Open Core
Faced with today’s massive growth of the city, how to create a livable city fabric?
In this respect the typology of the skyscraper offers valuable alternatives to sprawl.
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Location
Taichung, TaiwanYear
2010Program
225.000m2 of museum, library, hotel, spa, restaurant, offices, apartments -
Competition
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Design lead
Eric Frijters
Olv KlijnTeam members
Marie Rannou
Greta Mozzachiodi
Pieter van Roermund
Raúl Benitez Molina
“If we cleverly reorganize life skyward in the Taichung Gateway Park it is possible to produce a building that is at once a landmark for Taiwan’s economic miracle [..] and a sign for emerging new open democracy.”
— Eric Frijters
Most skyscrapers are just an endless repetiton of floors without added significance either inside or out. But if we cleverly reorganize life skyward in the Taichung Gateway Park it is possible to produce a building that is at once a landmark for Taiwan’s economic miracle, an icon for five thousand years of civilization, a gatekeeper of new green city space, a showcase for innovative skyscraper design and a sign for emerging new open democracy. In doing so we are finally in position to explore the true potential of the skyscraper in an ever densifying urban fabric.
The result is Open Core, a design for a skyscraper and a vast urban park that combines the exterior qualities of the omni attractive circular tower with unexpected inner beauty of green circular platforms.