3rd PRIZE
[Junwei Li, Lianghan Wen]
Chicago, IL, USA
The project #1 LOKAL Tabo proposal aims to create an open and highly variable community market. We propose a passageway design strategy that integrates the consideration of disaster prevention and community service functions. Splitting the massing into halves reduces wind pressure on the Tabo when a typhoon hits, improving disaster prevention performance of the building. The passageway also serves as a canopied marketplace for local residents and farmers to display their goods and conduct trade activities, showing the openness of the new Tabo.
Meanwhile, the passageway opens towards the beach, which makes the new tabo a sightseeing and leisure place connecting nature and the community, attracting people to gather and stay here. The layout of LOKAL Tabo enables it to be transformed into a key infrastructure serving not only as a community kitchen but also an evacuation center during typhoons or other emergency situations.
This proposal embraces the local construction techniques and materials. The ground level is made of concrete structure to give sufficient stability. Acacia timber and coconut timber are used on the second level. The junction between the foundation and structural components are reinforced, and the roof structure is also braced to make the Tabo more stable.
Meanwhile, the passageway opens towards the beach, which makes the new tabo a sightseeing and leisure place connecting nature and the community, attracting people to gather and stay here. The layout of LOKAL Tabo enables it to be transformed into a key infrastructure serving not only as a community kitchen but also an evacuation center during typhoons or other emergency situations.
This proposal embraces the local construction techniques and materials. The ground level is made of concrete structure to give sufficient stability. Acacia timber and coconut timber are used on the second level. The junction between the foundation and structural components are reinforced, and the roof structure is also braced to make the Tabo more stable.
