Kris Yao Artech 姚仁喜 大元建築工場

New Taipei City Art Museum

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

New Taipei City Art Museum

KRIS YAO | ARTECH

CLIENTS
Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Government

ARCHITECT
Chris Yao

STRUCTURE CONSULTANTS
Arup, Chuang Wei Structural Engineering Inc.

LIGHTING CONSUTLANT
Chroma33 Architectural Lighting Design Inc.

MEP
Arup

HVAC
I. S. LIN & Associates Consulting Engineers

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
SWA Group

LANDSCAPE EXECUTION
CNHW Planning & Design Consultants

ACOUSTICS
Shen Milsom & Wilke, Xu-Acoustique

DESIGN TEAM
Young Kang, Kuo-Chien Shen, Chien-Yi Wu, Winnie Wang, Meng-Fan Yang, Shwo-Huey Yeh, Ming-Hung She, William Ho, Ke-Huan Wen, Eric Jap, Hui-Chi Chen, Po-Yen Tai, Young Kang, Yen-Ling Hsu, Wei-Hsuan Lin, Cindy Huang

CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION TEAM
Jun-Ren Chou, Tien-Sheng Tsai, Sky Lin, Jun-Shun Wang, Willy Yu, Tien-Yu Lo, Bill Chen, Ming-Nan Lee

INSPECTION ARCHITECT
Glen Lu

CONTRACTORS
Joyear Group Construction Co., Ltd.

FAÇADE
maRco façade Studio

STAGE DESIGN
Creative Solution Integration Ltd.

PHOTOGRAPHS
KRIS YAO | ARTECH, Shephotoerd Co.

AREA
32641 m²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
New Taipei, Taiwan

CATEGORY
Museum

Text description provided by architect.

The New Taipei City Art Museum is situated on reclaimed land at the convergence of the Yingge River and Dahan River.

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

The gently sloping site resembles an island within the flowing streams, offering captivating views of the majestic mountain and river landscapes. To the north lies Guilun Mountain, while to the south, the museum overlooks the Dahan River and Xueshan Range.

Drawing inspiration from the region's rich history and culture, the design incorporates elements such as the dry riverbed, the quaint charm of old streets and brick buildings, and the swaying reeds, particularly abundant during the autumn and winter seasons, to create a modern and prospective architectural form, a "museum of modern and contemporary art among the reeds."

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

The design intelligently blends the natural and the fabricated, interpreting elements of one in the form of the other, and vice versa. The distinctive façade is composed of a series of sandblasted aluminum tubes of varying heights and lengths, paired with vertically segmented three-color aluminum panels arranged in a staggered manner.

From afar, this linear screen conjures the blurry beauty of reeds swaying in the wind, concealing the solid exhibition box that so often suggests a building of its typology. It cleverly mirrors the ever-changing natural environment and landscape on the facade, attracting people with its unique architectural appearance to visually experience the fleeting changes in the vastness.

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

At ground level, the fair-faced concrete art village unfolds to reveal a network of art streets and sculpture terraces. This new museum follows the concept of a museum 'open to all'.

Visitors can freely wander around the outdoor terraces lined with cafes, workshops, and restaurants, spatially organized in the same manner as the old streets of Yingge and Sanxia.

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

They can also participate in various art activities, linger to admire open installations, or follow the brick pavement to the hilltop and overlook the landscape.

Above the village floats the steel-structured art museum, whose rigid rectangular mass disappears behind a swaying reedbed indicated by numerous vertical tubes of various heights. The long-span structural system ensures the most flexible exhibition space.

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

A grand staircase leads visitors to the elevated lobby on the second floor, granting access to the four types of display spaces: general exhibition rooms, large-scale exhibition rooms, international exhibition rooms, and special-themed exhibition areas.

A garden restaurant stands on the roof, where dining guests can enjoy an extensive view of the Da Han Riverscape. Another design feature is the individual circulation to the operation management center and collection storage that expedites control and security measures.

The open art village embraces an original concrete materiality to showcase the geographic typology formed by the erosion of the Dahan River. The architectural concrete walls feature a texture imprinted by diagonally arranged cedar wood planks, contrasting with the rugged chiseled surfaces at the top and sides.

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio
New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio

The robust grainy concrete walls and brick pavements create a winding and dynamic spatial arrangement, establishing an artistic space intertwined with nature.

The landscape bridge at the entrance of the site is constructed using weathering steel, which develops unique color and texture over time.
Within this natural setting, it harmonized with the blurred façade of the art museum, serving as the starting point to guide visitors into the museum to explore further.

New Taipei City Art Museum
© Shephotoerd Co., Iwan Baan, Shawn Liu Studio


New Taipei City Art Museum
Plan - 1st Floor
New Taipei City Art Museum
Plan - 1st Mezanine Floor
New Taipei City Art Museum
Plan - 2nd Floor
New Taipei City Art Museum
Wall Detail - 2nd Floor
New Taipei City Art Museum
Plan - 4th Floor
New Taipei City Art Museum
Plan - 6th Floor


New Taipei City Art Museum
Section L
New Taipei City Art Museum
Section S
New Taipei City Art Museum
Elevation SW
New Taipei City Art Museum
Wall Detail - Bottom

Kris Yao Artech 姚仁喜 大元建築工場
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Kris Yao Artech 姚仁喜 大元建築工場
11 Building, 168 DunHua N Rd, Songshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10548 台北市敦化北路168號11樓