JUT, Museum of Tomorrow, Winy Maas Architects and Danny Teal, LTD team up

1. THEVERTICALVILLAGE©
MUSEUM of TOMORROW
明日博物館
JUT Foundation For Arts & Architecture
忠泰建築文化藝術基金會
Taipei, Taiwan
2008.12

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3. MUSEUM OF TOMORROW INTRO.
明日博物館簡介

5. past exhibitions
歷屆展覽
B-1 展 1「the FLOW market」 2007/01/04 to 2007/02/28
the FLOW market 24
This exhibition shipped the controversial conceptual market in Denmark, “the FLOWmarket,” to Taiwan and
modeled it into a 24-hour open space where customers can actually shop. The minimal and simple packaged
imaginative merchandises represent the issues everybody in the modern world should pay attention to. These
issues include one’s relationship with oneself, with other people and even with all aspects of the planet Earth.
Purchasing these merchandises is to consume on a concept one affirms, it represents an action of support.
Imaginary merchandises
Museum shop
The FLOW market
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6. past exhibitions
歷屆展覽
B-2 展 2「Happy Living」 2007/03/22 to 2007/05/17
Akinori OISHI ANTOINE + MANUEL eBOY
Mart Guixé Filip Pagowski
This exhibition explored what are the so-called “ideal life” and “a home of happiness”. Internationally renowned
designers and illustrators reconstructed virtual residence houses to share their experience and expectation of
home. The participants include Akinori OISHI (Japan), ANTOINE + MANUEL (France), EBOY (Germany), Marti
Guixe (Spain), and Rei Kawakubo’s Polish designer Filip Pagowski. Through actual experience of the
joyfulness of spatial existence, spectators can explore more deeply into the meaning of “residence” in the
material-oriented modern society.
Model house by Filip Pagowski Model house by ANTOINE + MANUEL
HAPPY LIVING Talks and event
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7. past exhibitions
歷屆展覽
B-3 展 3「Rice for Thoughts」 2007/08/16 to 2007/12/15
The third wave of the Foundation’s exhibition, “Rice for Thoughts”, is a combination of performance and
landscape art that is rarely seen in Taiwan. The land resource provided by the parent organization JUT Housing
Development Group is utilized by artist Lin Quan-Ju to play the role of artist and farmer simultaneously in the
high-prized Dazhi Miramir area, and to experience firsthand the life style of farming in sunny days and reading in
rainy days by the ancient Chinese literati. Through this hectare of land, the Foundation wishes to pass on the
life-force and affections originated from the soil and to exhibit the innate close relationship between human and
nature as well as the essence of people of letters in the modern age.
Artist Lin, Quan-Ju working in the field and in the studio.
Talks program in the studio
Rice for Thoughts - The field and the studio
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8. the city is calling for a STATEMENT?!

9. ?
WHAT'S NEXT ?

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11. SITE LOCATION & CONDITIONS
基地位置與條件

12. have fun.
C-2 基地位置 Project location
The project location is sitting on the intersection of the Songjiang Road and Nong-an Street. It is in the
northern part of Taipei city center and belongs to the Zhongsheng District of Taipei City. The farthest history
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of this area can be traced back to the Ching Dynasty of the Imperial China 18 century . Currently this area
is under going a series of urban renovation. On the north side of the site is JUT Taipei Crown, a residential
project done by JUT GROUP in 2003. The site is also very close to the interchange of highway and the
Taipei City center The site is marked in green
Taipei Songshan Airport.
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Taipei City center The site is marked in green A closer look The site is marked in green

13. C-3 基地環境 Project site
The site consists of legal and illegal concrete buildings, iron sheet structures and fences. Please see the
appendix for more photos.
A panorama view of the whole project site.
C-4 環境說明 Surrounding environment
A
Project site
B
JUT “Taipei Crown”
C
Zhongshen District Administration Office
D
Hsing Tien Temple
E
Other office buildings
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usability of the area
使用條件
See the following layout which shows the expected condition in
September 2008. Some of the current residents will move out before the
project starts.
Structures of concrete buildings can not be altered substantially.
Iron sheet buildings should be at least keep their roof tops. Signs
and fences can be removed or altered. All surface appearance of the
buildings can be changed.
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Area map of the site with buildings specification

15. usability of the area
Area map of the site with buildings specification
使用條件
3D Ariel view of the site
Inside the red is the actual usable land area

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17. CURATOR THEME
策展主題

20. THEVERTICALVILLAGE©

21. THEVERTICALVILLAGE©
MVRDV
170908
THE MUSEUM OF TOMORROW
EDITION 2009
JUT FOUNDATION
TAIPEI
The recent pressure on the East Asian cities has lead to an increasing demand of densification over the last decennia. It has
made way to the construction of giant buildings that gradually replace and scrape away the small scale of more traditional,
informal, individual, often ‘lighter’ types of architecture and urbanism: the Hutongs in Beijing, the small mostly wooden houses
in Tokyo and now as well the individual houses in Taipei and other Taiwanese cities. These houses often form incredibly dense
and socially highly connected communities. These urban villages combine density with enormous individual identities and dif-
ferentiations. One can speak of urban ‘ecologies’. Can’t we find a way to combine the new demanded higher densities with these
types of communities? Can we make maybe vertical ‚villages’?
The given plot of the Museum Of Tomorrow for the 2009 edition is exemplary for this development.
An existing nice small scale community is threatened by the idea of being replaced by a potential monstrous tower. The mu-
seum of tomorrow edition 2009 wants to discuss this tendency. How many of these urban villages, these informal urban settle-
ments existed? And how many still exist? Which ones are threatened to disappear? Can we imagine another upgrade of these
areas? Can we even densify these areas in such a way, that the casual informality can be combined with a higher density? What
ideas can we make? What technology is needed? Does the individual approach lead to a better climate approach? Does it create
housing types that, with the terraces and roof gardens, have more potential for leisure? Can it therefore attract also a middle or
higher class? Can it create space for individual expression, identity and architecture in this way? Can it be combined with small
scale offices and working places? Can we create a villa for everybody! In short: is informal urbanism possible?
We build an exemplary vertical village. Composed of houses that each want to demonstrate the possibilities of living in a vertical
community.
Each house absorbs parts of the researches indicated above. It leads to pavilions’ that show the different aspects of this pam-
phlet. Together they make a promenade that wants to help to construct the dream of TheVerticalVillage© !

