Tao Zhuyin Garden is located in Taipei. It is an original architectural landmark with a vertical forest. It is named after Tao Zhugong (Fan Li) of the Spring and Autumn Period in China. It was selected by CNN as one of the nine landmarks in the world in 2016. Each set is priced at about 220 million yuan, the most expensive ecological luxury house in Taipei.
In November 2010, French ecological architect Vincent Callebaut won the bid with the concept of a city tree. He designed a spiral architectural shape with each floor rising 4.5 degrees clockwise, rotating 90 degrees from 2F to 21F, creating a 167㎡ house for each household. In the sky garden, more than 23,000 trees and shrubs are planted in the whole project, the green coverage rate is as high as 246%, and the carbon absorption reaches 130 tons per year. It is hoped that the lost forest will be recovered, and the full implementation of vertical forest architecture will be promoted.
Tao Zhuyin Garden adopts steel structure design, and the main columns use the same high-strength steel as Japan Skytree. The building is composed of 5 major structural elements, as if standing with arms outstretched and holding ski poles. 68 foundation piles that go deep into the ground about 50 meters deep into the slab layer and 48 sets of EPS isolation systems make the seismic capacity up to grade 9. The special Vierendeel Truss structure design creates a universal space without columns in the house.
The project is located in a privileged location in Xinjin District, the central area of Taipei, surrounded by mountains and rivers, adjacent to Taipei 101 Building and the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Seen from the top floor of Taipei 101, the Tao Zhu Yin Yuan project looks like a unique ecological landmark, a new symbol of urban sustainability and returning to nature. Viewed from Songgao Road, the buildings harmoniously present Zhang Jingli's concept of architecture and structure. Residents living in the surrounding 4 blocks said that the building has 4 different and surprising shapes: V-shape, X-shape, ellipse and cone.
This project proposes a pioneering concept for the ecological construction of sustainable housing: by exploring the proper symbiotic relationship between man and nature, to limit the ecological footprint (ecological occupation) of its residents. On this sustainable residential land, a truly low-energy vertical landscape belt is established. The gist of
's design is: "The city should be like an ecosystem, the city center should be like a forest, and the towers should be like trees that can be inhabited." In addition to being covered with green plants and having both a sense of form and visual impact, this project marks the In the center of the city, an ecological system that calls for the return of animals and plants is truly established, and a new nest of subtropical biodiversity is formed.
This 20-story double helix structure residential area has a 90o extension and twist from bottom to top. The simple and standardized double helix residential layers are vertically superimposed, and the layers rotate 4.5o sequentially. Various visual forms pass through Variations in concave and convex surfaces are presented. This twist is a response to 4 main goals:
(1) Integrating the south and north cones of the volume and respecting the urban identity.
(2) Maximize the area of the garden in the open air (not counted in the plot ratio). In this way, the planting area of the terrace will be much more than the required 10%.
(3) provides all residents with a unique panorama of the Taipei skyline, especially towards the Taipei 101 Tower and the central business district.
(4) uses progressive geometric shapes to form variable standard layers, and ensures the privacy of each apartment unit through lush greenery and visual occlusion.
Ecological concept
Taozhu Yinyuan project proposes a pioneering concept of sustainable residential ecological construction in the center of a comprehensive urban network in Xinyi District, Taipei City, aiming to constrain the ecological footprint of its residents by studying the correct symbiosis between man and nature . The location of the
project is the last and largest residential land in the area. The design concept is to create a vertical landscape segment with real low energy consumption. So the building has an ecological design that integrates not only the reuse of organic waste and sewage, but also all renewable energy technologies and other state-of-the-art nanotechnologies (BIPV solar photovoltaics, rainwater recycling, composting, etc. ). Therefore, the goal of the project is to increase energy efficiency and achieve official green building certification, as well as meet the specifications for high environmental quality issued by the Taipei Ministry of Interior. One of the concepts of
is the residential area in the buildingLiving and cultivating vertical farms, so the avant-garde architectural shape of this residential building first creates a new way of life designed according to nature and climate. In fact, Tao Zhu Yin Garden provides spacious verandas in the vertical direction for planting orchards, organic vegetable gardens, aromatic gardens and other medicinal gardens. It's like a living organism that can metabolize! It goes beyond the passive role of energy consumption (which simply absorbs all natural resources and emits waste) to produce its own organic food. Therefore, the architectural concept is to design a building that is self-sufficient in energy, its energy being electricity, heat and food.
