OVERVIEW

In view of the fact that the existing Taoyuan arts and cultural facilities are mainly for dynamic performing arts activities and for small exhibition events which are inadequate for displaying visual arts and large arts exhibition, also there is no dedicated institution to coordinate arts events and store professional
art works, Taoyuan city government realizes that an international Art Museum is needed for encouraging local and international arts exchange activities and serves as a platform for improving local arts literacy.

Taoyuan Museum of Art will situated in park 12 and park 13 area within Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) Taoyuan Station Zone, adjacent to Taoyuan International Airport MRT A19 station. Taoyuan Museum of Arts shall integrate Taoyuan local cultural characteristics and the sparkling faery landscape that spill across the Taoyuan tableland, and sculpt the building itself to become a part of museum collections. The goal of Taoyuan Museum of Arts is to collect and exhibit locally and combine digital multimedia to form an Art learning playground wanted to make up the deficiencies of professional art education for Taoyuan area.

By way of setting up a museum featuring Taoyuan arts trend, it will elevate the level of sophistication and independency of Taoyuan arts development and provide Taoyuan citizens a venue to cultivate aesthetic appreciation, a leisure facility. TMoA also serves the purpose of balancing urban and rural development. Taoyuan Museum of Art will nourish art attainments for citizens and create an art-rich city through the coordination of cultural and arts events.

To construct an Art Museum incorporating international vision, local history, innovation and artists incubation.

1. Bringing in diversity of contemporary arts by way of linking an international airport concept.

2. Inheriting Taoyuan arts development trend and revitalizing the memory of local arts.

3. Encouraging young citizens to come back and cultivating new talented artists.

The spatial pattern of demand for Taoyuan Museum of Art includes permanent exhibition space, special exhibition space, collection storage space, continuing education space, administrative space, cultural tourism information space, affiliated commercial space, service space and etc. The construction project consists of the works of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering, air conditioning engineering, interior decoration, waterproofing, heat insulation, doors and windows installation, elevator equipment installation, landscaping, outdoor parking area, special decoration and equipments, fixed furniture, special decoration and special equipments for permanent exhibition space (including seismic isolation devices for displaying items), special decoration and special equipments for public areas, special decoration and special equipments for collections storage space, special decoration and special equipments for conference rooms and multi-function performing space, signage system, building seismic isolation, and so on. In addition, the scope of the project also includes building a new footbridge connecting park 12 and park 13.

1. Exhibition space

The main display area is designed for visual arts, contemporary arts, digital arts and new media arts, The characteristics of display space should give a modern atmosphere different from the boring ones accompanying traditional art museums. In addition, the display space design should take into account of the requirement for lighting equipment, hanging equipment, decoration materials, and reserve the flexibility for installing extra light tracks and hanging points should future need arises.

2. Continuing education space

Including art library, auditorium hall multi-purpose show space, demonstration classrooms, young artist workshops, children’s art education center, children’s art education resource center, children’s art classrooms, and DIY art classrooms.

(1) Auditorium hall

The proscenium-arch stage is characterized by the construction in front of the stage which divides the lecture hall into two parts: the performance area and the audience area. It is suitable for various performance forms. The related equipment and space must be able to be quickly converted to each other for complex scenery lighting switching in line with today’s performance art pursuit of the rich visual requirements. It is also in conformity with usage of most performance groups.

Room shape:for the audience, attending a good speech and watchingan excellent performance in the seat is the main purpose of the space design. Therefore, the arrangement and form of the audience seatingmust provide a clear view of the stageand the clear sound transmission for every audience. The audience seating shall be stratified in appropriate proportions or divided into different areas. The walkways and the row spacing shall be reasonable and sufficient so that the audience can easily reach their seats and watch the show comfortably. Above the audience seating, there are constructions and equipment required for lights, speakers, etc. in addition to the ceiling supporting the sound quality. These constructions and equipmentshall be installed in appropriate locationswith reasonable quantityin consideration of the scale of the stage for audience to watch the showwithout interfere and for the staff member to use and operate easily. There are control rooms for stage, lighting, sound, projection and interpretation behind the audience seating.

(2) Young artists workshops

Besides providing the studio and boarding space for resident artists, the workshops should have sharing kitchen, laundry space, dining and living space as well as a space for mutual communication.

(3) Children’s art education resource center and children’s art classrooms.

There should be a dedicated space for children aesthetic education and hopefully it will become a regional resource center for children art education. The design should be bright, rich in colors with diverse features to accommodate children’s innocent and lively characteristics.

“Children art education resource center” is an information center to support children’s art education. “Children’s Arts Classrooms” should provide an art education space for primary school students in order to negate shortage of professional art classrooms in primary schools. Children can learn arts through games, innovation, exploration, observation, experience, imagination, etc. Hopefully children can practice sensing beauty from livelihood around.

To accommodate the diverse ways for children’s arts learning, children’s art educating activities should effectively utilize the outdoor space to facilitate art learning through static and dynamic, indoor and outdoor as well as parent-child interaction event types.

3. Cultural tourism information area

Taoyuan has many cultural centers, exhibition space, small public and private art museum to organize variety of cultural feast activities. It is worth to link all cultural activity with cultural tourism information space.

4. Subsidiary business area

Including art museum shops, souvenir centers, art bookstores, cafes, creative cultural shops and other associated public space.

5. Administrative area

Administrative area is to accommodate operating offices, conference rooms, area for management and other uses. It should be located in the area with good ventilation, lighting, view and with an independent access route, which differs from the traditional design to locate the space in the less than desired area of the premises.

6. Parking area

Including tour buses, vehicle, motorbike and bicycle parking space.

In order to meet the schedule: hardware completion in June 2022 and grand opening in December 2022, it is planned to conduct the tendering process for planing, design and construction supervision of Taoyuan Museum of Art project (include footbridge) in the second half of year 2017. In order to effectively connect the museum and its surrounding environment, tenderer must also complete the basic landscape design for surrounding environment.

1. Strengthen the function of the museum, enhance the value of the museum.

(1) Set up municipal art performance theater and amplify art exhibition type.

(2) Make Taoyuan Museum of Art to become Taiwan’s largest municipal museum richest in exhibition content by exploiting the following advantage points: being close to the international airport, convenient transportation, increasing the development capacity of the public park 13 through renewed urban planning, adding public park 12 into the project premises. Attract domestic and foreign art lovers to visit.

(3) Make Taoyuan Museum of Art to become the best Taiwan museum in preserving art works by installing seismic isolation devices to enhance the chance to solicit future art exhibitions.

2. Manifest the distinct characteristics of the museum by embedding itself within green belt and waterscape.

(1) Set up an art education center, including children’s art education space, young artists creation space and art performance space.

(2) The site includes Chintan Park (public park 12) which enhances connection between the museum and the unique eco-pond system of Taoyuan city.

(3) Connect Chintan park’s green belt, waterscape and the museum through a footbridge.

3. Create a platform designated for Taoyuan parent-child art education and for cultivating local young artists.

(1) Strengthen children’s and youth’s art educating function and enhance artistic participation desire and creative interest of the citizens.

(2) Make good use of the surrounding green belt and waterscape to create an inducing space that will encourage young artists to create art works and cultivate the next generation artists.

(3) Connect multi-faceted waterscape, green belt, bicycle lanes and arts element to form a parent-child relaxation park.

4. Art institution extended to neighboring area

Propose to plan the landscape in Taiwan high speed railway Taoyuan station zone. Offer advice regarding urban design guidelines covering the area from MRT A19 station to Laojie creek. Conduct basic design for public street utilities. Suggest means to transform the landscape of the nearby Swiss apartment complex.