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Catalog of Taipei
As a typology undergoes various transformations, it becomes a living record of human life—a spatial trace of behaviors, adaptations, and cultural shifts. Rather than following a linear progression, its evolution forms a looping, reflective process, where each phase—context, material, user, and form—feeds back into the next. The result is a typology that remains grounded in its origin, yet continually adapts to remain relevant in contemporary contexts.
Through naming these evolving roles, we gain a clearer understanding of how these spatial objects relate to one another, how they interact, and how they shape—and are shaped by—human behavior. Naming serves as a tool to map relationships, revealing patterns of use, transformation, and coexistence within the urban fabric.
Innovator:
Expands the functional use of objects according to different scenarios and environmental contexts, expanding unexpected capabilities.
Expands the functional use of objects according to different scenarios and environmental contexts, expanding unexpected capabilities.
Politician:
Plants, chairs, and signs have been placed to assert control over the space, making its own rules—yet essentially engaging in the act of spatial occupation.
Plants, chairs, and signs have been placed to assert control over the space, making its own rules—yet essentially engaging in the act of spatial occupation.
Hermit:
Restricts the use of rooftop space, creating a small private retreat for personal use.
Restricts the use of rooftop space, creating a small private retreat for personal use.
Giver:
Allowing objects to pass through and remain in the space between arcade columns enables things to happen flexibly.
Allowing objects to pass through and remain in the space between arcade columns enables things to happen flexibly.
Mimic:
Develops from/out of the original context but attempts to remain or intimate the similarity.
Develops from/out of the original context but attempts to remain or intimate the similarity.
Keeper:
Maintains architectural elements in good condition while preserving their original characteristics.
Maintains architectural elements in good condition while preserving their original characteristics.
Composer:
Tracing the building outline with the same intent and then combining different methods to create a sense of harmony within chaos.
Tracing the building outline with the same intent and then combining different methods to create a sense of harmony within chaos.
Patchmaker:
Like a tailor, it attempts to use any material to match the building, stitching different layers together into a cohesive whole.
Like a tailor, it attempts to use any material to match the building, stitching different layers together into a cohesive whole.
Clinger:
All functional signals, wires, and boxes tightly attach to the building's surface, intertwining closely with one another.
All functional signals, wires, and boxes tightly attach to the building's surface, intertwining closely with one another.
Parasite:
Exaggerated spatial design extends from the roof, gradually occupying the building and fully using the original architectural space.
Exaggerated spatial design extends from the roof, gradually occupying the building and fully using the original architectural space.
Negotiator:
To achieve the goal without disrupting its original functions, considering the existing context thus leaves some space for the original species.
To achieve the goal without disrupting its original functions, considering the existing context thus leaves some space for the original species.
Follower:
Based on the shape of the building, the self-built roof extension follows its original contours, allowing for better utilization of the roof space from the inside out.
Based on the shape of the building, the self-built roof extension follows its original contours, allowing for better utilization of the roof space from the inside out.