九歌 Muzha Residence

這座位於木柵動物園附近、景美溪左岸的集合住宅是我們近期作品中，造型語彙使用最為低限的嘗試。整棟水平帶狀陽臺構成勺子型的曲面，從當代標準來看並不新潮，倒有臺灣早期國際樣式的摩登調性：它顯露一種刻意的機能整合以致視覺統一的企圖。

這個設計來自景觀權與景觀責任兩項主要顧慮互相權衡的結果。一般而言，在一塊可遠眺水岸的基地上做規劃，爭取每戶的景觀權是很合理的做法。本案背山眺水，但地界窄長，在一層兩戶的需求下，我們仍希望不要破壞、甚至盡可能強調這個地區的地景特性：一種緩緩蜿蜒、帶狀的優雅。於是我們放棄齊頭式的視野平等，而將建築量體配置成前後兩棟、前棟眺望向水景、後棟聆聽於山林， 其間為中庭的三明治格局。整體平面有點像張開的胡桃鉗，它的角度一方面削減中庭的脅迫感，一方面使後棟的短邊也獲得眺望水景的視野。立面計畫上，胡桃鉗的內緣延續正立面的水平語彙， 並且刻意規劃成流曲般的輪廓，它可以更強烈地統合工作陽臺，賦予中庭一個像建築物內部山水的氣味。

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Located near the Taipei Zoo and along the left bank of the Jingmei River, this residential complex represents one of our most restrained explorations in formal expression. The continuous horizontal balconies form a spoon-like curve that, while not “trendy” by contemporary standards, recalls the modernist tone of Taiwan’s early International Style. It reflects a deliberate attempt at functional integration that results in a unified visual composition.

This design emerged from a negotiation between two major concerns: the right to a view and the responsibility toward the landscape. Generally speaking, on a site overlooking the waterfront, it is reasonable to ensure that each unit enjoys a view. In this project, the site lies between the mountains and the river, long and narrow in shape. Despite the requirement of two units per floor, we sought not to compromise but rather to highlight the site’s inherent character, an elegant and gently meandering horizontality. Instead of pursuing equal views for all, we divided the building mass into two blocks. The front building faces the river, while the rear one opens toward the mountain, with a courtyard placed between them like the filling of a sandwich. The overall plan resembles an open nutcracker. Its angle both alleviates the sense of enclosure within the courtyard and allows the short end of the rear building to gain a view of the river.

In the façade design, the inner edge of the “nutcracker” continues the horizontal language of the front elevation and is intentionally shaped into a flowing curve. This gesture unifies the service balconies into a cohesive whole and gives the courtyard a subtle sense of landscape, evoking an image of mountains and waters contained within the architecture itself.