Kinmen Library and Art Museum, Fukien District Taiwanese Building Design, Modern Taiwan Architecture Images
Kinmen Library and Art Museum in Taiwan
21 Nov 2022
Architects: Eddea/Luis Ybarra + Leching Chiang
Location: Kinmen Island, Fukien, Taiwan

Kinmen Library and Art Museum, Fukien
On Kinmen Island, off the southeast coast of mainland China and governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), almost at its geometric center, stands the hill where the Special Art and Culture Zone Base, formerly Runan Second Camp District, is located.

It used to be the garrison area for the brigade-level troops in the middle section of the Kinmen Defense Command and its infrastructure is preserved as historical heritage mostly at the higher part of the hill.
The Kinmen Library and Art Museum project site is located at the foot of the hill, below the military viewpoint, and its three most charac-teristic elements are the military trench, the depressed wetland and the group of protected trees.

The building proposed understands these three elements and interacts with them: it reconstructs the edge of the depressed wetland leaving 100% of protected trees untouched and provides the opportunity of a new interpretation of the trench as a landscape element.
In the points of drainage from the hill into the wetland, the building opens up internal patios that connect with the landscape. Around such common spaces the three main program blocks are articulated: mu-seum, library and multifunct...