Taichung Art Museum
Transparent Cultural Forest of Freedom, Aesthetics, Knowledge Flow, and Exploration.
Taichung Green Museumbrary is Taiwan’s first venue combining a municipal art museum and public library. Opening at the end of 2025, it sits on the northern edge of Taichung Central Park, with a floor area of about 58,000 square metres.
The architecture features eight interconnected yet independently articulated volumes, forming an integrated space for both museum and library. It expresses a new cultural identity through openness, transparency, and fluidity. In harmony with its environment, the large volumes are divided into smaller, human-scale cubes and wrapped in a silver-white façade that reflects and softly echoes the surrounding park and cityscape, blending into context. Elevated structures create shaded, multi-layered plazas beneath, inviting greenery, breeze, and sunlight. With entrances from all directions—city or park—the building welcomes visitors into an open, inclusive cultural space, offering a new architectural landscape inspired by nature.
Learning here goes beyond the written word; it includes appreciating art. By merging the distinct qualities of knowledge and art with accessible information, the building supports varied experiences. Inside, spaces of different scales— exhibition rooms, reading areas, public zones—rise and fall, converge and disperse. This rhythm enriches the interplay between knowledge and art. Visitors of all ages and backgrounds find their own ways to engage, forming personal links between learning and daily life. Here, people encounter knowledge, art, and nature in spontaneous ways and experience culture with comfort, ease, and elegance amid the rhythms of contemporary life.
