Nanhua Glimmer

Nanhua Glimmer - A New Geometric Landscape Under Taimu Mountain

The site for Nanhua Glimmer locates in the countryside of Pingtung, Taiwan.

Sitting at the foot of Taimu Mountain, the site previously served as an elementary school. The now decommissioned school campus has transformed into the Pingtung AI Agriculture Hub with a new landscape park for the community and the elderly. The landscape park creates a more inviting atmosphere for the locals by opening up the campus boundary and linking the new greenery with the surrounding.

The reborn campus celebrates the regional nature features and translates them into geometric forms in the landscape design. The continuous curvature of the concrete retaining walls echoes with the patterns of the pineapple fields and the folds of the mountain ridges. The selected variety of plants within the campus presents an ecological education opportunity for the public, including the edible plants on the green hills and the restoration of aquatic plants in the eco pond.

The elements of fog and glimmer resemble the collective memory of the locals – at nights, the mountain fog flows along the ridges, creating radiances around the street lights afar. The natural mountain fog runs through the mahogany forest and pineapple fields. The recreated misty scene brings up the visual memories of gazing afar towards the mountain covered in fog and clouds.