The public art "Operation City" of Fengyuan Transit Center transforms the landscape features of nine administrative districts into city slices, highlighting the inseparable relationship between the operation center and urban development.

(Provided by Taichung City Government)

[Reporter Lin Minzhen/Taichung Report] The Taichung City Fengyuan Transit Center was completed and opened in September last year. Artists Lin Jianyou, Lin Weiyou, Yang Zhenyuan, and Liao Peiyi created public art under the name of "Running City". Many returnees praised "Fengyuan is gilded, It feels like a metropolis,” said Liao Peiyi, a native of Fengyuan. This is a gift from her and her team to her hometown. She hopes that more people will see Fengyuan and find the feeling of the city where they live while moving.

Lin Jianyou, who is good at plastic arts, settled in Fengyuan with his wife Liao Peiyi, who is familiar with museum design and planning, and started a down-to-earth mountain city art journey. Combining with his brother Lin Weiyou's expertise in space design, he joined hands with metal modeling artist Yang Zhenyuan to create public art for Fengyuan Transit Center "Running the City".

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"Use map imagery to show the heritage and diversity of Fengyuan city," Lin Jianyou said. The appearance of this public art looks like a disc, and its connotation is integrated into the characteristics of the neighboring administrative districts such as Dongshi, Xinshe, and Shigang. The overlap and alienation are interesting. Where there is a story, there is emotion. Passengers look up and appreciate that the disc can rotate in turn, just like the passenger trains at the station come and go.

Lin Jianyou pointed out that "Running City" transforms the landscape characteristics of nine administrative districts into city slices, respectively "Fengyuan, Shigang, Houli", "Fengyuan, Shengang, Daya, Tanzi", "Fengyuan, Xinshe, Dongshi, Heping "is 3 components, 3 main regional branches, and each color has a corresponding relationship. When you look up, you will find that it is a miniature of a map, highlighting the inseparable relationship between the operation center and urban development.

The art team Amusi Design talked about the creation, using the three concepts of "city stacking, tree crown habitat", "external movement, internal construction", and "city slicing, overlapping operation", and compared the city to the tree canopy layer , integrate the urban visual experience of people's activities into the upward-growing urban scenes, and focus on breaking the sense of distance. The work combines rest seats to provide people with a slow stop.

Ye Zhaofu, director of the Transportation Bureau, said that the Transportation Bureau is committed to promoting public art, hoping to combine local characteristics, stories, and even public transportation buildings and facilities, so that public art can pass through local people and things, or passengers passing through transportation nodes have more room for imagination .

The Fengyuan Transit Center serves as the gateway to the Taichung Mountain Line area. The public art shares prosperity with the transit center and the train station. When passengers wait for the train at the Fengyuan Transit Center, they can feel the special significance of the connection between the mountain and the city through the mirror reflection of the public art.

Artists Lin Jianyou, Liao Peiyi and team members created a public art "Running City" as a gift to their hometown.

(Provided by Taichung City Government)