The goal of ISA and NEAR Design for the Kaohsiung Port Station, serving the largest harbor in Taiwan, is to revitalize the Port station area into a Transitional Park (Trans-Park) where daily life and events, past and future, landscape and city, land and water coexists. With the city’s cultural production and tourism in mind, the site will become an icon of Kaohsiung. More images and architects’ description after the break.
One of the main goals of this project was to emphasize the unique railway landscape. The contrast between the solid geometric urban blocks and the wide open void emphasizes the linear and expanding condition of the railways. The placing of the organic blocks patches the Shou mountain and the water.
