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iv. A prototype for what cannot be predicted, only prepared..

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. —— Charles Darwin 

The new national educational core in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, where TSMC holds bay. HATCHER is not a single project. It is a prototype. A possibility. A pulse.

Here, architecture is not a container. It is an interface. A place that listens before it speaks.

Diagram of information hierarchy, drawn during online discussions
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan, on Miro

Manifesto.

  1. No more containment. No more stillness.

  2. We reject the building as a sealed object.

  3. We reject programs frozen in time.

  4. We propose a system that listens. That transforms. That learns. Architecture is not the end product. It is the beginning of process.

  5. HATCHER is a site for collision— of disciplines, bodies, data, and futures. It does not predict. It prepares. It does not dictate. It adapts.

  6. This is not architecture for stability, This is architecture for change.

Diagram of building cycle
Drawn by: Yu-Xiang Huang, Ting Xu Chou

Waste, feedback, and matter are reprocessed.AI interprets patterns. A material tower recycles waste, outputs filaments, robotic arms build. An AIOT.

Architecture—now temporary, iterative, testable. Printed, tested, replaced. Form is temporary. Intelligence is cumulative.

Section Perspective through Public Grounds
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan
Diagram 1: A glass curtain simultaneously segregates and connects solid and void.
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan
Diagram 2: A Red Route loops through areas of discussion, invention and exchange, sparking imagination of the observer.
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan
Diagram 3: Continuity of functions along the ground floor pulls publicity into the research building, city and industry intermingle. For technology comes from life, from humanity.
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan
Diagram 4: A web of sightlines, all can see all. Researchers gaze upon picnicking crowds, families glimpse the newest prototype printed. Contact breeds understanding, empathy, imagination.
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan
Diagram 5: A web of contact.
Drawn by: Ming-Ming Tan

Intelligence is collective, and so is our future.

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