Ruin Academy

Taipei, Taiwan

A project by: Marco Casagrande

Architecture, Landscape, Urban Design, Media

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Ruin Academy (Taipei, Taiwan 2010 -) is an independent cross-over architectural knowledge-building platform in the Urban Core -area of Taipei, Taiwan. The Academy is run in co-operation between the Finland based Casagrande Laboratory and Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture.

The Ruin Academy received the World Architecture Community Awar... read more

Ruin Academy (Taipei, Taiwan 2010 -) is an independent cross-over architectural knowledge-building platform in the Urban Core -area of Taipei, Taiwan. The Academy is run in co-operation between the Finland based Casagrande Laboratory and Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture.

The Ruin Academy received the World Architecture Community Award 2011.

The Academy is set to re-think the industrial city and the modern man in the box. It organizes workshops and courses for various Taiwanese and international universities including the National Taiwan University Department of Sociology, Tamkang University Department of Architecture, Aalto University Sustainable Global Technologies Centre and Helsinki University of Arts and Design Department of Environmental Art. The research and design tasks move freely in-between architecture, urban design, environmental art and other disciplines of art and science within the general framework of built human environment.

The Ruin Academy occupies an abandoned 5-story apartment building in central Taipei. All the interior walls of the building and all the windows are removed in order to grow bamboo and vegetables inside the house. The professors and students are sleeping and working in mahogany made ad-hoc dormitories and have a public sauna in the 5th floor. All the building is penetrated with 6 inch holes in order to let "rain inside". The Academy is viewed as an example or fragment of the Third Generation City, the organic ruin of the industrial city.

Without his ruins man is just a common ape.

Ruin Academy publishes its own free newspaper the ANARCHIST GARDENER edited by Nikita Wu. The cross-disciplinary newspaper is architecture through writing, following professor Yoshio Kato's maxim IN THE FUTURE ARCHITECTURE WILL BE DONE BY WRITERS.

Architect: Marco Casagrande
Project Manager: Nikita Wu
JUT Foundation Coordinators: Lea Yi-Chen Lin, Yi-Ling Hung
Photos: AdDa, Nikita Wu
Cello: Emily Chang 張立青

Contact: info@ruinacademy.com collapse

Type	Educational - College or University, School, Research Facility, Academic Building, Residential Dormitory, Dining Hall, Gallery

Location

Jong-Hua Road
Taipei
Taiwan

Client

JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture

Building status

built in 2010

Number of stories

5

Site size

100 m2

Site type

urban

Building area

500 m2

Project in Detail

Materials, products, construction methods and more.

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drilling holes through building, farming a house, public sauna

Is there an innovative sustainable method deployed in this project?

ruining a house

Which materials were crucial in creating this design?

concrete, mahogany, top-soil, bamboo, brick

Project Leader

Marco Casagrande
Finland
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Team

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Nikita Wu 巫祈麟
Turku, Finland
As: Project Manager

Marco Casagrande
Finland
As: Architect, Constru..

Yi-Ling Hung
As: Curator

Yu-Sheng Chen
Da-si, Tauyuan, Ta..
As: C-LAB Operator

Yu-Chen Chiu
As: C-LAB Operator

Jan Tyrpekl
Prague, Czech Repu..
As: C-LAB Operator

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Taiwan National Arts and Culture Foundation

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