claudeverett 建筑大王

mask

ImageJanuary 1, 2018March 18, 2024taoobject2012, product

Temp Space & Time-plot Ratio

January 15, 2018March 22, 2024taospace, researchpublic space, art, research, interior, 2009, china, beijing

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.

Sponge

ImageDecember 20, 2017March 18, 2024taoimageart, 2014, appropriation

Instant Garden

ImageDecember 20, 2017March 18, 2024taoobjectappropriation, 2012, garden, art

You Are Designed!

December 20, 2017March 18, 2024taoresearchpublic space, 2012, art, milan, research, italy

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.

Birds

ImageDecember 20, 2017September 17, 2020taoimageanimal, 2012, photography, bird, milan, nature, italy, affordance

Merlo

ImageDecember 20, 2017September 17, 2020taoobject2012, appropriation, italy, milan, life, diy, product

Emergency Shelter

January 15, 2018March 18, 2024taospaceuser participation, public space, product, architecture, 2009

For an easier and faster construction during emergency, we tried to minimise an individual’s private space into two insulated boxes, one vertical and one horizontal—something in-between a tent and a sleeping bag. More units could be stacked and arranged in various ways, hosting families in different sizes, with public spaces naturally created.

Invisible 900m²

January 11, 2018March 19, 2024taospacearchitecture, 2009, renovation

The commission was challenging, creating a 900m² column-less exhibition hall in a historical building in the historical area of Hunan university. It was a dormitory built in 1930s by the first Chinese modernism architect: Liu Shiying.

Sticks

January 15, 2018March 20, 2024taoobjectpublic space, product, user participation, 2008, urban, china

It was the third year of our undergraduate program, a new café called C6 opened near our dormitory. Soon, it became a gathering place for students. They came here for dating, chatting, reading, and partying. The owner, Zhang Fan, was also an university student, majoring in marketing.