The newly completed Ching-sheng Plaza will immediately emerge before your eyes after you are climbing over the Kenan Slope. TKU has consistently been upholding its principle to maintain an open-style campus without wall, a spirit of TKU.

TKU, therefore, has never built a school gate since it was founded in 1950. Prof .Jeng Hoang-ell of Department of Architecture was consigned by the school authorities to design an open air plaza “Ching-sheng Plaza”. The construction work beginning last July will be completed in September.

The plaza is composed of lawn and stone-stepped seats which are surrounding along the Ching-sheng Statue. The design is aimed at creating a special feature of entrance concept, Prof. Jeng said, adding that it will offer a humanizing campus space.

Students will have a different view effect if he views the entrance of Tamsui River from the Chinese Palace-style road or from the plaza. The plaza is accommodated with 300 seats. A dancing stage can be built in front of the seats. The plaza is an open air space that can offer a location for activities performed by students associations and clubs.

The University’s Triple Objective— Globalization, Information-oriented Education and Future-oriented Education—to be made into Koji pottery will mount the wall located at the top of Kenan Slope. This part of work will be completed by Nov. 8.

Talking about the concept of design, Prof. Jeng said that the design aims to help students experience the spirit of Tamkang shortly after they enter into the plaza.

In order to correspond to the spirit of open-air campus, Jeng went on saying that the concept of plaza is inspired by his European trip.