As the primary interface between users and the public realm, Project Signal reinterprets wayfinding as a sensory journey. The site bridges Changhua Station, a busy transit hub, and Changhua Roundhouse, a living heritage site. The design treats the "object" as the foundational unit, integrating identity, utility, and materiality into spatial components to make navigation a tangible experience. Inside Changhua Station, signage becomes luminous objects. A 46-meter suspended light ribbon connects the ticketing zone and concourse, using the rhythm of light to guide passengers. Various fixtures mark exits, anchoring behaviors through illumination rather than graphics. Service counters are streamlined into clean archetypes, reducing visual noise to return transit space to its essence.
Micro-renovation of Changhua Station
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Year
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Changhua, Taiwan
2025
Yuchen Chao Photography
As the primary interface between users and the public realm, Project Signal reinterprets wayfinding as a sensory journey. The site bridges Changhua Station, a busy transit hub, and Changhua Roundhouse, a living heritage site. The design treats the "object" as the foundational unit, integrating identity, utility, and materiality into spatial components to make navigation a tangible experience.
Inside Changhua Station, signage becomes luminous objects. A 46-meter suspended light ribbon connects the ticketing zone and concourse, using the rhythm of light to guide passengers. Various fixtures mark exits, anchoring behaviors through illumination rather than graphics. Service counters are streamlined into clean archetypes, reducing visual noise to return transit space to its essence.
引路計畫 | 作為公共場域與使用者接觸的第一層介面，本案跳脫將指引視為單純符號系統的思維，轉而將「引路」理解為一種透過空間與物件展開的感知過程。基地橫跨台鐵彰化車站與扇形車庫兩處緊鄰卻屬性迥異的場域，前者承載旅運流動，後者保存機務運作與觀覽體驗，兩者交織出多重使用情境。因此本案以「物件」作為設計的最小單位，將識別、使用與材料性整合於空間構件之中，透過可被辨識、停留與使用的物件，使「引路」化成為理解場所的空間經驗。
在彰化車站內，指標被轉化為可感知的光之物件。總長四十六公尺的連續懸浮燈帶串接售票區、入站大廳與商業空間，以光的尺度與節奏重新定義旅客的定位方式；出入口與服務節點前方配置尺度相異的燈具，使關鍵行為被光所標示，而非依賴平面符號。服務窗口亦被收束為統一燈具語彙與色彩的物件原型，降低視覺雜訊，使旅運空間回到使用的本質。
Micro-renovation of Changhua Station
We moved the existing chicken coop from a closed corner to the center of an open area and used a smooth curved white metal fence to gently create a concave field under the Taiwan Golden-rain tree. By connecting the big trees, the food garden, and the composting space.In this ohm-shaped chicken coop fence, children can observe lives of the chicken closely, from the chicken name cards, egg racks, feeding, one can interact with the chicken. This resmebles the connection between life.