MRT

MRT is part of "Elements for Industrial Recovery", a strategical project which consists in protecting the city's industrial heritage by finding alternative uses for these obsolete spaces that allow to keep them active and avoid its demolition.

MRT是「工業復甦要素」計劃的一部分，這個項目主要目標在於保護城市的歷史文化遺產，透過這些陳舊空間的再生使用，使其維持常態性活絡，避免面臨拆除的問題。

MRT was originally a large food and beverage warehouse. The open plan distribution maximized its storage capability avoiding worthless light or ventilation openings. In order to allow the new use that this space was to receive, a living/working hybrid, the program was split in the different requirements and desires of the new tenants and arranged in a programmatic grid. What initially was intended to be an abstract work document ended up becoming the actual project. The result is a completely fragmented space, totally opposed to the original open plan warehouse. A mesh made up of walls organizes the space into more open or closed programmatic capsules, depending on the use they house: a kitchen, a study, a library, a patio, a dining room, a bathroom, resting areas, a winter garden, a writing room and a parking space. The grid, initially orthogonal and uniform, adapts to the pre-existing structure and to the requirements of each cell, becoming a distorted mesh. These divisions become thick masonry walls plastered with lime mortar. Openings of different sizes connect the different spaces of the grid.

MRT 早期是一個大型的食品和飲料倉庫，透過開放空間的規劃，使得儲放功能發揮最大效能，同時避免了多餘的光線或通風口。為了合乎新租戶對於該空間的使用功能和期望，使空間結合了生活／工作混合型態，該項目則根據使用者的需求做佈局，並以空間中的框格結構進行功能性排列。起初，這只是一個存在於文件中的構想，最終這個抽象的概念逐漸被具體化，成為實際的項目，成就了一個功能佈局細膩的空間，與原先開放式的倉庫截然不同。由平面圖俯視，牆壁組成的框型結構，使得空間能成為一個開放或者封閉的功能區域，具體取決於它們所需到用途與性質，例如：廚房、書房、圖書館、庭院、餐廳、浴室、休息區、冬季花園、寫作空間和停車位。平面配置上的每個框格面積起初都是一致的，它根據現有結構和空間細分的使用功能進行調整，到了空間末端逐漸轉折變形。其中作為分隔的厚實石砌牆使用石灰漿粉刷，不同大小開口延續了框格中的不同空間，區隔也分明了界線。

Although in this case the program is very specific, the spatial structure allows the cells to host different uses, making a completely new activity possible in the future. Only two positions of the grid are fixed as they host two courtyards, one of them outdoor, one of them indoor, which provide light and cross ventilation to the whole space.

儘管目前的規劃相當具體，而結構仍保有充足的靈活性，從而對應未來可能出現的不同需求。框格型牆面只有兩個位置是固定的，其中包含著兩個空間，一個是室外，另一個是室內，因此能為整個空間提供光線和對流通風。這種彈性設計不僅為舊倉庫注入了新的生命，並成為保護城市歷史文化遺產的典範。