26.05.2010

Both of us were early to rise with the purpose to hurry the railway station. Yet, we are going to 台南~ It took about 4 hours to arrive. A representative from 成功大学come and fetch us to their campus. From the historical point of view, this university was built in 1944, which is the earliest University in offering architecture course. They have around 600 student for this only course, which achieved quite a very high amount compare to our University. We walk around in their campus and visit every corner of their campus: library, student's workshop,stuff room and some classroom as well. They have some interesting space which would like to share with. That is - they are having an open area for student presentation. For instance, people who are passing by can join some seniors or juniors presentation in the foyer or library. Can clearly see that they are trying to integrate some activities together in a space.

Waiting for departure...
Integration between library and presentation area.
It is an open area with enough space to accommodate around 30 students

Studio + workshop,they can design themselves for the space they prefer

生态池 - Embellishment of a space by reusing the water from toilet or sanitary

After that, we had our meal with their presents and some lecturers at the nearby restaurant.

my lunch~

After having a tasty and palatable meals, we had our time to 树屋. According to the lecturers, this building was housed by residences, they moved away while the structure was preserved by the government. And what we can see now is the existence of both trees and the house. I can deeply feel the immortality and vitality by the surviving of the trees inside the house. The roots are scrambling around every corner of the space. It looks spectacle indeed.

We had a 安平city walk. It is a very historical place which equivalent to Melaka. This district are all bout the history of Dutch East India Company and the trade between China and Japan. It can be seen by the trace of architecture and culture a place: Anping Fort and 安平第一老街. According to the legend, it is the first built street in anping. Visually, we can see that the scale of the pavement is design for human walking length. Cars are totally cannot drive pass. Anyway, when time passing by, most of the houses were renovated and lost its origin appearance.

Roots grow from top to ground

Roots grow through the roof

The wall appearance shows the age of building

Fort jiun haw and joshua oldern trishawThe back of the street Night view of 台湾文学馆

P.S: A meaningful and tiring day.~The best transport is walking.Not only can direct interact with the ambient and culture of that country, we can also observe more for the happening around us~