TAICHUNG CITY CULTURAL CENTER

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TAICHUNG CITY CULTURAL CENTER

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Type

Cultural › Cultural Center Museum
Educational › Library

SIZE

1,000,000 +

BUDGET

$50M - 100M

«This project aims to provide citizens with a multipurpose cultural, artistic and recreational facility. By combining and synergizing the functions of arts, culture and education, the overall goal is to enhance cultural services, amenity, making arts and culture an integral part of the city life.»
Echoing urban icons
The cultural portal, combining the library and the museum, will be an echoing icon of the City of Taichung. The two landmarks, one vertical and one horizontal will enter a dialog with each other.
From the skyline onto the street life level. A portal to the park
The Gateway park will have its Gateway. The complex will be a ‘‘walktrhough’’ monument. A gate onto the park. An in between space to will unveil the cultural identity of the city. A recurrent moment of civic life in the dayof the citizen. A unique experience and memory for the tourist.
Two raised institution to extend the park to the steet
A giant veil of concrete will unite two hovering institution over the park. Raised as a greating into the park as well as enabling the extension of the park onto the street. The texture veil will be both a structural componant creating a giant beam as well as a filter of light to enhance light and climate controle.
The courtyard, the outdoor theater and stairway and the hall
The cultural portal will bear inside its programmatic ribbon, a courtyard. It will serve as a continuous green connection between the street and the park. The large staircase will be a place for informal artistic and cultural events. The Hall, as a transparent hub, will integrate both main halls and enable autonomous or combined use for the visitors.
On the street side : the museum
The museum will define the street front. The north orientation will enable natural light into the exhibition areas with out compromising its precious content.
On the park side : The Library
The library will extend along the park side to the south. The veil will ensure light controle both for climate and reading confort purposes. Generous views onto the park will be offered.
Echoing experience within the Portal
By ‘‘synergizing’’ the functions of the museum the portal is strenghten as an urban form. With aims to establish a dialog between the spaces, the courtyard will be the scene of echoing Wood boxes: reading and working room on the library side and exhibit rooms on the museum side.
The Cultural Portal of Taichung will activate dialog between art and information. Between citizens. Between urban landmarks. In between forms, be it the ‘‘ring’’ and the observatory tower, the two institutions or the citizen and his culture... in this space inside a portal, the city will unveil its identity.