Tainan Art Museum

摘要

The site is located in the center of Tainan - the old capital of Taiwan - which is concentrated with many shops and cultural institutions. Awarded to us through an open competition, the project is a 22,596 m~2 art museum, to be built on top of an existing underground parking lot, which serves the surrounding area.As I walked around the site during my initial visit, my first concern was the city's density of buildings; there was no park space where citizens could relax. This is where I thought of a building typology that combines the building with a park. It would be ideal to do something similar to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, where groups of galleries are spotted throughout a beautiful landscape, but at only 24,503 m~2, the site is too tight. On the other hand, unlike the design by Kevin Roche (1922-2019) for the Oakland Museum (1969), where park spaces are provided on top of the museum, I thought of a building typology where the art museum and the activities of the park are not separate, but rather an integrated whole, making it possible to freely go out into the park from within the museum, or have park visitors, without realizing it, enter and enjoy the museum.