TED Building – BIG

The Public Street

TED contains an almost urban mix of programs with no obvious hierarchy. We propose to organize the shops and showrooms, offices and hotelrooms, conference rooms and exhibitions spaces, restaurants and galleries along an internal extension of the pedestrianized street to the south. To remain with the site and the maximum building volume, the public street is coiled up in an ascending spiral leading from the ground floor to the roof garden.

The spiraling street of media programs is consolidated into a 57×57x57m3 cube of program permeated by a public trajectory of the people life. The cube is finished in concrete lamellas serving as solar shading as well as public access.

The lamellas recede inwards forming a generous public staricase allowing the public walk into the fecade and all the way to the roof. At the roof of the cube, the trajectory expands forming a big informal public arena. All restaurants on the penthouse floor open to the arena making it a natural gathering point for Taipei teenagers for social hangout and informal performances.

Project: TED Building

Architect: BIG

           Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange

Project leader: Cat Huang

Team: Gaetan Brunet, Xu Li, Alysen Hiller, Xi Chen, Espen Vik, James Schrader, Kuba Snopek, Riccardo Mariano, Johan Cool, Takuya Hosokai, Daniel Sundlin.          

Collaborators: Realities United, Arup

Location: Taiwan

Type: Competition

Client: TLDC

Size: 43,000 sq. mt.