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Taisugar Circular Village

Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village 

Bio-architecture Formosana

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Ying Chao Kuo

CLIENT
Taiwan Sugar Corporation

PHOTOGRAPHS
Studio Millspace, Yue-lun Tsai

AREA
28580 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Taiwan (Roc)

CATEGORY
Apartments

Text description provided by architect.

Modularization is crucial in larger-scale urban developments to make fabrication assembly and disassembly more efficient and simplify the stocks of building material banks.

Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
© Yue-Lun Tsai

The “Circular Village” is made up of the three “Circular Blocks” where the living quarters are located, “Circular Field” where it consists of a “C-House,” an “E-House” and a “C-Farm.”

The C-House functions as the living room of the village, the E-House as the kitchen, while the C-Farm is the garden where food is produced.

Taisugar Circular Village
© Yue-Lun Tsai
Taisugar Circular Village
© Yue-Lun Tsai

In the circular economy, materials are reused and virtually no waste is created. The design stage takes into account assembly in construction and deconstruction after use.

Some of the materials used include recycled and green materials. For instance, the salvaged hardwood from TaiSugar’s old dilapidated buildings was used as the main structure for the E-House while their recycled railway tracks were designed as a fence on the ground periphery.

Taisugar Circular Village
© Studio Millspace
Taisugar Circular Village
© Studio Millspace

Also, the wooden planks from the old buildings were treated and reused as the wooden frame for the pivoted door at C-House.

As to reduce the carbon emissions, we have opted for green materials like CLT (cross-laminated timber) and recycled LED glass insulation blocks for the façade and internal partition.

Taisugar Circular Village
© Studio Millspace
Taisugar Circular Village
© Yue-Lun Tsai

In order to design for disassembly, steel was chosen as the structural material rather than reinforced concrete. Modular building components such as prefabricated PC boards, metal louvers for the façade, prefabricated floor panels for slabs were used in conjunction with BIM software to comprise the BAMB database.

In order to further fulfill the spirit of circular economy, the ownership for the elevator, lighting, furniture, and sanitary fixtures were replaced with usership—so in other words, rented instead of purchased.

Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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Taisugar Circular Village
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