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Old Posted Apr 5, 2008, 6:57 AM
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Kaohsiung National Performing Arts Center



Mecanoo architecten wins Taiwan's most prestigious project

Friday March 23rd the Governor of Kaohsiung announced that Mecanoo architecten has won the design competition for the new National Performing Arts Center in Kaohsiung. At 100,000 m2 the National Performing Arts Centre is to become the largest theatre complex in Taiwan. The theatre complex will be located in the Wei-Wu-Ying Metropolitan Park and features a concert hall, an opera house, a theatre, a black box with a total of 5,800 seats and an open-air theatre suitable for thousands of visitors. The surrounding 65 ha park is part of the design brief. Francine Houben, director of Mecanoo architecten, presented the winning competition design to an international jury of architects, theatre specialists and impresarios. Mecanoo’s design was unanimously selected because of the building’s strength in expression, the integration of the complex with the park, efficient logistical planning, advanced theatre design and facility techniques and the building design’s response to the subtropical climate of the city of Kaohsiung. The building costs for the theatre complex are € 200 million, the budget of the park is not yet known. Building construction will start at the beginning of 2009, in 2012 it will be completed.

The National Performing Arts Center will become the new icon of the city of Kaohsiung, the largest harbour city of Taiwan and one of the largest harbour cities in the world with 1.5 million inhabitants. By building the Performing Arts Center, the city will symbolize its evolution from a harbour city to a modern cultural city. An important source of inspiration for Mecanoo’s building design were the existing centuries-old banyan trees on location. The banyan tree is one of the world’s largest trees. The crown of the Banyan tree can grow so wide that according to legend, Alexander the Great took shelter underneath it with his entire army. Mecanoo’s building complex is 200 metres wide and 160 metres deep. Because of the openings in the roof, the passageways and open spaces, an almost porous building is created in which interior and exterior blur. The partially grass and plant covered roof creates natural and efficient building cooling in the subtropical climate. The large roof also provides an informal public space where the city residents can stroll, practice Tai Chi, mediate or just relax. Inspired by old Greek theatre, an open-air theatre was designed on the roof complex at the point where the roof dips to the ground. The surrounding park in turn becomes a stage.

Zaha Hadid from London won second prize. Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama Amorphe from Tokyo, Japan became third. In total 43 international architects entered the competition.

Programme: Theatre complex of 100,000 m2 with a concert hall of 2,300 seats, an opera house with 2,000 seats, a theatre hall with 1000 seats, an experimental Black Box with 500 seats, an open-air theatre and park design for 65 ha. Design: 2007. Client: Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan. Architect: Mecanoo architecten, Delft. Acoustic advisor: Xu Acoustique, Paris. Theatre advisor: Theateradvies, Amsterdam. Structural engineer: Arup, Amsterdam. Local architect: Hsing-Hua Lo Architects and Associates, Taipei. Building cost: € 200 million, excluding park.















Taiwan National Performing Arts Center

March 2008

Banyan Tree Inspires Shape of Taiwan’s Largest Arts Hall

By Andrew Yang

The Dutch firm Mecanoo is designing the largest performing arts facility in Taiwan: the 1-million-square-foot National Performing Arts Center. It will be located inside Wei-Wu-Ying Metropolitan Park, a former military base, in the city of Kaohsiung. Mecanoo won the commission in 2007 after competing against Zaha Hadid of London, Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama Amorphe of Tokyo, Artech Architects of Taiwan, and Weber + Hofer Architects of Switzerland.

The new arts center will contain five different performance spaces—a concert hall, opera house, and three theaters—all incorporated within a flowing, undulating topographical roof structure. Mecanoo principal Francine Houben says that this all-encompassing roof was inspired by the shape of the banyan tree, which is found on the site and grows only in subtropical climates. Banyan trees grow to be quite large and willowy but are distinguished by above-ground roots that grow as thick as the main trunk.

