11 April 2022
MULTI-PURPOSE SQUARE IN TAINAN, TAIWAN
The dismantling of a Shopping Mall as a Chance of Creating a New Public Space
Tainan Spring project recycles an old shopping mall built in 1983; this construction fell into disuse as online shopping expanded. As a result, city government decided to reconvert the site. The strategy adopted is an attempt to recover, through a reinterpretation, the underlying resource that characterised the site: the presence of water. In fact, from the seventeenth century, the Tainan water network was an important part of the development of maritime industry and fishing. The project is configured as a new landscape suspended between the memory of the past and the desire to offer a new ...
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