curves at the corners to smooth the volumes and transform them into more organic elements of the landscape.
The social housing building is a lot more than housing. It is a combination of public exterior areas, shops, working spaces, houses and community spaces for all kinds of functions like library, public amenities, yoga classes, cooking lessons and kindergarten.
The building is a complex, alive and joyful community of people and activities that is transforming the whole neighbourhood.
The façade is a clean, sinuous surface wrapping the apartments and playing with different variations of openings—balconies, windows and terraces—to transform the buildings into living elements.
The green areas are not only at the lower street levels; terraces of the public spaces, balconies and rooftops are also part of the landscape definition of the project.
