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[[Image:Treasure_Hill_Taiwan.gif|thumb|right|300px|Treasure Hill, 2003]]
[[Image:Treasure Hill Taiwan.gif|thumb|right|300px|Treasure Hill, 2003]]
[[Image:Treasure_Hill_garden.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Organic Layer, 2003]]
[[Image:Treasure Hill garden.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Organic Layer, 2003]]
'''Treasure Hill''' ({{zh|t=寶藏巖|p=Bǎozàng Yán|poj=Pó-chōng-giâm}}) is a community in [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]. Originally an illegal settlement, it was founded by the [[Kuomintang]] military veterans at the end of 1940's and served originally as an anti-aircraft position.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/12/09/2003283705 | work=Taipei Times | title=A hive of activity at Treasure Hill | date=December 9, 2005}}</ref>
'''Treasure Hill''' ({{zh|t=寶藏巖|p=Bǎozàng Yán|poj=Pó-chōng-giâm}}) is a community in [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]. Originally an illegal settlement, it was founded by the [[Kuomintang]] military veterans at the end of 1940's and served originally as an anti-aircraft position.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/12/09/2003283705 | work=Taipei Times | title=A hive of activity at Treasure Hill | date=December 9, 2005}}</ref>


After cooperating with [[non-governmental organization]] Global Artivists Participation Project,<ref>{{cite conference | url=http://cct.go.kr/data/acf2005/S2_3(Asia%20culture%20Symposium2).doc | last=Kang | first=Min Jay | title=Con-fronting the Edge of Modern Urbanity — GAPP (Global ''Artivists'' Participation Project) at Treasure Hill, Taipei | conference=Asian Culture Symposium | location=Gwangju, Korea | date=December 4-7, 2005}}</ref> the Taipei City Government<ref>{{cite news | url=http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/site/tj/ct.asp?CtNode=122&xItem=23720 | work=Taiwan Journal | title=Page of Taipei history closes for overhaul | date=January 31, 2007}}</ref> developed the area into an example of environmentally sustainable urban community.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.atelier-3.com/mediawiki/index.php/Design_2003.10_Treasure | work=Atelier 3 | title=Treasure Hill | date=October 2003}}</ref> With the policy of preservation and revitalization, the old settlement unfolded a new vision of an [[artivist]] compound which would respect the existing fabric of the community while fulfilling the regeneration concept of "symbiosis" to incorporate production and ecology in communal living and ushering in the program of an international youth hostel and creative ideas of art to further cultural exchanges with broader international communities.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blog.yam.com/thcoop/category/728034 | title=Treasurehill Artivists CO-OP | date=February 27, 2006}}</ref>
After cooperating with [[non-governmental organization]] Global Artivists Participation Project,<ref>{{cite conference | url=http://cct.go.kr/data/acf2005/S2_3(Asia%20culture%20Symposium2).doc | last=Kang | first=Min Jay | title=Con-fronting the Edge of Modern Urbanity — GAPP (Global ''Artivists'' Participation Project) at Treasure Hill, Taipei | conference=Asian Culture Symposium | location=Gwangju, Korea | date=December 4–7, 2005}}</ref> the Taipei City Government<ref>{{cite news | url=http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/site/tj/ct.asp?CtNode=122&xItem=23720 | work=Taiwan Journal | title=Page of Taipei history closes for overhaul | date=January 31, 2007}}</ref> developed the area into an example of environmentally sustainable urban community.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.atelier-3.com/mediawiki/index.php/Design_2003.10_Treasure | work=Atelier 3 | title=Treasure Hill | date=October 2003}}</ref> With the policy of preservation and revitalization, the old settlement unfolded a new vision of an [[artivist]] compound which would respect the existing fabric of the community while fulfilling the regeneration concept of "symbiosis" to incorporate production and ecology in communal living and ushering in the program of an international youth hostel and creative ideas of art to further cultural exchanges with broader international communities.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blog.yam.com/thcoop/category/728034 | title=Treasurehill Artivists CO-OP | date=February 27, 2006}}</ref>
The community has been featured in [[The New York Times]] as one of Taiwan's must-see destinations.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/show_issue.php?id=200659505026e.txt&table=2&h1=About%20Taiwan&h2=Cities | work=Taiwan Panorama | title=The "Art" of Community Preservation — Treasure Hill | date=May 2006}}</ref>
The community has been featured in [[The New York Times]] as one of Taiwan's must-see destinations.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/show_issue.php?id=200659505026e.txt&table=2&h1=About%20Taiwan&h2=Cities | work=Taiwan Panorama | title=The "Art" of Community Preservation — Treasure Hill | date=May 2006}}</ref>


