After the City of Taichung was awarded the title of ‘World’s Best Cultural and Arts City’ by the World Leadership forum in 2007, the city embarked on an agenda to revitalize the existing three (3) kilometer long pedestrian greenbelt and six and a half (6.5) hectares area. in an effort to rejuvenate the city and attract tourist and locals. 
 

They  engaged us to regenerate the badly maintained greenbelt into a city wide park that incorporates innovation, sustainability, recreation and leisure entertainment and to transform the greenbelt back into a key part of the urban framework in an effort to promote the Taichung city’s vibrant cultural lifestyle and demonstrate its commitment to social and environmental sustainability.

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The design is inspired by the art of calligraphy and the play of a brush dancing on a bamboo scroll. The programming of the greenbelt spaces was carefully positioned adjacent to existing and new urban uses to reconnect the multi layered aspects of Taichung to the urban fabric. The greenbelt has become a major public amenity linking people, place, art and culture. By reconnecting public realm to maximize the relationships of adjacent cultural institutions, residential development and commercial activities as well as successfully reorganizing future urban development.With the greenbelt dramatically increasing the areas desirability, retail activity and capital improvements to older hotel and retail properties have transformed and revitalized the urban environment surrounding Calligraphy Greenbelt.