Rooming a Space

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In the limited time of site survey, architects collect information by observing, taking notes, sketching, photographing, taking video, talking to locals etc.. When they are back in the office, they make sense out of them, giving birth to reports, diagrams and site models. By then, the whole team get a good understanding of the site especially by looking at the site model talking about the site, away from the site.

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Basket Bin

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14/03/2012 Someone left a coffee cup in the basket of tao's bicycle.
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15/03/2012 We added a red plastic bag to attract more cups but got nothing at the end of the day.
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16/03/2012 We tried a professional looking blue plastic bag, still nothing.
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17/03/2012 We persuaded people by words, still doesn't work.
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29/03/2012 We went back to blue-bag-only solution, and the bag was taken away by someone!
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30/03/2012 And we finally got a coffee cup again!
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Basket bin, Milano, 2012

Temp Space & Time-plot Ratio

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homeshop, 2009

Elaine W. Ho went to Hong Kong for two weeks and left the work-live space of HomeShop on Xiaojingchang Hutong to Tao. As an exchange, Tao was asked to make the residency term a means “to finish a project here”. His architecture internship at the firm Limited Design consisted of working from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays including the commute, which meant that only sleeping hours were spent at HomeShop. As it happened, this project was inspired by just such a relationship between time and space.

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You Are Designed!

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Via Conte Rosso 36 is our home when we were studying in Milan. It was next to one of the main exhibition area of Salone di Mobile (Milan Design Week). The official guide map suggested people a walking path from metro/train station to the exhibition area. It passed right under our balcony.

But we didn’t know it until that day.

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