Dawn Pavilion & Triumph Hall

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Collaborated With
Steven Holl
Location
New Taipei, Taiwan
Client
Project Type
Other
Construction Management
Project Facts
Year
2010-
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On a magnificent ocean view site 40 minutes from Taipei, the Necropolis of ChinPaoSan requires a new arrival hall to serve the complex (with 10,000 existing burial sites) and a new pavilion for 150,000 additional ashbox sites. The arrival building will contain a 21 room hotel, a restaurant, a ceremonial chapel, an auditorium, and two small museums.

After exploring more than 30 schemes in a search for sacred space for the site, watercolor drawings of intersecting circles with their inherent universal properties and suggestive circulation typologies gradually became intersecting spheres. Model studies which yielded amazing overlapping perspectives created an astonishing spatial energy.

The geometry of intersected spheres refers back to a rich ancient history of symbolism. In the I Ching, the earth is represented as a square and the heavens as a circle.

The intersecting spheres are embedded in a rectangular plan topped by a sheet of water, pulling the ocean horizon into the composition.

Natural light is brought into the building section via openings in the intersecting spheres. Urn shelving, which occupies most of the building's section, is arranged in different typologies: radial, circular, and orthogonal.

Construction of the Oceanic Pavilion is in white concrete. Hinoki wood is used for doors and partitions. The arrival building, with its 21 room hotel and restaurant takes the shape of the allotted plot extruded into four levels with spherical subtractions.

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