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Mei Stone Creative Hub
Translation, not preservation
We do not restore a building.
We translate a history. And we design that translation into a service system that can sustain itself.
Meishi Village on the island of Nangan, Matsu, holds two derelict "Special Tea Room," former military brothels operated by the state during the Cold War, running until the 1990s. After demilitarization they stood empty for decades, together with the gendered history they kept silent. Such a building leaves only two conventional paths: preserve everything, and you materialize the violence; demolish entirely, and you erase state accountability. We chose a third path: keep the architecture, change the social function entirely. A site that once systematically exploited women is translated into a space where a new generation. including those once silenced. can freely create and live together.
Triple Translation
three horizontal transformation axes
Cold War military architecture → Creative incubator for youth
Site of gendered violence → Gender-equal commons
Isolated military frontier → Global digital node
These three layers are mutually conditional:
Without the gender-equality commitment, this becomes a "military nostalgia" lodging.
Without the fiber backbone, the incubator is an empty shell.
Without acknowledgement of the original function, "regional regeneration" is mere packaging.
Paid Support + Public Welfare Release
TRACK 01 PAID SUPPORT
AUDIENCE
Visitors, digital nomads, remote workers
PRICE
PLAN A/B/C
$6,000/10,000/15,000
PURPOSE
Cash flow
TRACK 02 PUBLIC WELFARE
AUDIENCE
Local youth, students, cultural workers
PRICE
FREE
PURPOSE
Knowledge commons,
community capacity
Revenue from the Paid Support track structurally subsidizes the free release
of the Public Welfare track. This is not charity.it is social responsibility
embedded into the financial structure, so the project can sustain itself
without dependence on government grants.
What We Do
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Paid Booking
64%
Avg occupancy
12
Welfare programs released
04
Local stewards
onboarded
SDG
5
Gender Equality
This building was once a state-operated institution that systematized gender-based violence. That is history. Our response is neither erasure nor exhibition .it is a reversal of social function. Those who were silenced by this space in the past now share the same walls with young entrepreneurs, global creatives, and artists of the present and future: free to create, free to cohabit. SDG 5 is not a decorative objective here. It is the ethical premise upon which the entire intervention rests.
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Decent Work
A post-military frontier island, Matsu has long faced population exodus and a broken employment pipeline. The project responds through a dual-track model , Paid Support + Public Welfare Release, in which revenue from incoming visitors structurally subsidizes free capacity-building for local youth. Decent work is not dependent on grants. It is engineered into the financial structure itself. To date, four local youth have become full working partners of the project.
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Sustainable Communities
Sustainability is not the act of restoring an old building. It is the condition of keeping a community inhabited viable, and alive. Using adaptive heritage reuse as its lever, the project converts a derelict Cold War structure into a long-term node for living and working, actively countering Matsu's demographic decline. Preservation and habitation are made into a single act.
Plans A/B/C
Plan A · Sprint Retreat 5 days NT$6,000
Plan B · Nomad Two-Week Trial 14 days NT$10,000
Plan C · Island Resident Pilot 30 days NT$15,000
All plans include:
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Private quiet room
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24-hour co-working access
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Dedicated fiber: 500/500 Mbps, <10 ms latency (Chunghwa Telecom)
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