Taipei Fine arts museum

This proposed Art Park is part of an ambitious cultural initiative to expand the Taipei Fine Arts Museum onto a 13-acre site near the Keelung and Tamsui Rivers, with new gallery spaces, visitor amenities and administrative offices situated underground or emerging through the new landscape in discrete blocks. The park itself would transform a portion of a previous expo site and open it to the public, while retaining a beloved playground on the south end of the site.

The park is organized to accentuate views to the nearby mountains and to choreograph a series of meandering pathways through landscape rooms of distinct character. A forested hillside atop dramatic new landforms embody these principles most directly, offering views north, south and west over and beyond the park, and screening off an adjacent military site to the east. A central meadow and perennial fields; stepped pools and ponds; a sunken courtyard of ancient trees; and a lively events plaza offer unique landscape experiences for the public and a variety of settings for the museum’s sculpture collection and exhibitions. All are lushly planted in ways to provide ample shade and to funnel cooling breezes.

The overall scheme, developed with collaborator Shu Chang & Associates Architects, better organizes the museum entry and visitor experience for an expanded audience, while extending its mission and footprint into a new, verdant, and lively landscape, open to all.