Row House with a Column
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2022
This is a renovation project of a 40-year-old row house residence with a site width of 3.9 meters, a depth of 14 meters, and an area of approximately 55 square meters. As a main type of urban street housing in Taiwan, the row house residence has a unique front facade facing the city, which links the interior space and expresses the posture of a residence facing the city. We expressed its typological order through the plan, section, and the key facade, seeking an appropriate posture between closure and openness, similarity and difference with adjacent row houses, while linking the scale relationship of the internal longitudinal space.
The original and new split-level floors are organized into a new whole through a 90-centimeter-deep skylight space. The staircase connecting the skylight becomes a key element in organizing daily living and moving through space. The difference in scale between the split-level floors and the internal and external openings creates a sense of distance and a feeling of long-distance space. Each space maintains its independence while also maintaining a certain degree of separation from the noisy and chaotic street, thus producing a higher level of residential privacy without being completely enclosed. The multi-layer semi-permeable interface reconnects these long-distance spaces together. The fragmented elements exhibited by the beam-column structure, staircase, handrail, and floor in the space extend inward from the external mixed urban scenery. Facing the small site area of urban row house residences, we attempted to propose a more proactive way of adjusting space to increase the quality of living space.
基地為面寬3.9公尺，深14公尺，面積約55平方公尺的四十年舊街屋住宅重新整建。街屋住宅作為形塑台灣城市街道樣貌的一種主要類型，有著唯一面對都市的正立面，它連結內部空間，同時表現一棟住宅面對都市的姿態。我們透過建築平面與剖面以及此關鍵立面表達其類型的秩序感，它連結內部長向空間的尺度關係，在封閉與開放、與鄰棟街屋相似與差異之間尋找一種恰好的姿態。
新舊錯層的樓板透過一個90公分深的採光天井空間組織成為一新整體，樓梯連結天井成為組織日常起居，於空間中移動的動態經驗的關鍵要素，錯層樓板與內外開口尺度的差異拉長了距離感，產生長距離空間的感受，各空間保有獨立性，亦與吵雜混亂的街道保持一定程度的區隔，因而產生較高的居住隱私卻不完全封閉；多層半穿透介面同時將這些長距離空間重新連結一起。空間中梁柱結構、樓梯、扶手與樓板所展現片段化的元素則是外部混雜都市風景的向內延伸。面對基地面積不大的都市街屋住宅類型，我們嘗試提出更積極的空間調整方式，增加居住空間品質。
Location : Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Program: Residence
Design: 2019
Completion: 2022
Photo: Studio Millspace
業主 :私人
基地位置 : 臺灣高雄市
主要用途 : 住宅
設計時間 : 2019
完工時間 : 2022
攝影 : 揅空間工作室