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23. SITE ANALYSIS
基地分析

24. site area
基地面積
SITE AREA: 3300M2

25. existing buildings
基地現有建物
EXISTING BUILDINGS

26. red line area
基地紅線面積
RED LINE AREA: 2410 m2

27. kept buildings
可利用建物
KEPT BUILDINGS
CONCRTET BUILDING/ USEABLE
IRON SHEET BUILDING/ USEABLE
NO ACCESSABLE TO THE ROOF
CONCRTET BUILDING/ NO USEABLE
NO USE RIGHT

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29. EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES &
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
展覽相關活動與展覽主題研究

30. exhibition activity planning
展覽相關活動規劃
RECORD / PUBLICTION
ADVERTISING EXECUTION
PARTICIPANT
1. activity recording
1. advertising 1. basic info
1. participant number
- media advertising by other - 3-5 days
- photography
collaboration parties -fee: 3000NTD
about 36 participants
-video record
- magazine -lunch+drinks
(2009 June issue) -location: rent studio
-architecture students
space and lecture room
24 people
from university
2. production
-computers: rent from uni-
- architect/urbanist
2. website news release versity or spondsor
6 people
-book publication
-TheVerticalVillage© logo
- other culture/arts/his-
design, related products
tory related studies
(notebook and so on)
3.promotion 6 people
-MoT website
-DM
-poster
2. schedule
4. government resource
-lecture, interview, discus-
-urban development bureau sion, production, review,
-culture bureau presentation(open to
-tourism bureau public)
5. media
-journalist
-interview
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. press conference
announcement for the collaboration of JUT & MVRDV, and workshop.
2. “TheVerticalVillage©” open competition to public, 1 or 2 selected teams can join the
workshop presentation.
3. Workshop Final presentation. (open to public audience)

31. “TheVerticalVillage©” exhibition planning
exhibition period: 2009/11/14-2010/01/17
ARTIST IN
MAIN EXHIBITION SHOP NEIBOURHOOD PAR-
RESIDENCE
SPACE TICIPATATION
1. RELATED PRODUCTS
each week MoT will invite
1. SERVICE CENTER
1. YOUR VILLAGE
one special guess to stay
-info desk
-new design or limited
in the “hotel room” (one
-JUT office
sale the module house and
edition with other compa-
of the house). He or she
encourage residence build
nies
will show the work or
-own design products their own village.
exhibition or have lecture
during the exhibition
2. JUT PRODUCTS
period.
2. “TheVerticalVillage©” 2. YOUR GARDEN
exhibition
-new design or limited
courator: MVRDV encourage residences to
edition with other compa-
location: 9 small houses adopted their own garden,
nies
and bring it home after the
-own design products
exhibition.
3. WORKSHOP result
3. OTHER PRODUCTS
exhibits the workshop result
3. YOUR OTHER ACTIVI-
location: 1 house
TIES VIA INTERNET
4. MOT SHOP
4. urban development bu-
-MOT shop products
reau exhibition
-architect design cups
(something related to Taipei)
-Vitra chair exhibition
5. MOT CAFE
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. EXHIBITION OPENING + PRESS CONFERENCE
-2009/11/14, location: at the courtyard of MoT exhibition site
2. CONFERENCE
-1 day, invite 6 international speakers
3. OTHER LECTURES or EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
4. OUTDOOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE

32. TheVerticalVillage© Research Subjects
Museum Of Tomorrow, JUT Foundation For Arts & Architecture
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Informal urbanism
Hypothesis Mapping the Informal Proposal 1 Proposal 3 Proposal 5
“Is Informal Urbanism Computation/ Internet
urban settlements Density issue Individual identity
in Asia (or in the world?)
Possible?” -maps -densify the current settel- -individual expression
-Tokyo, Japan
curator text by Winy Maas computation/internet based
-analysis ments -individual needs/desires
-Beijing, China
planning of individual
-photography -casual informality + -community and social
-Seoul, South Korea
houses
Scenario -illustration higher density connection
-other cities?
-text -quality upgrade
TheVerictalVillage©
Informal urbanism Proposal 6
Mapping the Informal Proposal 2 Proposal 4
TheVerictalVillage©
in Taiwan urban typologies Program/ Function Technology
-focus only in Taipei -photography -urban ecology, roof garden -new technology
conclusion
-or with other cities? -illustration -more potentials for leisure -better climate approch
-Taichung -text -new space for working -new material
-Kaohsiung -analysis and living
-urban villa
(content: photography, text, panel, or short
film)

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35. PERSPECTIVE IMAGES
透視圖

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41. MODEL IMAGES
模型照片

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47. CREDITS
參與人員
MVRDV
Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries
with
Hui-Hsin Liao, Riccardo Ferrari
2008.12 Rotterdam

48. THEVERTICALVILLAGE©
2008.12