Taichung City Government

Taiwan’s first cultural complex that integrates a municipal art museum and a municipal library, the Taichung Green Museumbrary, has officially opened. To mark the special significance of its opening, the Taichung Museum of Art and the Taichung Public Library invited Taiwanese designer Shuei-Yuan Yang to create the limited-edition opening product “birdi,” using the expanded metal mesh on the building facade as the material and the Green Museumbrary’s spatial concept as the core, transforming architectural vocabulary into a lightweight balancing ornament. The Taichung Museum of Art noted that the designer has turned the Green Museumbrary’s distinctive architectural and artistic energy into a tabletop landscape for everyday life. Starting today, it is available exclusively at the Pon Ding × Taichung Green Museumbrary shop.
The Taichung Green Museumbrary is located in Taichung Central Park and is an emerging cultural venue that brings together knowledge, art, and parkland. Designed by the internationally renowned architectural firm SANAA, it takes “Cultural Forest” as its core concept. Through eight interconnected yet individually distinct volumes, it creates a space that feels open, transparent, and fluid. To echo this architectural design philosophy of “transparency” and “flow,” the building facade is extensively clad in expanded metal mesh. This not only reflects the surrounding park landscape, but also allows natural breezes and light to enter the interior, further dissolving the boundary between the building and its environment. From a distance, it appears as if the building is draped in a sheer veil, making it seem to float lightly above the greenery.
To commemorate the Taichung Green Museumbrary’s important milestone marking its 15 year journey from planning to opening, the Taichung Art Museum and the Taichung Public Library specially partnered with industrial designer Shuei-Yuan Yang, who has received multiple design awards and been invited to present works in exhibitions in Taiwan and abroad, to launch the limited-edition opening commemorative item “birdi”. Drawing on expanded metal mesh as an architectural material, the design continues the building’s vocabulary of lightness, transparency, and flow, transforming it into a balancing ornament. Shaped like a bird perched in perfect balance, it features softly extended lines. While allowing light to pass through, the metal retains traces of fabrication, creating delicate, dynamic variations of light and shadow from different angles, symbolizing the venue’s spirit of integrating art and knowledge.
The Taichung Museum of Art added that the production was made possible with the support of SHANG KAI STEEL CO., LTD., which provided aluminum expanded metal mesh in the same form as that used on the Taichung Green Museumbrary facade. With the assistance of the local integrated metal fabrication team TAIWA PRECISE TECHNIQUE CO., LTD., a recipient of the TCOD Taichung Original Design distinction, the team worked with the designer through multiple rounds of processing tests and prototypes, fine tuning structural balance and metal surface details to ensure the commemorative piece achieves both safety and aesthetic appeal, resulting in this one of a kind work. In addition, “birdi” comes in limited edition opening packaging and is available exclusively starting today at the Pon Ding Taichung Green Museumbrary shop, inviting the public to bring the Green Museumbrary’s architectural spirit and cultural memories into everyday life.