In 2014, Architerior, a creative design group of Taiwan, held an exhibition embodying the concept "Next Play- Taipei Green Factory," in which through architectural installations and a series of workshop activities. 

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This event turned the railway abandoned space Huashan Grand Green into a civic place, an open-air theatre, and a community platform where people were welcome to join in farming together. 

During the process, the people experienced, experimented, created, and demonstrated a new picture of the city where plating and farming as part of the urban life.

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The design of the pavilion for the Green Factory infuses the concept of urban life interacting with the social interaction in the landscapes. 

Here community people can participate and plant vegetables in the public garden, which acts as a green base that inspires more city residents to become urban farmers. The place as the site for recreation, laboring and production. 

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Image © Kuomin Lee

Image © Kuomin Lee

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Along the spatial sequence of a linear extension, transformation, and unveiling, the Green Factory converts the form of industrial green into a multi-level public courtyard - a field of green living that incorporates physical labor, the transfer of knowledge, the sharing of experiences, and interactive social links. Indeed, an alternative type of cityscape is constructed in which people can relax and enjoy a garden environment. 

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In the site of industrial heritage, the architect proposed a design concept of tectonic dialogue. Its structural plate elements consist of standard freight decks commonly used in the shipping, which are converted into tectonic space in the design. 

The composition of the plates creates a porous interface for interior and exterior spatial interaction. Through the interaction between the layers and the lighting environment, the rough feel of the material is merged with the elegant poetic space.

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Project facts

Project name: Green Factory

Location: Huashan 1914 Creative Park, No.1, Sec.1, Bade Road, Taipei

Design year: 2013

Complete year: 2014

Design firm: Architerior Architects & Associates

Architect: Yuchang Liang, Daren Cai, Mingjet Wu

Project team: Yuchen Zao, Jengrung Hong, Yishan Xue

Curator: Huichen Wu

Contractor: Yixing Construction

Photography © Kuomin Lee unless otherwise stated

All images courtesy of Architerior

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