In Mecanoo’s building, while most of the performance halls are enclosed much of the remaining space is open. An open-air theater, for instance, will be located where the roof dips and meets the ground, providing a gently sloping surface that visitors can use to access a landscaped green roof. “We are most happy about that space because that’s where the client is thinking of making the performing arts stage,” Houben says. “We kind of make it a people’s palace, so it’s not a closed box where you have to pay to enter.”

The exterior of the building will be fitted with a mixed system of lights that could include LEDs as well as projectors. Houben says that construction is expected to be complete by 2012. Kaohsiung is Taiwan’s second most populated city and recently has been commissioning a series of notable projects including a stadium by Toyo Ito.


http://english.kscg.gov.tw/newsDetai...d=290&classId=







Mecanoo has designed an undulating topographical roof structure for Taiwan’s National Performing Arts Center (top). The design was inspired by the banyan tree, which features large, above-ground roots (middle). While the main concert hall will be enclosed, other performance spaces and atria will be open to the outdoors (above).




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Old Posted Apr 5, 2008, 1:05 PM
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this project, I feel depression.....................
I hate 國民黨........they want to change the location which I don't like...
The original location is in the harbour....
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yea it would be better if it was right on the waterfront, like sydney's opera house. how come bureaucrats always get it wrong?
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because location they said is very important for them......
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but at least it will be in a very nice, big green park. not much land available for park space on the waterfront.
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[新聞]高雄流行音樂中心新址 座落16、17號碼頭


文建會規畫的高雄流行音樂中心將座落何處?近來引發部分高市立委質疑當初選址欠缺完善考量,建議重新選址,高雄市府則堅持用地取得程序已經完備,也獲得高雄港務局與碼頭各工會同意,行政院作業也即將完成,堅持高雄港16、17號碼頭,將闢建為流行音樂中心,打造為高雄的雪梨音樂廳。

高市文化局強調,流行音樂中心設於高港16、17號碼頭,具有加速舊港區再生、串聯周邊文化創意產業,以及提升高雄城市再造,城市意象的多重意義,相關籌畫工作目前均依期程積極進行中。

至於,有立委以立法院決議文要求高市市府針對流行音樂中心定址事宜再行溝通協調,高市文化局、都發局指出,市府確實遵照立法院決議文規定,多方聆聽民間不同的聲音,擴大辦理「高雄港區1-22號碼頭水岸改造策略規畫第二次研討會」,廣邀民意代表、航商代表、建築師相關公會、藝文團體及高雄港務局參與。

高市文化局指出,除高雄捷運外,未來輕軌環狀路網更會建構便利的交通網,16、17號碼頭周邊的聯外道路及配套大眾運輸線市府已納入全盤規畫,附近的交通可以預期將會因流行音樂中心的設置而大幅改變,直接帶動整個舊港區的人潮及車流。

高雄流行音樂中心未來絕不僅是一座硬體設施而已,綜觀16、17號碼頭周邊,鄰近漢神商圈、五福商圈及三多商圈等,並有國賓飯店、金典酒店、漢來飯店等大飯店,復有香蕉棚、駁二藝術特區、電影館音樂館等人文景點。

流行音樂中心置於此,將具引動整個區塊經濟機能、進而帶動相關產能群聚的效用,舊港區將因高雄流行音樂中心的設置徹底改變,重塑港區新風華及加速城市升級的多重意義。


The project finally locate in harbour site!
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The chicken talking to the duck..........

高雄流行音樂中心 = Kaohsiung Popular Music Center (waterfront)
高雄國家藝術文化中心 = National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center (former military base)
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The chicken talking to the duck..........

高雄流行音樂中心 = Kaohsiung Popular Music Center (waterfront)
高雄國家藝術文化中心 = National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center (former military base)
which one's the chicken and which one's the duck? and why are they both even considered fowl?
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The chicken talking to the duck..........

高雄流行音樂中心 = Kaohsiung Popular Music Center (waterfront)
高雄國家藝術文化中心 = National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center (former military base)
I am wrong ! I am a small chicken!!
This project call 衛武營 藝文中心 National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center.
Damn...............
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very good project! i like the rendering
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