實踐大學民生學院教學大樓原建築為三層樓之鋼筋混凝土樑柱系統、屋頂木構造山形桁架、南側設置廊道之傳統校舍建築。更新設計之重要議題為，結構補強、回應與尊重原建築之空間秩序及尺度比例關係、校園整體空間系統，以及基礎機電系統之更新與整合等。建築結構補強不採一般低層校園建築常見之擴柱方式，依空間機能配置關係，設置剪力牆與微型樁基礎。除形成建築空間秩序之自明性及比例尺度之恰當，並有效達到建築南北向大量採光及空間視覺通透性。建築材料構造採斬石子及局部清水混凝土，搭配耐候鋼材細部。由原建築立面之預鑄水泥花窗語彙轉化，以鑄造鋁材單元系統完成之漏窗外牆，以及切削變化之廊道柱列，除形塑建築重要公共空間，並成為建築整體重要語彙。
學務大樓結構補強與建築更新設計案，原建築為四層樓之鋼筋混凝土樑柱系統、屋頂拱形力霸鋼架系統，四面採光之校舍建築。曾為體育館、圖書館等，經多次機能變更之增改建。建築結構補強，依其原結構之秩序關係與更新後行政辦公之機能空間需求與配置，採十字型之內部局擴柱及翼牆、剪力牆設置方式進行。並以此補強之結構，支撐屋頂及懸掛的服務機能空間之鋼結構系統。
建築外部，以鋼模板場鑄方式完成。以方柱切削語彙形成之遮陽、導水柱列及簷板，形成簡單節奏變化之立面秩序。構造上，嘗試將建築結構系統、鋁窗、外部遮陽柱列等系統元素由內至外分層疊合，試圖造成整體建築構造關係之鬆解與自明。
The original building was a three-story post-and-beam reinforced concrete structure with a wooden truss roofing system and a south facing corridor. It was the very first building erected after the establishment of the university.
Rather than taking the usual approach of reinforcing the low-rise building such as jacketing the structural columns, the project aims to coordinate new functions with existing spatial order by inserting shear walls and micro piling foundation. The new building manages to provide adequate natural light on the south-north axis as well as forming a sense of visual penetration among its spatial relations. Additionally, it creates a new architectural identity with its spatial order and an appropriate scale and proportion of its overall existence. Converted from the traditional pre-cast concrete lattice windows of the original façade, the new exterior walls are composed of perforated aluminum window modules and colonnades at various cutting angles. These modifications not only redefine the main public areas in the building, but they an important vocabulary of the building as a whole.
The original structure of SCU Student Affairs Office Building consists of a four-story post-and-beam reinforced concrete framework, with arched rebar truss as its roofing system and openings on four sides for natural light. To strengthen the structure, the strategy was a cross-type column jacketing method with insertions of buttress walls and shear walls according to the original structural order and for future functionality after the renewal. The reinforcement structure became the support not only for the roof but also for the suspended steel structure that serves as the service space.
The exterior of the building is completed by steel formwork. The vertical sunshades were converted from the skived rectangular pillars. The downspout columns and the concrete eaves create simple rhythmic changes to the facade. In terms of tectonics, the structural system, aluminum windows, and the exterior sunshade pillars are conceived as layers from outside in. They are composed in such a way as to loosen the relationships between different elements and to emphasize its identity.
Through respectively responding to the original spatial order and the existing proportions of the architecture by means of reinforcing the structure efficiently, at the same time integrating the basic space service facilities and its electromechanical systems, this renewal project aims to explore the architecture’s vocabulary within its relationships between the new and the old, functionality and spatiality, structure and tectonics, as well as its architectural equipment by distinctively overlapping them upon one another, while at the same time allowing the freedom to keep each of their own identities.