Project by Junge Huang Chih Chia Huang
Dissolving Boundary explores how an architectural system can maintain unity while embracing difference. Working collaboratively through research and transcription, we approached transcription not as copying, but as interpretation—deciding what to preserve, transform, and re-voice. Our project is grounded in the Berlin Free University, originally conceived as a non-hierarchical, decentralized campus. While its buildings and corridors appear uniform, we focused on subtle variations in courtyards, circulation widths, and façade systems that generate gradients of identity within a continuous fabric.
Inspired by Team 10’s critique of functional segregation, we questioned whether architecture organizes courtyards, or vice versa. This led us to reimagine the zone between the Humanities and Science clusters as a looped corridor system that dissolves disciplinary boundaries. Three new learning buildings—a theater, gym, and library—share a common spatial logic while differing in form and program. Together, thickened corridors, embedded social spaces, and reinterpreted Prouvé-inspired façades establish a new connective field for interdisciplinary exchange.
