
The project sits in the Taipei Basin. Across 5.5 floors, three different families belong to the same extended family and live together. Between privacy and sharing, it seeks the longing for the traditional three-wing courtyard house — perhaps another form of life in Taipei. "Cultivate the self, order the family, govern the state, bring peace to all under heaven" gives a fitting account of our human relationships. Between self, family, extended family, and society, the self and the family form a bridge, connecting outward. This is not strangers placed into one space to live together, but an attempt to build a vertical village out of family. Within this vertical space, the individual connects to family, family shares with extended family, extended family lives together with community — roles lean on one another.
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"In the 5.5-story space, three different families belong to the same clan and live together. In the privacy and sharing, we can find the yearning for the traditional family triad house, which may be another kind of Taipei life. The old Chinese phrase "Cultivate one's morality, regulate one's family, govern one's country, and bring peace to the world" is an appropriate way to sort out our interpersonal relationships. Between ourselves, our family, our clan, and society, we are connected to our home as a bridge to the outside world. Instead of putting strangers into a space to live together, we try to use family as a vertical village connection. In this vertical space, people and family are connected, families and clan are shared, clans and community are lived together, and roles are clinging to each other.














In the modern Taipei city we live in, we have benefited from the rapid development of the economic development but also have been confined to the same old birdcage buildings for a long time, and in the flood of decades of continuous development and interpretation, every direction is moving forward for the better stage, except for "living" which seems to have been put on hold. Living in them has lost the opportunity and space for human interaction. After the concept of vertical living or shared spaces was introduced in the millennium, it is difficult to be realized due to the strangeness in the society. There are many forward-looking attempts such as symbiotic apartments, collaborative workspaces and vertical cities, but they stop at the lack of a sense of belonging.




















