Port and Cruise Service Center of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

RTA-Offices proposal is aimed at “understanding the place” and, as a result of this understanding, providing an answer to the lack of topography in the area of the city of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, where the P&CSC is to be built. This concept is not meant to be absorbed within the established magma of the city, but to emerge as a geographical element; therefore, it detaches itself from architecture to find its genealogy in the natural order to establish the idea of a landscape.

The technical spaces, service spaces and parking are located below the smooth topography. The parking is divided into 3 vented floors above level 0.00. Vehicles enter from the street and access different levels through interior ramps.
Level 0.00: Cruise Terminal (CT) parking and a surrounding road which leads vehicles from the street to the vessels and vice versa, without getting involved in the parking operation.
Level + 3.20: CT parking and Port Service Center (PSC) VIP.
Level + 6.20: PSC parking.
Level -5.00: parking, loading and unloading of buses. The parking for buses is placed underground, in the form of an appendix, in order to free the street (0.00) and the Cruise terminal access road (level +10.00) from a higher impact loading and unloading of passengers. This underground level is only accessed from the street and is connected to the rest of the building through the four circulation cores.

Architect: Santiago Parramon

Port and Cruise Service Center of Kaohsiung, Taiwan by Santiago Parramon in Taiwan won the WA Award Cycle 9. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.