Translating and Regenerating the Military Heritage in Matsu

2022.8.26-9.17
NCKU Gallery
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9:30-17:00
Location: 1st floor, Student Activities Center, Kuang-Fu Campus

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) invested in the "Translating and Regenerating the Military Heritage in Matsu" project from 2020. A key strategy of this project is the interpretation and regeneration of military cultural heritage, with NCKU acting as the coordinator and strategic planner. The university is integrating the architectural design teams involved at various stages, assisting them to redesign military strongholds that are steadily falling into disuse or oblivion. The goal is to gradually integrate them into the contemporary life of Matsu, transforming the military strongholds into showcasing platforms for international connections, and tapping into their potential for future sustainable development.
Currently, 17 groups of decommissioned barracks and naval defense strongholds have been selected as bases for translation in the regeneration project, including Nangan, Beigan, Dongju, and Xiju. Renowned, award-winning architectural teams and teachers and students of the universities will provide professional insights from diverse strategies and perspectives, extracting and refining possible design ideas from the context of the past to the spatial story of the future, endowing the military heritage with new, contemporary meaning.
"Translating and Regenerating the Military Heritage in Matsu" project invited 16 architectural teams to join the exhibition, and shared the design proposals of various military bases, located in Matsu Nangan, Beigan, Dongju and Xiju islands. With their own experience and imagination of Matsu, each architectural design team proposed various intervention and transformation strategies, the concepts proposed according to different bases were unique.