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House
Taiwanese sample houses are
temporary structures constructed as a sales tool and publicity mechanism
for new housing developments. They are a competitive art
form - each sample house trying to outdo the next. Our Sample
House designed for for JUT Project Development Taipei draws inspiration
from the aruana, or Chinese Silver Dragonfish as well as the graceful mountain
range ringing the Taipei basin and diving into the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan
Straights to the west. The fluid, site-less, animate body made of
the stuff of dreams speaks architecturally to the idea of “dream
home” through its fantastical exterior envelope. The Aluminum
shell of the fish plunges into pools of water which have been carved into
the existing rice fields. Unlike many sample houses the structure,
including the industrial aluminum foil skin, has been designed to be one
hundred percent recyclable.
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