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Mitsui Momery Warehouse

Mitsui Momery Warehouse

Taipei City, Taiwan

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Mitsui Momery Warehouse

Taipei City, Taiwan

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HC Space Design/H.C.Tai Architect

Type

Commercial › Exhibition Center
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant Information Center
Cultural › Cultural Center Museum Memorial

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2018

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

In 1894, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and Japan fought a war. When the year was Jiawu, it was called the First Sino-Japanese War. In the end, the Qing Dynasty was defeated. On April 17, 1895, Li Hongzhang and Japan signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
Since then, Taiwan has been ceded to Japan, and 50 years of colonial rule in Japan have begun. The Taiwanese people have waged great armed struggles and ended in failure. However, the history of the Taiwanese people’s heroic confrontation with Japanese aggression should be firmly remembered.
The Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Old Warehouse (referred to as Mitsui Warehouse) is a Euro-style building located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is located at No. 265, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, and was built by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. during the Japanese occupation.
On May 7, 2012, the Taipei City Government announced that it is a historic building in Taipei.

The building is a warehouse of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. during the Japanese occupation period. It was built in 1914. It is a three-storey 2nd-floor brick-and-wood mixed-building house and a roof-building roof. The main beam wooden truss spans far and wide, and the central and vertical facades of the building are Set the gable.

After the end of the Second World War, the property rights of the warehouse were handed over to the Taiwan Provincial Government Materials Bureau. After 2002, they were handed over to the Taiwan Railway and then transferred to the Taipei City Government.

In 2014, the “Western District Portal Project” promoted by the Taipei City Government, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Culture proposed the “Renovation Plan for the Square of the City Gate around the North Gate of Taipei City”.
On November 1, 2018, after two years of renovations, new elements and functions were placed in the interior space, and Mitsui Warehouse was transformed into a "memory warehouse", which was officially opened to the public.
The Mitsui warehouse. witnessed the industrial development of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Its geographical location also represents the meaning of Taipei's commercial development from water transport to land transport. It is a historical building with great preservation value.

It's becoming an important node in the Beimen, communicating through the arts and cultural activities, let more people understand the cultural development of the place.
Taipei is a city that is immersed in time machines. The Dadaocheng and Beimen are a past that cannot be forgotten from generation to generation. In the past 100 years, it has spawned prosperous commercial activities, rich people's lives and long-standing folk beliefs.
When the glory fades, how to inject new life, highlight the human characteristics and promote the industrial recovery to preserve the beauty of the years, let the old buildings naturally integrate into our lives.
The warehouse writes down the spirit of life and lays the root of culture.
Let us write history with old buildings and visit this unique new thinking space.

Space description

Mitsui Warehouse, also known as Memory Warehouse.
In the center of the first floor, we set a “memory book store” as the most important space in the memory warehouse, where people can get the historical memory of the development around the North Gate, Mitsui Warehouse and even Taipei. When people walk into the small bookstore, they feel a bright and simple display space. We use this pure space to highlight the cultural relics and create an atmosphere that respects the past history. In addition to seeing many artifacts showing past history in this space, visitors can also use the technical experience of VR to receive the stories of Mitsui Warehouse and Bemen and the historical memory of Taipei.

Memory Book Store - concept
The metal arches respond to the image of the brick arch.
The glass bricks and the bricks from the space of the memory book store, and the bricks are stacked to respond to the brick texture of the Mitsui warehouse.
The millstone floor creates a nostalgic space, making the space of the Memory Book Store simple and pure.
The color of metal bookshelves changes over time, recording the flow of time.

B r I c k
Memory Book Store is a wall space of 7mx4m. The wall material is glass brick with brick and a metal shelf surrounded by walls. We attempted to put it in a light and penetrating body and reuse the bricks.
The stacking of block corresponds to this brick-built historical building, creating an interesting dialogue between "new" and "old".
The bookshelf chooses to use metal as the material. I hope that its color will change with time. It will changed from the new bright and state. In the process of gradual change, the flow of time will also make the memory book city " The new "slowly merges with the "older" of Mitsui Warehouse.

Memory Wall - Travel through time
When we took the elevator to the second floor and saw the wall at first sight, we set the original old steel column on the ground as a historical display, and used a wire mesh to make a frame with red bricks hanging above. The shape of the arched hole is made of iron plate, and the art of the installation is used to let the visitors see the window through the hole, and they will see an image about the relationship between local and the Mitsui warehouse.

Dining area and Bar
In this building, we set up a bar and dining area to diversify the subsequent operations and attract more people to visit. You can come here for coffee, reading, listening to lectures and participating in the show. Good times, we tried to create a space atmosphere compatible with the ocean with the "Taisho Romance" style, so we used a lot of retro bricks and tiles to make the field segmentation, the bottle-shaped lamps, the brick walls of the bar, and the toilet. Wall bricks.. and so on.
The long seating area on the first floor set as the coffee seat, and the vintage green flannel is used to present the atmosphere of the era.

2nd floor lecture hall and exhibition hall
A lecture hall has been set up on the 2nd floor, so that many art events, performances and cultural lecture halls can be held here. There are also dining areas and an office. Most of the space is currently used as a historical exhibition to show some Cultural and historical buildings, near the North Gate.such as the historical image of buildings such as the North Gate, Taipei, Beimen, Taipei, Futai Street, and Post Office, allow people to better understand our cultural assets.

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