<blockquote>''Treasure Hill is the attic of Taipei carrying the memories, stories and traditions of the past generations. In some way it is a reflection of the Taipei mind that the industrial city is not able to reflect. For the stories to surface the industrial city must be turned over: the city must be a compost.'' —Marco Casagrande<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.epifanio.eu/nr9/eng/cross-over.html | first=Marco | last=Casagrande | authorlink=Marco Casagrande | title=Cross-over architecture and the third generation city | work=Epifanio | volume=9 | date=2008}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>''Treasure Hill is the attic of Taipei carrying the memories, stories and traditions of the past generations. In some way it is a reflection of the Taipei mind that the industrial city is not able to reflect. For the stories to surface the industrial city must be turned over: the city must be a compost.'' —Marco Casagrande<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.epifanio.eu/nr9/eng/cross-over.html | first=Marco | last=Casagrande | authorlink=Marco Casagrande | title=Cross-over architecture and the third generation city | work=Epifanio | volume=9 | year=2008}}</ref></blockquote>


Police closed the area in 2007 in order to guarantee safety for restoration work.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/HTML/ENG/03news/news_a01_main.asp?sn=49 | work=Taiwan Headlines | title=Police, protesters clash at Treasure Hill | date=January 31, 2007}}</ref> The restored Treasure Hill reopened as an artist village in 2010 with only 22 original families managing to move back to the settlement.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/10/02/2003484360 | title=Treasure Hill reopens as an artist village | work=Taipei Times | date=October 2, 2010}}</ref> The restoration process has been critisized to have caused the neighbourhood to be stripped of its prior residents and turned into a space which celebrates individual expression and artistic creativity at the expense of housing lower income families.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4834%3Aquestioning-individual-expression-in-an-urban-context-the-example-of-treasure-hill&catid=697%3Amay-focus&Itemid=348&lang=en | title=Questioning Individual Expression in an Urban Context: The Example of Treasure Hill | first=Efe | last=Levent | work=eRenlai | publisher=Taipei Ricci Cultural Enterprise | date=April 2011}}</ref>
Police closed the area in 2007 in order to guarantee safety for restoration work.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/HTML/ENG/03news/news_a01_main.asp?sn=49 | work=Taiwan Headlines | title=Police, protesters clash at Treasure Hill | date=January 31, 2007}}</ref> The restored Treasure Hill reopened as an artist village in 2010 with only 22 original families managing to move back to the settlement.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/10/02/2003484360 | title=Treasure Hill reopens as an artist village | work=Taipei Times | date=October 2, 2010}}</ref> The restoration process has been criticized to have caused the neighbourhood to be stripped of its prior residents and turned into a space which celebrates individual expression and artistic creativity at the expense of housing lower income families.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4834%3Aquestioning-individual-expression-in-an-urban-context-the-example-of-treasure-hill&catid=697%3Amay-focus&Itemid=348&lang=en | title=Questioning Individual Expression in an Urban Context: The Example of Treasure Hill | first=Efe | last=Levent | work=eRenlai | publisher=Taipei Ricci Cultural Enterprise | date=April 2011}}</ref>


==Urban Farming==
==Urban Farming==
The Treasure Hill community is located by the Xindian River, which was an important lifeline for the settlement providing drinking water, fish and gravel for construction work before the river got polluted. The community used to have extensive urban farms between the settlement and the river.
The Treasure Hill community is located by the Xindian River, which was an important lifeline for the settlement providing drinking water, fish and gravel for construction work before the river got polluted. The community used to have extensive urban farms between the settlement and the river.
''"The pollution comes from the up-stream."'' - Missis Chen, the leader of the Treasure Hill original community. <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.e-architect.co.uk/taiwan/taipei_from_the_river.htm | title=Taipei from the River | first=Marco | last=Casagrande | work=E-Architect | date=March 28, 2011}}</ref>
''"The pollution comes from the up-stream."'' - Missis Chen, the leader of the Treasure Hill original community.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.e-architect.co.uk/taiwan/taipei_from_the_river.htm | title=Taipei from the River | first=Marco | last=Casagrande | work=E-Architect | date=March 28, 2011}}</ref>


