Floating Structures
2019-2020/ NTU Civil Engineering + NCKU Architecture joint workshop
Instruction team: Hervé Capart, Shih-Hung Yang, Fu Leung Lien
Role: Teaching Assistant, digital modeling and simulation, collaborate on
design and fabrication in the instruction team
In the face of rising sea levels, how can private waste of coastal areas be leveraged for public benefit? In the 2019 instruction team, we collected broken bikes from coastal area neighborhoods to build a pedal-powered boat. The boat serves as a transportation and amusement facility at the Beimen Lagoon Visitor Center in Southern Taiwan.
In the 2020 instruction team, we try to push the design further by introducing wind power in our new floating structure. We recycled the 2019 instruction team project and a student group’s work to build a floating structure powered by a windmill. The bike components of 2019 became the mechanism, and the floating parts were used to enhance the stability of the design.
