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The project is SANAA\u2019s largest cultural work to date and their first public building in Taiwan<\/a>. It consists of eight low-profile, interlinked structures that gently settle into the landscape. The buildings are clad in glass and smooth metal panels and wrapped in a secondary skin of expanded aluminum mesh that appears suspended, catching light across the facade in changing patterns throughout the day.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Each volume is designed with a different scale and function, distributed horizontally to encourage movement between its programs without strict boundaries. This open spatial strategy underscores SANAA\u2019s intention to prioritize a more fluid and communal public experience within institutions.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Transparency, Permeability and sunLight<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Taichung Green Museumbrary is designed by SANAA<\/a> and Ricky Liu & Associates Architects + Planners<\/a> to lift lightly from the ground. This allows for the breeze and natural light of the park to flow beneath and through. Broad, shaded plazas between and below the buildings create a porous interface with the surrounding landscape. Multiple entrances allow visitors to enter from all directions, reinforcing the building\u2019s openness to the city.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The dual-layer facade of metal mesh over low-e glass and metal cladding produces a soft, luminous exterior that diffuses the sun and reinforces a sense of airiness. These quiet formal gestures are central to the so-called museumbrary\u2019s identity as a place for slow engagement with art, literature, and learning.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A Rooftop Forest and Park Integration<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Atop the building, the rooftop Cultural Forest offers elevated views across the Central Park and city skyline. Designed as a continuation of the site\u2019s landscape, the rooftop is accessible to the public and extends the building\u2019s civic presence vertically. The garden reinforces the project\u2019s central concept: a library in a park and a museum in a forest.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Within, the library will house over one million physical and digital resources. Exhibition spaces within the art museum have been configured to accommodate a wide range of media, scales, and curatorial approaches, including large installations and performance.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The opening of the Taichung Art Museum is marked by a major exhibition, \u2018A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place,\u2019 curated by Yi-Hsin Lai and an international team. Drawing from the museum\u2019s collection and new commissions, the show explores relationships between human and non-human worlds, set in conversation with the building\u2019s open architecture.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Highlights include site-specific installations by Adrien Tirtiaux and Seunghyun Moon, archival materials from The Little Prince, a kinetic kite piece by Joan Jonas, and new works by artists including Haegue Yang, Michael Lin, Chia-En Jao, and Myrlande Constant. The program also features performance and video by TAI Body Theatre and YiLab, and contributions from local publication White Fungus.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n By uniting an art museum and a public library in one horizontally connected structure, SANAA reconsiders how cultural institutions function in contemporary urban settings.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa explain, \u2018We have always hoped to create an open building that many people can easily participate in. Whether it is the museum providing visual learning through art or the library offering education through literature, combining the two to create a new multifaceted learning space is what we believe to be one of the main characteristics of this building. We have carefully considered how to gently link the two entities together to create a place that connects learning and communication for people.\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The project\u2019s lightweight and permeable vocabulary supports this ambition by blurring distinctions between spaces and softening transitions between indoors and outdoors. SANAA\u2019s design situates the act of learning within the rhythms of everyday life and within the sensory immediacy of the surrounding park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"sanaA\u2019s Campus of Interconnected Volumes \u00a0 Taichung Green Museumbrary is taking shape with architecture by SANAA in collaboration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1544,76,354,355,49,48,356,75,1545,1546,1547],"class_list":{"0":"post-1008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-in-taiwan","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-library-architecture-and-design","17":"tag-museums-and-galleries","18":"tag-sanaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"sanaa](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sanaa-taichung-green-museum-city-cultural-center-taiwan-designboom-01.jpg\")
visualizations courtesy Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taichung City Government<\/p>\n![\"sanaa](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sanaa-taichung-green-museum-city-cultural-center-taiwan-designboom-02.jpg\")
the project opens in December 2025 as Taiwan\u2019s first combined art museum and library<\/p>\n![\"sanaa](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sanaa-taichung-green-museum-city-cultural-center-taiwan-designboom-03.jpg\")
the building was designed by SANAA with local firm Ricky Liu & Associates<\/p>\n![\"sanaa](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sanaa-taichung-green-museum-city-cultural-center-taiwan-designboom-04.jpg\")
eight interconnected volumes are clad in glass and expanded metal mesh<\/p>\n