2019年2月，台湾社会猛烈抨击一辆昂贵而难看的新旅游列车。对于我们JC建筑公司来说，我们没有抱怨，而是用鼓励和积极的态度写了一封公开信，告诉台湾社会，台湾设计师可以做出改变。这使我们有机会设计台湾有史以来第一辆旅游列车 “未来号”，并最终获得日本优秀设计奖。
In Feb 2019, the Taiwanese society criticized heavily an expensive yet unsightly new tourism train. Forus, JC Architecture, instead of complaining, we wrote an open letter with encouragement and positivity totell the Taiwanese society that Taiwanese designers can make a change. It led us to the opportunity to design Taiwan’s first-ever tourist train, “The Future,” eventually awarded the Japanese Good Design Award.
最近，JC建筑公司重新想象了大家对火车的印象，建造了台湾第一个铁路厨房，命名为 “移动厨房”。它的标志，”R”，代表 “餐厅，铁路，重新想象”，我们希望创造一种语言，连接文化，但也带来兴奋的新体验。
Recently, JC Architecture reimagined everyone’s impression of a train, building the first railway kitchen in Taiwan, named “The Moving Kitchen.” The logo of it, “R,” stands for “Restaurant, Railway, Reimagination,” we want to create a language that connects the culture but also brings excitement witha new experience.
“移动厨房 “是一个可容纳54人的旅行餐厅，包括一个全尺寸厨房、酒吧、休息室、两个座位和四个座位的用餐安排。台湾铁路管理局没有从外国火车设计公司购买新的火车，而是允许我们勇敢地使用有70年历史的火车车厢，以新的程序性可能性来翻新旧的遗产。
然而，将餐厅搬到旧火车上也有其挑战，例如提高三倍的功率以适应烹饪的要求，或者重新设计固定的椅子，使上下车都很舒适。此外，我们注意重新设计照明系统，突出食物，并在整个旅程中与外面的风景相得益彰。一个可播放的金属雕塑灯也被插入到火车上，以创造一种花香四溢的用餐体验。
“The Moving Kitchen” is a 54 person seating restaurant that travels, including a full-size kitchen, bars, lounges, two-seater, and four-seater dining arrangements. Instead of buying a new train from foreign train design companies, the Taiwan Railway Administration allowed us to take the courage of using 70-year-old railcars, to refurbish the old heritage with new programmatic possibilities.
However, moving a restaurant onto the old train has its challenges, such as boosting three times the power to fit cooking requirements or redesigning the fixed chairs so getting in and out is comfortable. Besides, we took care to redesign the lighting system, highlighting the food, as well as complementing the scenery outside throughout the journey. A playable metallic sculptural light is also inserted onto the train to create a floral sensation with the dining experience.
通过研究，我们注意到台湾火车的独特性质，无法改变任何火车的结构轮廓或插入美丽的天窗。那就是火车总是在岛上行驶，右边是山，左边是海。为了反映这两种景观的美，我们创造了一个不对称的天花板设计，在海洋一侧用黑色的框架把窗户打开，而在山的一侧用自然的木头元素来赞美。通过同样的不对称设计，我们将照明、空调、扬声器系统集中在一条轮廓线上，这也是引导乘客在整个火车上的引导路径。
Unable to alter any train structural profile or insert beautiful skylight windows, through research, we noticed the unique character of trains in Taiwan. That is the train always travels the island with the mountain on the right side, and the ocean on the left side. To reflect on the beauty of both views, we created an asymmetrical ceiling design, to open the window bigger with black frames on the ocean side, while using the natural wood element to compliment the mountain side. With the same asymmetric design, we concentrated lighting, air-condition, speaker system, into a single profile line, which also acts as a guide path to lead passengers throughout the train.
“创始人Johnny Chiu说：”我们想创造只有在台湾才能体验到的独特的铁路餐饮。我们相信，这是有132年历史的台湾铁路管理局历史上第一次出现新的自我认同，给一个过时的15000人的公司带来信心和希望，并在国家层面上以创新的设计政策重振传统铁路。
“We want to create the unique railway dining that you can only experience in Taiwan,” said the founder Johnny Chiu. We believe that it is for the first time in the 132-year-old Taiwan Railways Administration history, a new self-identity emerged to bring confidence and hope to an outdated 15,000 people company, and revive the conventional railway with innovative design policies on a national level.
Architects: J.C. Architecture
Year : 2022
Photographs :Kuomin Lee
Construction : Taiwan Rolling Stock Company
Lead Designer : Johnny Chiu, Nora Wang
Designers : Macoto Zheng, Aaron Lee
Client : Taiwan Railways Administration
City：Taiwan
Country：China