New Taipei City Art Museum / KRIS YAO | ARTECH

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The New Taipei Metropolis Artwork Museum is located on reclaimed land on the convergence of the Yingge River and Dahan River. The gently sloping website resembles an island inside the flowing streams, providing fascinating views of the majestic mountain and river landscapes. To the north lies Guilun Mountain, whereas to the south, the museum overlooks the Dahan River and Xueshan Vary. Drawing inspiration from the area’s wealthy historical past and tradition, the design incorporates parts such because the dry riverbed, the quaint allure of previous streets and brick buildings, and the swaying reeds, notably plentiful throughout the autumn and winter seasons, to create a contemporary and potential architectural type, a “museum of contemporary and up to date artwork among the many reeds.”

The design intelligently blends the pure and the fabricated, decoding parts of 1 within the type of the opposite, and vice versa. The distinctive façade consists of a sequence of sandblasted aluminum tubes of various heights and lengths, paired with vertically segmented three-color aluminum panels organized in a staggered method. From afar, this linear display conjures the blurry great thing about reeds swaying within the wind, concealing the stable exhibition field that so typically suggests a constructing of its typology. It cleverly mirrors the ever-changing pure setting and panorama on the facade, attracting individuals with its distinctive architectural look to visually expertise the fleeting modifications within the vastness.

At floor degree, the fair-faced concrete artwork village unfolds to disclose a community of artwork streets and sculpture terraces. This new museum follows the idea of a museum ‘open to all’. Guests can freely wander across the outside terraces lined with cafes, workshops, and eating places, spatially organized in the identical method because the previous streets of Yingge and Sanxia. They will additionally take part in numerous artwork actions, linger to admire open installations, or observe the brick pavement to the hilltop and overlook the panorama.

Above the village floats the steel-structured artwork museum, whose inflexible rectangular mass disappears behind a swaying reedbed indicated by quite a few vertical tubes of assorted heights. The long-span structural system ensures essentially the most versatile exhibition area. A grand staircase leads guests to the elevated foyer on the second ground, granting entry to the 4 kinds of show areas: normal exhibition rooms, large-scale exhibition rooms, worldwide exhibition rooms, and special-themed exhibition areas. A backyard restaurant stands on the roof, the place eating company can take pleasure in an intensive view of the Da Han Riverscape. One other design function is the person circulation to the operation administration heart and assortment storage that expedites management and safety measures.

The open artwork village embraces an unique concrete materiality to showcase the geographic typology shaped by the erosion of the Dahan River. The architectural concrete partitions function a texture imprinted by diagonally organized cedar wooden planks, contrasting with the rugged chiseled surfaces on the high and sides. The strong grainy concrete partitions and brick pavements create a winding and dynamic spatial association, establishing a creative area intertwined with nature.

The panorama bridge on the entrance of the positioning is constructed utilizing weathering metal, which develops distinctive shade and texture over time. Inside this pure setting, it harmonized with the blurred façade of the artwork museum, serving as the place to begin to information guests into the museum to discover additional.