PPES Reading Hut

WikiHouse

Led by the young British architect Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse not only satisfies different needs but also responds to contemporary housing problems by exploring the relationship between architecture and humanistic landscapes as well as by simplifying the procedure of design and production. The Graduate Institute of Architecture of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and the Association of Humanitarian Architecture, Taiwan are in charge of the infrastructure as well as structural and exterior design of this project. Noise Kitchen, Department of Wood Based Materials and Design of National Chiayi University,Woodworking Training Design Research Center of National Taipei University of Technology and College of Design of Chaoyang University of Technology&Maker Union 2015 International Competition Workshop for Emerging Student Designers,Taiwan are in charge of the structure CNC cutting process. The visitors will be invited to take part in this project and accomplish the “Wikihouse” with concerted efforts, which embodies the spirit of collaboration underscored by this exhibition. The finished work will become the PPES Reading Hut to be donated to Pei-Ping Elementary School in Hsin-Bu Township, Hsin-Chu County, which represents the charitable spirit of social design by providing reading resources to remote countryside.

WikiHouse

Artist Introduction

WikiHouse is an open source building system. Many designers, collaborating to make it simple for everyone to design, print and assemble beautiful, low-energy homes, customised to their needs.

Humanitarian Architecture Lab, Graduate Institute of Architecture, NCTU

Artist Introduction

The institute focuses its teaching and research on advanced architecture and digital design. It also engages in the theory building, discursive development, practical design, and prototypical experiments on the design of architecture, environment, city, and life. Based on the Graduate Institute of Architecture, NCTU, the Humanitarian Architecture Lab conducts the research on architectural design in remote countryside as well as the R&D on construction materials and techniques. It aims to achieve three major goals: (1) teaching - to cultivate students’ capability in the implementation of construction projects and to advance their knowledge about being a construction volunteer; (2) experiment - to study and develop construction materials and techniques applicable to difficult circumstances; (3) plan and strategy - to establish a local-based mode of collaboration.

Association of Humanitarian Architecture, Taiwan

Artist Introduction

The association is the first national non-profit organization featuring architectural design and construction. People in this association believe that architects engaging in humanitarian architecture resemble the doctors providing free medical consultation in remote countryside. Adopting an open, sharing, and reciprocal mode of collaboration, the association accumulates its experience of humanitarian architecture and social design in normal times, and provides other non-profit organizations with humanitarian architectural consultation when disasters strike.