The Taichung Green Museumbrary, located in Taichung Central Park, Taiwan, was designed by SANAA following an international competition initiated in 2013. Conceived as a hybrid cultural facility that brings together a public library and an art museum within a single integrated building, the project is a major civic landmark that reflects the city’s vision of combining culture, education, and public life in an open and accessible environment.

The architecture organizes reading, learning, and exhibition within a continuous, interconnected spatial system defined by fluid circulation and open volumes. While the building appears as a collection of separate volumes from the outside, these masses are intricately connected within, forming a spatial sequence that has been described as maze-like. These interwoven volumes are unified by a continuous envelope that wraps across the different building forms, establishing a coherent architectural expression.

Building on experiences from the New Art Museum project in New York, the expanded metal material needed solutions for gently warped geometries over several buildings of concrete and glass. A light rhythm of steel framing was adapted with discreet connectors to hold the light weight expanded metal screen shades and veils the building volumes while performing against severe winds of a subtropical site. The expanded metal is silver natural anodized with light grey painted steel framing. High transparency color neural glazing is achieved with solar protection that the metal screen provides.