URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AT TAINAN MAIN STATION AREA BY MAXTHREADS

Second prize winning vision for the Urban Redevelopment Project at Tainan.

Designed by Maxthreads, their strategy attempts to contribute to Taiwan’s economic diversification from its current infrastructure lead planning system.

Tainan main station master plan is imagined as a cultural based community and nature intervention, with sustainable residential development and the potential for natural habitat areas.

It aims to be a cultural and vibrant edutainment intervention as well as a secluded haven of peace and tranquillity.

Tainan main station is conceived as a new gateway of Taiwan’s history. The proposal aims to reconcile community and biodiversity.

It will act as an eco-transitional urban device, transferring and linking the diversity of the surrounding urban districts and programmes.

The concept behind the master plan proposal derives from the area’s original function as transportation node.

The proposal will maintain the areas historical identity, whilst providing a boundary free and a self-sufficient urban planning, incorporating a number of sustainability systems.

Location: Tainan, Taiwan

Architects: Maxthreads

Project Team: Max Yang, David Millar, Samya Kako

Competition Organizers: Bureau of Development Tainan City Government, Taiwan (R.O.C.) & INTA (International Urban Development Association)

Prize: Second Prize

INFILTRATED CULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL URBANISM BY MAXTHREADS

“The proposal is to infiltrate and to re-conceal community and bio-diversity from its historical pattern. The Concept master plan finds fundamental inspiration in the strong historical identity of the railway line, and the identity of historical industrialisation background of Kaohsiung city.

The development is inspired by the culturally and biologically responsive between the new city urban fabric and existing old town Yen Chan district. The guiding principle of the master plan proposal is to inspire a meaningful sense of community and a shared commitment for social and environmental responsibility.

The proposal also introduces a series of urban agriculture farming and historically integrated parks. The strategy is to infiltrate and to conceal the community and biological diversity from the nearby Wan Shu Mountain. It also reflects the historical transformation of Kaohsiung city from industrial city to a contemporary cityscape.” Description of Maxthreads.

Stage: Competition entry. Honourable mention. Kaohsiung city urban planning department 2011

photo - text: Courtesy of Maxthreads