The Taichung Green Museumbrary by SANAA weaves architecture and nature into a new cultural landmark. The project combines a library and museum program while embedding green spaces across the building’s roof and terraces, making the landscape an integral element of its form and experience.

Curved volumes define different programmatic zones while allowing sightlines through gardens above and around. Interior spaces open to lush terraces, and skylights puncture roof planes to bring daylight deep into galleries and reading rooms. The structural design employs light frames and floor plates that cantilever gently, extending library floors into exterior terraces. Planting beds are built into these terraces, blurring the boundary between inside and outside. With its layered gardens and open, transparent volumes, Taichung Green Museumbrary signals a new direction for civic architecture where culture and ecology cohabit fluidly in built form.

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