Jia Ping-wa Museums of Art

PrizeHonorable Mention in Interior Design /
Firm LocationTaipei City, Taiwan
CompanyCHU-Studio
Lead ArchitectAlfie Shao
Design TeamYung-Hsin Yang LIE FIE TJHOI
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This museum is designed for Jia's attainments as a culture bearer. However, the main exhibition hall try to create childhood memories of Jia’s Courtyard House, which around the trees in the courtyard patio to read, while sloping roofs form responses Jia Ping-wa Museum of Art itself architectural technique, through the contemporary abstract expressionists will transform the original structure to a circle cylinder, which also a bookcase, straight to the zenith. Around its surrounding the creation of contemporary artists. A symbol of unshakable tree and knowledge immortalized eternal.The architectural design derives from Jia Ping-wa’s honest and reserved personality and also the cultural conflictions in his literature. It is a “ho- yuan” architecture descripted by contemporary terms as simple, hale and generous. The outer buildings are built with yellow-grey stones; a traditional style in the central shaanxi plain. Through sanding and scratching, the building is filled with a sense of deep history and, at the same time, reveals some contemporary atmosphere.