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 Taipei we live in now, we have gained from rapid economic growth while remaining confined, for decades, to the same birdcage apartments. Through years of continuous building and reinterpretation, almost every part of the city has moved forward — except the way we live, which seems to have been left on hold.
These apartments have lost both the room and the occasion for people to meet. Vertical living and shared space entered the conversation around the turn of the millennium, but they remain hard to realize here, because the idea still feels foreign. Co-living apartments, collaborative workspaces, vertical cities — there have been many forward-looking attempts, and most stall at the same point: a missing sense of belonging.
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