TAIPEI CITY MUSEUM MENG-FAN YANG

The city museum’s role is not only an

exhibition venue for cultural or historical

relics, but also a dynamic live platform

containing citizen's living activities. Because

Taipei has a relative brief urban history, we

need to find the way to create more events

or memory while raising the history value.

Through the films, people can easily learn

the city’s historical stories and background

in a vivid way. Therefore, I utilized films

to tell Taipei stories in the museum and

reflected them to the real landscape of

Taipei. The viewers could have stronger

perception on the city’s story and history.

Taipei City MuseumArranging the history context by films and creating a public space for citizen’s daily life

TIME / SEP 2008

PERIOD /MASTER PROJECT 2, NCTU, TAIWAN

WORK /INDIVIDUAL WORK

SITE /TAIPEI, TAIWAN

PURPOSE / A PLACE FOR INTRODUCING THE CITY

KEY WORD / UNDER BRIDGE, FILMS

Weave spaces and programs

History as the stratum

showing the old and new

The process of history development is like the stratum which has been accumulated for long time. When we see its section, the new layer is still keeping accumulating. Therefore, a museum should serve as a history display space and also a new story record platform at the same timeme time.

Variety of space experience

People can have two or more views on one process, while I place the city history story in respond to the real environment.

A place which can connect citizen's life and memory

A place which can know past and accumulate history

history exhibition space

Films / cultural or historical relics

views of improtant architectureactivity spcace connect with real view of city

variety circulations

The CONCEPT of the space arrangement

I created two circulations and WEAVE space of history exhibition and activity space which are connected in reality.

GOALs /

Films record historical story, life situation, colors of city, dress

style and culture...etc..

天橋不見了

你那邊幾點

台北 21

最好的時光

Films in Taipei Main place and object Meaning of place Relationship with role and place Diagram from films Program type

How do films select and describe story elements

There are three(four) phases of Taipei history about films, Democratic time, Martial law time, Japanese colonial rule and Modern. The important events, stories and staff have strong connection with the city’s history and development. According to the description of the city in the films, about the life style and living attitude, people could learn and experience the history background about the city easier. Therefore, I selected the events from

Films Analysis

<What Time It Is >

2001

2002

2002

1960

2005

<Taipei 21>

<A Brigter Summer Day>

<Twenty Something Taipei>

<The Skywalk Is Gone >

CITY HISTORY LINE

Films in Taipei Key

Dihua old street 1850

Ximen district 1908

East district 1984

Xinyi district 1990

Neihu district 2004

Nangang district 2007

Shilin district 1950

Taipei station1918

T I M E

S P A C E MEMORY

E V E N /S T O R Y

MEMORY E V E N

S O C I A L ACTIVITY S P A C E

variety circulations variety circulations

Conclusion of the analysis

<What Time It Is >

2001

2002

2002

1960

2005

<Taipei 21>

<A Brigter Summer Day>

<Twenty Something Taipei>

<The Skywalk Is Gone >

Site analysis

According to the location of important historical place and architecture, I found that there is a "History Line" follow a bridge and across the center of Taipei city. It's also like a history line in a museum; people would allow the time to understand the history about Taipei.

CITY HISTORY LINE

OLD IRRIGATION-RIVER WATER

WATER

SMALL PLAZA

SMALL PLAZABRIDGE

EAST DISTRICT 1984

XIMEN DISTRICT 1908

DIHUA OLD STREET 1850

XINYI DISTRICT 1990

NANGANG DISTRICT 2007

OLD BER FACTORY

(OLD FACTORY) CULTURE CREATIVE PARK TAIPEI STSTION 1918

SHILIN

DIST

RIC

T 1

950

NEIHU DISTRICT 2004

Finding a history development line and locating Taipei City Museum

The city museum should be located to the city center, so people could often visit it in daily life. Therefore, the place would near the commercial area and on the historical line also.

Main commercial area has moved from place to place

From the main commercial area moving, we also could find the city context.

River always is a city’s starting point and an irrigation-river is a second key for the city development extending

An irrigation ditch, Liou Gong Zun, is an important key to give a life to the city in the early days.However, its glory and story has been faded, because most part of this ditch had been covered and invisible.

Historical architectures in Taipei city Map

According to the historical architecture placed in the city map, we could find context about the city development.

Choosing site from Taipei map and films

site connecting

Information /Publice space/

Life activity/story/Sociality space/

To connect with the old elements and to renew it for new activities.

variety circulations

Programs setting

Base on the films analysis, I can divide programs into four categories, Time, Event, Object and Activity, and mix the programs in a liner space as the city museum.

Films analysising Key Point

T I M E

S P A C E MEMORY

E V E N /S T O R Y

MEMORY E V E N

S O C I A L ACTIVITY S P A C E

Motnage space

Because of the history space and story was in the past, not exists now or in the future, creating the old story space by Montage is a way to increase the real feeling in the museum. On the other hand, creating the interest of the process on the display line is also helping the museum to become a popular public spot.

Films editing

MONTAGE / in architecture language means construct and assemble. It is frequently applied in three kinds of art area. It's also a collage technique on films editing about the space, place and people.Montage is one of approaches that direct describes a story with a series of short frame and combines them with an arrangement by different views, place and distance...etc.

Creative GeographyMontage films in architecture is a interesting editing approach to create a not existed space with different shoots

Programs diagram in space

Section

Plan

storage

book editing studiofilms storage

relics storage

back stage

facilities space

historial show room 1, 2, 3

city story librarycity image room

city relics room

public stage

city music room

Subsidary Programs

Main Programs

Programs diagram in space

Story space and activity space

The space is fallowing Montage under the bridge.

Those showrooms are aligned with the city’s history line. It's a line bridging people to city’s view on past story in the films and current scenery.

Taipei City Museum

In the museum, people can understand the history story about Taipei by films. Also there is a new place that young people would like to meet friends and have some activities. The new city memory would keep going to record the city story.

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pac

e 1950s~

1980s

A sp

ace 1991s~

1950s

past

modern

C sp

ace 1980s~

2000s