NPMSB

national palace museum
competetion i slaved over...
time card had read over 500hours the month of submitting the proposal...
unfortunately our boss' presentation blew our good chance of winning this project.

anyhoo, the idea was to create a museum that physically as well as programaticaly emphasize an 'Asian museum'

the program is divided over a chain of artificailly made archipelago. these programs are then wrapped around the lace-like arabesque patter structure to encompass bldgs, islands, and landscape into a whole. the arabesque pattern was chosen as a common theme seen in architctural elements which traveled across the asian continent assimilating and adapting to each and every culture and environment is passed thru. we wanted to creat an extention of this history thru a modern interpretation of an arabesque pattern that becomes a structure as well as a shading device for the interior space.



- main critique was that this project would become too much of an iconic rival to that of the Beijing Olympic Stadium by Herzog De Meuron...which i heard was not going too welll.... and which the taiwanese officials wanted to avoid as a possible conflict





some picts from the teamm