Central Park / Philippe Rahm architects + Mosbach landscape architects + Ricky Liu & Associates

A master plan based on climate factors. The Central Park is a new 67-hectare public park built on the abandoned site of a former airport northwest of the center of Taichung, a city of 3 million people in central Taiwan. The park is at the heart of a new 256-hectare real estate development. It is a core of nature, planted with nearly 12,000 trees. Due to its topography, its valleys acting as retention basins, it also acts as a sponge for all the rainwater in the new district, preventing flooding and overloading the network. Taichung has a hot, humid, and polluted tropical climate. The ambition of the park is to offer cooler, drier, and less polluted places.