(The plants are still under construction and maintenance, the old garden is being built)
Form concept
The project is neither a single tower nor a double tower, but rises to the sky with two spiral towers along the central core. The building provides a highly compressed core and a living level with great flexibility (i.e., the ability to connect two apartment units without any pedestrian bridges), while also providing city views and multiple suspended Low angle view of the garden. Just like its name,
is inspired by the double helix structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the source of life, which is full of vitality and pairs. In the project each double helix appears as a complete floor consisting of two apartments. Thus, from its base to its top, the 20-story double helix twists 90° as it stretches, creating a camber that is a metaphor for the universal harmonic musical notation and embodies the concept of balance that the project ultimately achieves.
Inspired by nature, the shape of Tao Zhu Yin Yuan comes from organic liquids and dynamic geometric shapes. The simple and standardized double helix elements are superimposed on top of each other, and each layer is rotated by 4.5°, forming a multi-faceted form through convex and concave curves.
In fact, from the perspective of pedestrians in the surrounding streets, the change of the building's surface forms a new silhouette. In addition to the sensual style of dynamic geometric forms clad in plant coats, the project truly embodies a built-in ecosystem, bringing fauna and flora back to the heart of the city, generating a new framework for subtropical biodiversity on its own. It will become a new habitat in the city!
Lush forest and open space
In order to ensure the privacy of the residents, a mineral moat was dug around the perimeter of the entire site, and the external public space is full of vitality with organic urban furniture. Inside the site, the walls of the trench become planted enclosures. The main entrance is on Songyong Road, which is less busy than Songgao Road, the main road in the city. The towers hover from the towering, leafy forest, protecting residents' privacy and protection from the surrounding urban pollution. In the heart of the green lung, a pedestrian plaza filled with exotic trees opens up a clearing rich in mineral and aquatic plants.
Like the ripples produced by water droplets, the landscape design takes the tower as the core and radiates outward in the form of a circular arc. A green waterfall of light and abundant plants reaches the deepest basement through a circular light well, allowing natural lighting and ventilation for the car park, swimming pool and gym.
Connecting the indoor and outdoor foyer
The double-height first floor space, the huge transparent curtain wall realizes the continuity between the indoor community space and the external garden.
Central core area, a vertically twisted garden surrounded by a sky lobby
The central core area completely isolates the vertical flow lines entering the two living units on the same floor. This core is fixed (it doesn't rotate). But to ensure floor-to-floor rotation, a horizontal circular flow line that allows natural lighting connects the entrance hall with each unit. This circular buffer keeps the main entrance always on the axis of each apartment despite the 4.5° rotation of each floor. Another approach has also been studied before, where a sky lobby is placed directly around the cylindrical central core, thereby forming an entrance foyer with a spectacular view of Taipei City.
Naturally lit and ventilated landscape basement
Contrary to the traditional parking lot with a height of only 2.10m under the beam and dark light, the parking lot of the Taozhu Yinyuan project has natural lighting. In fact, light wells integrated with seismic joints allow natural light and fresh air to enter the basement, allowing natural ventilation of the parking lot and the facilities connected to it (swimming pool and gym). The main entrance to the basement is a sculptural gate on Songyong Road, inspired byFrom the spiral leaf.
The apartment embodies the greatest flexibility of space and technology
The apartments with an average area of 540m2 are placed in two twisted shapes filled with plants next to the central core. Each residential unit is a floor supported by a structural system of vierendeel beams, which are only located on even-numbered floors and can be seen behind the glass curtain wall. All floors are connected at both ends by two giant spiral columns covered with green walls, while all apartments are completely column-free. The structural concept, inspired by DNA strands, enables great flexibility in terms of interior layout and also ensures optimal views towards the suspended gardens in the immediate vicinity and the city panorama in the distance.
Spatial flexibility for 4 main floor types that can be split into 2 or 4 units
Type A: 2 units with a living room that curves around a central core;
Type B: 2 units with a panoramic living room ;
Type C: 2 units of living room with elongated south facade;
Type D: 4 units of duplex living room with double height.
The challenge of a positive ecological revolution
As the Sinologist who specialized in the study of ancient China wrote in "The Chinese Mind" published in 1934: No one will object that human beings come from nature; other free elements. The Chinese only see time and space as a combination of timing and place. These are all interdependent and constitute the order of the universe. We do not believe that humans can control nature or that spirit can be separated from matter.
is in the heart of Taipei, building a city on top of the landscape, and building a city on top of the city, now it's time for the landscape to rebuild itself in the city! From the perspective of ecological resilience, Taozhu Yinyuan must be seen as a geographical abstraction and an ecological transformation. Taozhu Yinyuan builds a nature in the effort to return to the eco-city life for tomorrow!
Last but not least, it is another unique ecological milestone and a new symbol of sustainable development after the famous 101 building!
