臺北機廠始於1935年，今日的臺北機廠成為臺北市中心的大型工業遺址，在過去長時間的鐵路工業對於基地土壤的汙染，成為現今轉型為鐵道博物館過程中新的基地議題。以「自然地景修復」（Recovering Landscape）為臺北機廠提出階段性的設計構想。透過臺北機廠等待成為鐵道博物館前，將時間重新導入於基地中，且成為一種「修復性的地景」。而這裡所談論的「修復」，除了是物質性上土壤的修復外，更是一種過去臺北機廠之於台北城市記憶上與心理層面上的修復。

基地遺留的工廠痕跡（trace）除了巨大尺度的鐵路與維修廠房外，我們也聚焦於被隱藏並遺留於地表之下的 - 「土壤（soil）」。面對自然與廠房轉型為鐵道博物館過程中，我們提出長期的修復計畫（Long-term recovering project），並以「土壤」、「水源」、「植栽」三個層面（Layers）作為操作主軸，並以「西露天吊車臺」作為驅動廠區修復的心臟。

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Taipei Railway Workshop was completed in 1935. It was the prosperous and modernizing period of the machine age, the era in which city development was closely related to the industry. However, the factories and machines which marked Taipei’s evolution eventually became massive industrial ruins due to urbanization. For many residents of the city, the Taipei Railway Workshop is a downtown secret. After it was designated a national heritage site in 2015, a plan was made to build the Taiwan Railway Museum on its premises.

We proposed a” landscape restoration” plan for Taipei Railway Workshop to give a new ecological, social, and cultural definition to the old industrial landscape, thus redefining what Taipei Railway Workshop is to the city.

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LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PLAN

Taipei Railway Workshop is still a brownfield with suspected pollution, including soil contamination and water pollution. We have proposed a four-stage restoration plan that uses soil, water and planting as the primary mechanism to purify the contaminated site. The West Crane area would become a water purifying space that combines a museum. During the restoration, some areas will be open to the public. In the future, as the renovation process of the Taipei Railway Workshop is gradually completed and it is reopened, it will carry all the memories of the Taipei Railway Workshop in the most uncontaminated state possible.