Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center
Location
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Status
Designed 2011
Client
Kaohsiung City Government
Type
Civic, Cultural
Size
821,300 sf
Sustainability
Targeted Gold (Taiwan Green Building Certification)
Tags
With its port city at an important post-industrial crossroads, the government of Kaohsiung hosted a global competition to rejuvenate a key former industrial site with live music venues and a maritime museum.
Studio Gang’s design engages the city’s infrastructure and urban waterfront, weaving together architecture and landscape to infuse a vibrant energy throughout the building and to the harbor beyond.
The performance venues, uniquely shaped by the acoustical conditions of the site, direct noise out to the vast harbor, away from nearby residences. Together, the architecture and landscape prioritize access to the harbor for people—rather than industry.
Reshaped and reclaimed, the new waterscape has multiple environmental benefits, becoming an estuarine link along Kaohsiung’s developing network of flood storage and water-quality improvement parks.
Awards
Third Prize, Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center International Competition, 2011
Consultant Team
JJ Pan and Partners, associate architect
Arup Dublin, structural engineer
Arup Hong Kong, MEP/BP and fire protection consultant
DHV (Royal HaskoningDHV), acoustics consultant
dUCKS scéno, scenography consultant
SCAPE, landscape architect
