The Flow

The site is an apartment building adjacent to Zhongshan North Road, an important north-south road throughout history, on the west side of Taipei city. The road was called Chokushi Kaido (Imperial Envoy Avenue) when Japanese crown prince Hirohito (later Emperor Showa) took to visit the Taiwan Grand Shrine. After World War II, it changed the name to Zhongshan North Road, often called “Foreign Relation Boulevard” where the US Ambassador's residence and American Embassy was located. With the metaphor of the flow of time traffic movement is just like a river, the designer is taking the idea of water being fluid, transparent, and reflective to design the common spaces.