Second largest city on the island of Taiwan, Taichung has launched a vast urban and architectural project. Following the opening of its large “climate park” in the summer of 2018, the city will host the Taichung Intelligence Operation Center (TIOC) in 2021. Proposed by Elizabeth de Portzamparc, this IGH tower will house a digital cultural center, offices, shops and a restaurant.
The first so-called “4th generation” urban tower, it was designed as a sustainable neighborhood and a vector of human interaction, an urban architecture offering another way of practicing and experiencing the space. The main qualities of this type of avant-garde tower lie in its openness, its integration into the context and its relationship to the city. This large interconnected vertical district integrates all the urban and spatial links that can be found on the ground and in the city, and makes them continue within it. A continuity in the visual promenade is maintained in order to have the least impact on the landscape of the city. The tower is no longer an interruption of urbanity, it becomes its extension.
This quest for openness goes first through the base of the tower and its lower floors, considered as public spaces because they are connected to the neighborhood and the city. The park extends into the tower and invests the heart of the project through the transparent ground floor which is open to the public and constitutes an invitation to discover the activities offered on the lower floors. Ribbon walkways connect the first levels and wrap around the building in an upward movement, breaking the traditional barrier between interior and exterior, between private and collective spaces. Thanks to the porosity of the ground, under the footbridges, the project offers the city a large covered square at the foot of the tower, a public space perfectly adapted to the climate of Taichung. Large atriums are laid out at the foot of the building: connecting 3 to 4 storey levels, they thus create central interaction spaces. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which occasionally widen into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which widen from time to time into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Strengthening its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which occasionally widen into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. constituting as many nodes of local interest, supports of social interactions and conviviality. Strengthening its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. constituting so many nodes of local interest, media for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. shopping malls on the ground floor and on the walkways, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. shopping malls on the ground floor and on the walkways, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres.
Conceived as a symbol of innovation and sustainable architecture, the project has developed around a transversal reflection on the site, the morphology, the spatiality, the materials and the design of the facade, with the aim of obtaining a zero energy building. More than a simple aesthetic gesture, its design expresses a strong conceptual intention: a search for economy of forms and raw materials.
The design of the TIOC aims to promote "being together", to plan and build a common future, to create the conditions favoring the emergence of a collective thought necessary for the research carried out by this digital center. Thanks to the complementarity between artificial and human intelligence, this tower promotes the development of innovations that our civilization badly needs in the current context.
Second largest city on the island of Taiwan, Taichung has launched a vast urban and architectural project. Following the opening of its large “climate park” in the summer of 2018, the city will host the Taichung Intelligence Operation Center (TIOC) in 2021. Proposed by Elizabeth de Portzamparc, this IGH tower will house a digital cultural center, offices, shops and a restaurant.
The first so-called “4th generation” urban tower, it was designed as a sustainable neighborhood and a vector of human interaction, an urban architecture offering another way of practicing and experiencing the space. The main qualities of this type of avant-garde tower lie in its openness, its integration into the context and its relationship to the city. This large interconnected vertical district integrates all the urban and spatial links that can be found on the ground and in the city, and makes them continue within it. A continuity in the visual promenade is maintained in order to have the least impact on the landscape of the city. The tower is no longer an interruption of urbanity, it becomes its extension.
This quest for openness goes first through the base of the tower and its lower floors, considered as public spaces because they are connected to the neighborhood and the city. The park extends into the tower and invests the heart of the project through the transparent ground floor which is open to the public and constitutes an invitation to discover the activities offered on the lower floors. Ribbon walkways connect the first levels and wrap around the building in an upward movement, breaking the traditional barrier between interior and exterior, between private and collective spaces. Thanks to the porosity of the ground, under the footbridges, the project offers the city a large covered square at the foot of the tower, a public space perfectly adapted to the climate of Taichung. Large atriums are laid out at the foot of the building: connecting 3 to 4 storey levels, they thus create central interaction spaces. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which occasionally widen into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which widen from time to time into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Strengthening its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which occasionally widen into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. constituting as many nodes of local interest, supports of social interactions and conviviality. Strengthening its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. constituting so many nodes of local interest, media for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. shopping malls on the ground floor and on the walkways, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. shopping malls on the ground floor and on the walkways, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres.
Conceived as a symbol of innovation and sustainable architecture, the project has developed around a transversal reflection on the site, the morphology, the spatiality, the materials and the design of the facade, with the aim of obtaining a zero energy building. More than a simple aesthetic gesture, its design expresses a strong conceptual intention: a search for economy of forms and raw materials.
The design of the TIOC aims to promote "being together", to plan and build a common future, to create the conditions favoring the emergence of a collective thought necessary for the research carried out by this digital center. Thanks to the complementarity between artificial and human intelligence, this tower promotes the development of innovations that our civilization badly needs in the current context.
Second largest city on the island of Taiwan, Taichung has launched a vast urban and architectural project. Following the opening of its large “climate park” in the summer of 2018, the city will host the Taichung Intelligence Operation Center (TIOC) in 2021. Proposed by Elizabeth de Portzamparc, this IGH tower will house a digital cultural center, offices, shops and a restaurant.
The first so-called “4th generation” urban tower, it was designed as a sustainable neighborhood and a vector of human interaction, an urban architecture offering another way of practicing and experiencing the space. The main qualities of this type of avant-garde tower lie in its openness, its integration into the context and its relationship to the city. This large interconnected vertical district integrates all the urban and spatial links that can be found on the ground and in the city, and makes them continue within it. A continuity in the visual promenade is maintained in order to have the least impact on the landscape of the city. The tower is no longer an interruption of urbanity, it becomes its extension.
This quest for openness goes first through the base of the tower and its lower floors, considered as public spaces because they are connected to the neighborhood and the city. The park extends into the tower and invests the heart of the project through the transparent ground floor which is open to the public and constitutes an invitation to discover the activities offered on the lower floors. Ribbon walkways connect the first levels and wrap around the building in an upward movement, breaking the traditional barrier between interior and exterior, between private and collective spaces. Thanks to the porosity of the ground, under the footbridges, the project offers the city a large covered square at the foot of the tower, a public space perfectly adapted to the climate of Taichung. Large atriums are laid out at the foot of the building: connecting 3 to 4 storey levels, they thus create central interaction spaces. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which occasionally widen into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which widen from time to time into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Strengthening its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. The horizontal and vertical circulations are treated as meeting places which occasionally widen into squares, squares and terraces, constituting so many nodes of local interest, supports for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. constituting as many nodes of local interest, supports of social interactions and conviviality. Strengthening its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. constituting so many nodes of local interest, media for social interaction and conviviality. Reinforcing its urban dimension, this project offers the city a series of facilities open to the public: a theater and an auditorium opening onto a landscaped patio below the footbridges, shopping malls on the ground floor and on the footbridges, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. shopping malls on the ground floor and on the walkways, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres. shopping malls on the ground floor and on the walkways, and a restaurant at the top of the tower. There is a wide typology of spaces here, obeying a hierarchy of intimacy, a gradation of the link between public and private spheres.
Conceived as a symbol of innovation and sustainable architecture, the project has developed around a transversal reflection on the site, the morphology, the spatiality, the materials and the design of the facade, with the aim of obtaining a zero energy building. More than a simple aesthetic gesture, its design expresses a strong conceptual intention: a search for economy of forms and raw materials.
The design of the TIOC aims to promote "being together", to plan and build a common future, to create the conditions favoring the emergence of a collective thought necessary for the research carried out by this digital center. Thanks to the complementarity between artificial and human intelligence, this tower promotes the development of innovations that our civilization badly needs in the current context.
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