Eco-Friendly Interface Metropolitan Campus Ecology Interface Design

Abstract

Three hundred years ago, Taiwan Taipei City was still a wetland. So in essence it is supposed to be a promising candidate for becoming an eco-city. Yet, as a result of long-term development and expansion of man-made environment, inflexible urban space of frantic routines has made ecology a distant possibility. Constructing an eco-environment of water and greens in order to call back diverse species has become the earnest hope of citizens of Taipei. On the brinks of Zhongxiao East Road, NTUT campus is cornered by the road, buildings and walls. An unfriendly fence exists between the campus and the city, and numerous scooters are parked along the Zhongxiao East Road fence of the campus. The fences knocked off, the abandoned space is utilized to create an eco-river, to construct an eco-environment of water and greens in an attempt to callback diverse species, shape a very friendly campus-city interface, and ceremoniously declare that the open space of a city can be a friendly eco-interface, from which we can build an eco-campus within and disperse eco-spots in other open spaces without. Through the linkages in between, we can lay the foundation of an eco-city.

The 80-meter-plus fence along Zhongxiao East Road is taken down to transform the original “sidewalk-fence” image into one of “pedestrian strolling and eco-waterscape.” On the strange land outside the original fence, an eco-street is built to demonstrate the image of water ecology and express goodwill to pedestrians via the eco-interface. A swirling waterway is constructed among the existing trees along the side walk to introduce the urban wind corridor into the sidewalk, to caress the surface of the river and bring cool air to the campus.

The interface between the campus and the city changes into a visually penetrable communication place, which not only beautifies urban landscape, but encourages ecological species to perch here, adding rich landscapes and diverse ecological features to the strolling pedestrians.