STUDENT FEATURE
The interior space of mud studio and home
OPTIMISING COMMUNAL SPACE By studying the original residential units and defensive wall system of the Wei Long Wu, a site located on a partially destroyed wall is picked and designed into two parts. The upper level is for dwelling while the lower level is divided into public rooms, library and rammed earth studio.
Mud is the starting point of the design. The mud studio/school provides a workplace for the house owner to teach local children about art and clay knowledge, while simultaneously enriching villagers’ knowledge of materials, helping them to repair their own homes and improve the condition of the ‘Hollow Village’.
To magnify everyday interaction between the villagers, the library is open to the stay at home children and providing reading space in their leisure time while public space can be used by the elderly to socialize.
MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION Rammed wall is the most common structural element in Hakka culture. However, it is easily eroded by rainfall and darken
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Living and dining room
will darken the area enclosed by it. A new design to improve this problem is achieved through improved design with less workforce required.
By changing the rammed earth wall from bearing to shearing wall, it stabilises the timber frame. A new mould design provides a new method for earth construction to help villagers repair their village. Two ladders are added on the two sides, allowing one person to climb atop the ram earth. Simultaneously, two sticks at the bottom consolidate the wooden frame with the rammed earth wall.
The mould hole left by the rammed earth construction also responds to the opening on the ancient wall, and the gap between the timber structure and the rammed earth becomes the inner furniture wooden frame. The embedded furniture creates a relatively flexible space, allowing more possibilities for daily usage while the small gap between the rammed wall and wooden column acts as the wooden shelf and introduces skylight into the room.
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