KRIS YAO|ARTECH wins New Taipei City Museum of Art Design competition

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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This competition has attracted submission from many renowned architects, both locally and internationally. Six awarded projects will be exhibited at the lobby area of New Taipei City Hall starting from March 8th to 20th 2015. A following exhibition will be scheduled at Banqiao 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City starting from March 25th to April 22th 2015.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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New Taipei City Museum of Art is located in an area between Yingge and Sanshia in New Taipei City. The site faces Guishan and Yingge to the north, and Da Han River and Xue Mountains range to the south.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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The winning architecture design scheme presented by KRIS YAO|ARTECH will create “a Contemporary Museum of Art among the Reeds,” in this site both meaningful and grand in historical, cultural and geographical features.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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The building will fuse the local landscape and cultural imagery with an architectural vision to form a new sustainable architectural work. New Taipei City Museum of Art looks to transcend the current museum typology by being a more publicly accessible museum.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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At the base level of the building, the art streets and outdoor sculpture garden take a form imitating the cracks of the near-by Da Han River riverbed. By following the slope of the base, visitors can enjoy the sculptures in the sculpture park or linger around the art street.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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The main building mass is elevated over the site by a large-span structural system to provide the most flexible exhibition space and present the visitors with magnificent views of the surrounding river and mountains.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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The characteristic exterior look of New Taipei Museum of Art is composed of vertical structural tubes of different heights.  This vertically linear elevation concept is derived from the blurry beauty of reeds calmly swaying in the wind, and is an expression of the visual illusions, which are unpredictable and ever-changing.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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Through the design of the new museum of art, the architect, Kris Yao, wishes to create a “place” that would be embraced by the people, and create future memories that can be shared by the citizens of New Taipei City. Source by KRIS YAO|ARTECH.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan
Architect: KRIS YAO|ARTECH
Year: 2015
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New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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New Taipei City Museum of Art Design
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