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Introduction to the project

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RiverBody                   

Living River Workshop

Peter and Mark Anderson

Tamkang University

September 2007 

We are interested in the life and flows of The Tamsui River. Many cities grow up along the flow of a river, and the city and its people become a part of this flow. A modern city can sometimes believe that it is possible to design and to build outside of the flow or even against the flow of the river, and many cities attempt this. Once the city begins to ignore the flow of the river, then individual works of architecture also begin to ignore the river, and then the city and the river grow apart. Soon many parts of the city have forgotten the river altogether. Yet the river is still there, and sometimes its forceful presence causes the city to examine the river again. Sometimes it is the river’s violence that gets the city’s attention. Sometimes it is the river’s beauty that turns the city back to the river, and sometimes it is a beautiful river’s new ugliness that demands attention.

 

The Tamsui River is very important to Tamkang, to Tamsui, and to Taipei. It is the heart of this landscape and a dominant generator of natural and urban form. We would all like to design something in this landscape, and to do so we need to understand the force of this river. As with every complex design project that we all undertake as architects, it will be necessary to begin by breaking down important issues of the project into discrete areas of critical analysis and design. Once we begin to understand various component issues that will impact architecture on the river, we will be able to build these separate studies back into increasingly unified ideas that can then be folded into the design of individual projects.

 

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