TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM
Taiwan
,China
Application: Contour Lighting
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum opened in 1983 and is located next to Taipei Flower Expo Park. It is the first contemporary art museum in Taiwan. In recent years, the museum has utilized the plaza in front of it to propose an innovative experimental platform called "X-site."
X-site focuses on the connection between architecture and artistic creation, exploring diverse meanings and aesthetic possibilities through architecture. Each year, a temporary architectural installation is selected to serve as an experiential space that combines architecture and art events, stimulating the public's re-perception and attention towards their relationship with the environment.
Responding to this 2021's theme of X-Reality, the artists chose to consider the feeling of doom brought by post-industrial architecture and to use sound as a building material to create a synesthetic experience. The team created a tower-shaped vessel that stores energy and simulates explosions with light waves, sound, and vibrations.
The accumulation of these events and their physical energy create a dynamic game-like ambient zone. Audiences will be able to experience the structure through the different senses of touch, sight, and hearing.