This studio aims to introduce graduate students on Asian eco-cultural urbanism in planning and design research. It forms second part of the Studio work that continues from previous Semester One design research to further define and experiment/model make innovative and sustainable architectural design based on natural and cultural principles for the next lap of resilient and sustainable community development. The studio has the following specific objectives:
1. Performing Biomimicry Design Thinking in the experimentation stage;
2. Integrate and reevaluate Life’s Principles in sustainable eco-cultural development and design;
3. Critically test new system design based on local organisms; and
4. Seek radical simplicity in the design of sustainable architecture for betterment of sub-tropical community.

This studio aims to introduce graduate students on Asian eco-cultural urbanism in planning and design research. It forms second part of the Studio work that continues from previous Semester One design research to further define and experiment/model make innovative and sustainable architectural design based on natural and cultural principles for the next lap of resilient and sustainable community development. The studio has the following specific objectives:
1. Performing Biomimicry Design Thinking in the experimentation stage;
2. Integrate and reevaluate Life’s Principles in sustainable eco-cultural development and design;
3. Critically test new system design based on local organisms; and
4. Seek radical simplicity in the design of sustainable architecture for better of sub-tropical community.

Networking the Canteenscape Conducted by Shih-wei Lo Subject Description The everyday life of the city is crucial to the formation of the city morphology, and even the forge of its character and identity. Among varied modes of daily life, eating specially plays a dominant role bringing forth what a city is. Eating culture enlivens the city, whether by those who provides or consumes foods. A hidden world which has long been neglected but keeps imbuing the city with vigor and thrust is constituted by canteens on streets. They are often categorized as informal sector. However, if based on the research on the ‘arrival city’ phenomenon, those sprawling canteens along streets host most of immigrants from countryside and become temporary niches for their converting into citizenship of the city. An emergent paradigm of urban design caring for the bottom-up development of street life thus signals a new perspective intervening into the urban reality, specifically taking into account of Asian context. Canteen: A temporary or mobile stand at which food is provided. ��catering, snack, eatery, eating house, restaurant Target City/Cuisine Area: Downtown Taichung Municipality Cuisine: Taiwanese, Hakka, Mainlander’s, Japanese, Southeast Asian…

Networking the Canteenscape Conducted by Shih-wei Lo Subject Description The everyday life of the city is cruel to the formation of the city morphology, and even the forge of its character and identity. Among varying modes of daily life, eating specially plays a dominant role bringing forth what a city is. Eating culture enlivens the city, whether by those who provide or consumer foods. A hidden world which has long been neglected but keeps imbuing the city with vigor and thrust is constituted by canteens on streets. They are often classified as informal sector. However, if based on the research on the ‘arrival city’ phenomenon, those spraying canteens along streets host most of immigrants from countryside and become temporary niches for their converting into citizenship of the city. An emerging paradigm of urban design caring for the bottom-up development of street life thus signals a new perspective intervening into the urban reality, specifically taking into account of Asian context. Canteen: A temporary or mobile stand at which food is provided. ��catetering, snack, eatery, eating house, restaurant Target City/Cuisine Area: Downtown Taichung Municipality Cuisine: Taiwanese, Hakka, Mainlander’s, Japanese, Southeast Asian…

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