Porous biscuit is our recipe to create buildings on pilotis that would function in urban scale. Waterfront locations require buildings that are accessed from both city and waterfront sides. By raising the building, our proposal seamlessly connects the city and the water, and guarantees public access and public nature of such a key urban location. By incorporating a thin-porous building plate floating above the retails embedded in landscape, the proposed typology would eliminate limitations of the pilotis, and creates a vibrant urban shaded area, suitable for the subtropical hot and humid summers of Kaohsiung.

The urban strategy of the project is to use the orthogonal shape of the site and the large scale of the program to frame and create a marine square at the intersection of Love River, port and the city. The three main buildings would spatially define the square and contain the noise inside the courtyard. The open stage platform with its mobile extension would be the focal point of this urban space.

The landscape proposal of the scheme overlays two approaches; The contemporary approach of performative landscape on one side, and the traditional approach of painting with nature on the other. The first approach focuses on ecology and sustainability of the site and the latter relies more on the sensual role of the nature in the urban environment. Green Dragon, a free flow of bamboo trees, moves through the site and ties the three main buildings as well as the east and west parcels of the land. The bamboo flow would resist the strong winds on the site, and retain the excess storm water at its base.