Project Highlights

This project adopts an innovative approach by reallocating the interior construction budget and placing it under the overall direction of the artists. This allows the artworks to be truly integrated into the station’s architecture, shaping a cohesive and immersive spatial experience.

The primary objective of the station’s development is to fully leverage the transportation functions of the High-Speed Rail, Taiwan Railways, and the MRT, creating a seamless three-rail transit hub. By integrating the new Zuoying TRA Station with surrounding transportation and urban infrastructure, the project enhances overall operational efficiency while creating an appealing urban landscape and a distinctive city identity.

Artwork Overview

A total of six artworks are installed throughout different areas of Zuoying Station:

• Stop · Look · Listen

  This work reinterprets level-crossing warning signals from Taiwan Railways through playful and unconventional repetitive combinations. By reshaping spatial perception, the familiar signals are given a new visual presence and renewed meaning.

• Everyone’s Halo

  With harmonious forms and textures that echo the architecture, the halo motif is subtly integrated into a corner of the environment, creating a gentle yet meaningful visual dialogue with the surrounding space.

• Wandering Clouds

  Inspired by the concept of “floating clouds and wandering travelers,” this artwork provides travelers with sculptural seating for rest and pause. Cast bronze and stainless steel are used to reflect surrounding imagery, allowing the metallic surfaces to interact visually with the space and engage in dialogue with the overall environment.

• Returning Hearts

  This piece reflects the constant flow of people within a station—some returning home by train, others departing for distant places. Composed of five rhythmic elements, the work creates a sense of movement and convergence, expressing the essence of a station: the joy of reunion and the bittersweet emotions of farewell.

• Image · Motion · Drift

  Drawing on the concept of speed inherent in a three-rail transit hub, this work translates motion into minimalist black shapes and lines. It incorporates documentary photographs of people from Greater Kaohsiung alongside sandblasted glass images of Zuoying’s historic old city. Through a contemporary lens, different moments and events are compressed into a simultaneous structure, presenting a suddenly frozen instant—a site where form reaches a sense of completeness.

• Arching Heart: Landscapes Between Heaven and Earth

  Beginning with the architectural concept of the keystone, this work employs symbolic architectural language to suggest the station’s role as a key node in Kaohsiung’s development. The “keystone” represents sincerity and reverence, standing between the open skylight above and the stone flooring below. Its streamlined, buoy-like form conveys a strong sense of flow and bodily presence.

These artworks are distributed across various zones within Zuoying Station, collectively enriching the station’s spatial, cultural, and emotional experience.