Architecture Design Design Landscape Design New Discovery of the Year

BEYOND THE BOUNDARY OF BINARY OPPOSITION

Yu-Hao Chen

International Awards
・Architecture Master Prize (United States) / Urban Design – Winner
・Architecture Master Prize (United States) / Installations & structures – Winner
・Young Visionary Architecture Competition 2021 (U.K.) / Urban Design Award – 1st runner up
・CBDX: B(OR)DERL(AND)S (Canada) – TOP 25 Finalists

The project redesigned and re-planned the slum dwelling units by extending the original tightly packed houses with winding paths in a vertical direction, in exchange for more open spaces in the slum, while retaining the original privacy and convenience, and these open spaces are distributed between the city and the slum in exchange for border compatibility, thus blurring the binary border between the new town and the slum.