"Positioned at the heart of this redevelopment area, the project has been described as Taiwan's most significant cultural initiative of 2025. SANAA's design follows the guiding idea of creating 'a library in a park and an art museum in a forest.' The building is lifted above ground level, allowing natural light and park breezes to move freely through shaded plazas that provide open, permeable access from all sides."
"The plan dissolves traditional divisions between museum and library spaces within an open and inclusive interior. Reading areas and exhibition zones are designed to overlap, encouraging cross-programming and interaction. The library will house over one million physical and digital resources. On the rooftop, the design team at SANAA organizes an outdoor garden that offers views of Central Park and the Taichung skyline. Conceived as both a public landscape and a cultural extension of the building, the rooftop enhances the continuity between built and natural environments."
Taichung Art Museum by SANAA will open on December 13, 2025 as part of the Taichung Green Museumbrary. The complex occupies the northern edge of Central Park within the Shuinan Trade and Economic Park, a redevelopment of a former military airport. SANAA's concept envisions 'a library in a park and an art museum in a forest,' lifting the building to allow natural light and park breezes through shaded plazas and to create open, permeable access. Interior design dissolves traditional museum-library separations, with overlapping reading and exhibition spaces and over one million physical and digital resources. A rooftop garden offers views of Central Park and the Taichung skyline. A dual-layer facade of high-performance glass or metal with aluminum expanded metal mesh provides a silvery veil that enhances transparency and environmental performance while emphasizing lightness and integration with the park.
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