==Urban Acupuncture==
==Urban Acupuncture==
The restoration process of Treasure Hill can be viewed as an [[urban acupuncture]], where the energy of the settlement had been turned negative and had to be redirected positively towards construction.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://adamparsonsdesignthesis.blogspot.com/2010/12/urban-acupuncture-marco-casagrande.html | first=Adam | last=Parsons | title=Urban Acupuncture: Marco Casagrande | date=December 3, 2010}}</ref>
The restoration process of Treasure Hill can be viewed as an [[urban acupuncture]], where the energy of the settlement had been turned negative and had to be redirected positively towards construction.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://adamparsonsdesignthesis.blogspot.com/2010/12/urban-acupuncture-marco-casagrande.html | first=Adam | last=Parsons | title=Urban Acupuncture: Marco Casagrande | date=December 3, 2010}}</ref>


==See Also==
==See also==
* [[Military dependents' village]]
* [[Military dependents' village]]
* [[Urban acupuncture]]
* [[Urban acupuncture]]

Revision as of 19:10, 5 February 2012

25°0′37.92″N 121°31′59.32″E / 25.0105333°N 121.5331444°E / 25.0105333; 121.5331444

Treasure Hill, 2003
Organic Layer, 2003

Treasure Hill (Chinese: 寶藏巖; pinyin: Bǎozàng Yán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pó-chōng-giâm) is a community in Taipei, Taiwan. Originally an illegal settlement, it was founded by the Kuomintang military veterans at the end of 1940's and served originally as an anti-aircraft position.[1]

After cooperating with non-governmental organization Global Artivists Participation Project,[2] the Taipei City Government[3] developed the area into an example of environmentally sustainable urban community.[4] With the policy of preservation and revitalization, the old settlement unfolded a new vision of an artivist compound which would respect the existing fabric of the community while fulfilling the regeneration concept of "symbiosis" to incorporate production and ecology in communal living and ushering in the program of an international youth hostel and creative ideas of art to further cultural exchanges with broader international communities.[5] The community has been featured in The New York Times as one of Taiwan's must-see destinations.[6]

Treasure Hill is the attic of Taipei carrying the memories, stories and traditions of the past generations. In some way it is a reflection of the Taipei mind that the industrial city is not able to reflect. For the stories to surface the industrial city must be turned over: the city must be a compost. —Marco Casagrande[7]

Police closed the area in 2007 in order to guarantee safety for restoration work.[8] The restored Treasure Hill reopened as an artist village in 2010 with only 22 original families managing to move back to the settlement.[9] The restoration process has been criticized to have caused the neighbourhood to be stripped of its prior residents and turned into a space which celebrates individual expression and artistic creativity at the expense of housing lower income families.[10]

Urban Farming

The Treasure Hill community is located by the Xindian River, which was an important lifeline for the settlement providing drinking water, fish and gravel for construction work before the river got polluted. The community used to have extensive urban farms between the settlement and the river. "The pollution comes from the up-stream." - Missis Chen, the leader of the Treasure Hill original community.[11]

Urban Acupuncture

The restoration process of Treasure Hill can be viewed as an urban acupuncture, where the energy of the settlement had been turned negative and had to be redirected positively towards construction.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "A hive of activity at Treasure Hill". Taipei Times. December 9, 2005.
  2. ^ Kang, Min Jay (December 4–7, 2005). Con-fronting the Edge of Modern Urbanity — GAPP (Global Artivists Participation Project) at Treasure Hill, Taipei. Asian Culture Symposium. Gwangju, Korea.
  3. ^ "Page of Taipei history closes for overhaul". Taiwan Journal. January 31, 2007.
  4. ^ "Treasure Hill". Atelier 3. October 2003.
  5. ^ "Treasurehill Artivists CO-OP". February 27, 2006.
  6. ^ "The "Art" of Community Preservation — Treasure Hill". Taiwan Panorama. May 2006.
  7. ^ Casagrande, Marco (2008). "Cross-over architecture and the third generation city". Epifanio. 9.
  8. ^ "Police, protesters clash at Treasure Hill". Taiwan Headlines. January 31, 2007.
  9. ^ "Treasure Hill reopens as an artist village". Taipei Times. October 2, 2010.
  10. ^ Levent, Efe (April 2011). "Questioning Individual Expression in an Urban Context: The Example of Treasure Hill". eRenlai. Taipei Ricci Cultural Enterprise.
  11. ^ Casagrande, Marco (March 28, 2011). "Taipei from the River". E-Architect.
  12. ^ Parsons, Adam (December 3, 2010). "Urban Acupuncture: Marco Casagrande".
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