This is the first time I've been back since 2019, I feel like in recent years, every time when I visit home, I'd apply everything I learned abroad to reinterpret and re-appreciate the beauty of Taiwan. For example, I'd study the urban planning layout and the history of certain city, and then come back and apply that same critical lens to re-think the entire heritage of Tainan City. In a sense, as I mature and hone my skillset, my hometown is also growing with me proportionally. With that being said, there had been lots of new architecture happening while I was gone so I got to do my rounds and check out some updates. I've done a brief blog on my city back in 2017 so make sure you check out the prequel of this blog post with the link below: www.hsunico.com/life/hometown-love Tainan Museum / Shigeru Ban / 2019 This was one of my most anticipated one for the trip, there is just something about your hometown getting a Pritzker Prize winner building that absolutely excites me. Shigeru Ban won the competition back in 2014 and the building was finally completed in late 2019. The massing itself stacks up as a vertical city to create elevated parks and niches that reflect on the surrounding context. The massive signature roof hovers over the "city" as a canopy that reads like a veil. This one is like a cousin of both the Centre Pompidou-Metz and the renovation project of the former architecture school in Nanterre. In terms of the spatial experience, it does remind me of the Louis Vuitton Foundation by Frank Gehry in Paris. Below is one of the renderings from the competition submission back in 2014 and the physical model showing the dense urban fabric in the historic quarter of the city.
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AboutThis blog was launched in August, 2015 during my 8th year of studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain. I decided to start this blog and record some of my thoughts and moments. This blog is also dedicate to Richard Fu, a good friend of mine who is now guarding me from above. He inspired me to get out of the comfort zone and be curious about the world. Amig@'s blogs
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September 2023
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