New Taipei City Museum of Art Proposal / OODA

Aug 2011

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Museums and Libraries , New Taipei City, OODA, Taiwan

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Courtesy of OODA

OODA shared with us their proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art which won the Merit Award in the international competition. The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit. OODA’s concept emerges from a big volumetric cube in confrontation with a smaller inner structure cube – hypercube which is an applied mathematical form that relates both. Then the big outer bisects the clamp (as structural elements) and sucks the in between surfaces to a central point creating a hypercube as the core. More images and architects’ description after the break.

ground floor plaza 01

The main museum is positioned above and the Children Museum of Art is located below the sheltered square that is created under the main sculptural piece. The Museum of Art itself flows on a continuous ramp between the outer skin and the hyper core cube inside all the way to the top.

Architects: OODA
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Francisco Rugeroni, Bence Pap, Ines Aires, Paulo Pulido, Duarte Fontes, Francisca Lopes dos Santos, Lourenço Rodrigues, Diogo Mesquita, Mariana Cardoso
Result: Merit Award

: Courtesy of OODA

: ground floor plaza 01

: ground floor plaza 02

: Courtesy of OODA

: Courtesy of OODA

: permanent exhibition space

: special exhibition space

: childrens’ exhibit room

: exhibit space plan

: museum lobby plan

: children museum of art plan

: ground floor plaza plan

: plans

: section perspective 01

: section perspective 02

: ground floor plaza functions diagram

: circulation diagram

: concept diagram

: program diagram

: circulation escalators diagram

: vertical circulation core diagram

: spiral circulation ramps diagram

: co2 off set strategy diagram

: rainwater, solar collection, natural ventilation system diagram

: structure stress analysis diagram

: main structural components-steel, concrete diagram

Cite:
Furuto , Alison . "New Taipei City Museum of Art Proposal / OODA" 28 Aug 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 23 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/163670>

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up_today_arch says:

nice form… very interesting, what is the structure for this building?…

# August 28, 2011 at 07:52

dioz says:

let’s do something weird, it’ll probably look good!
screw that…

# August 28, 2011 at 07:55

PretentiousGodKiller says:

You moron, you are using the same psychoanalytical structure in your own creations, like for instance your name.

Let’s call myself something weird like “dioz” which translate to ‘god’, it’ll probably look good on archdaily! screw you…

Just because in your vaguely pretentious godly mind doesn’t exist any reference to this shape means this is a bizarre building an we should all ignore this and continue making conventional 90 degrees angles. You’re so Mies!

# September 1, 2011 at 09:10

archi says:

OK. So how does an abstract mathematical concept express the “symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit”? Seems quite arbitary to me.

# August 28, 2011 at 10:25

Sophia says:

AMAZING!!

# August 28, 2011 at 10:54

ale gaddor says:

nice renders and 3d modeling.
nice 3d work.
no more comments.

# August 28, 2011 at 15:28

Andrei P says:

What software did they use for the structure stress analysis diagram?

# August 28, 2011 at 15:48

bLogHouse says:

Fancy math formulas and buzz words like “hypercube” do not make your concept more sophisticated, just more pretentious. Your concept scheme, without the math ‘smoke and mirrors’, is pretty simple, even bland – a regular cube inside a distorted one. I prefer reading about Hypercubes in sci-fi stories like Robert Heinlein’s rather than in snobbish attempts to impress the mathematically challenged architectural audience.

# August 29, 2011 at 02:33

Abdulaziz Almalki says: