There is an appeal to the chaotic co-existence found beneath the arcade. Street vendors in front of retail stores attracting passersby with food aromas, restaurants with kitchens protruding into the arcade, woodshop machinery buzzing as pedestrians walk through, and fish processing shops taking over public space at twilight all make the arcade full of energy. It is this vibrance and vigor from this common backdrop we wish to capture and reinterpret.

Our arcade on the ground level is open to the public as a shortcut connecting the front alley to the elliptical plaza in the back. Below the arcade’s concrete slab, there are a museum, a coffee shop, a concrete staircase entrance for the exhibition space, and the spiral metal staircase leading to the roof deck. The openness of the arcade museum is derived from arcades of Taipei. The permutation of concrete columns allows for separate entrances to each destination, and the overlapping public spaces provides opportunities for guests to mingle.

騎樓下混亂的共生現象始終有吸引人的一面，在便利商店前透過味道吸引過客的攤販、餐廳與廚房分離進駐騎樓下的公共空間、行走於都市穿廊時經過木工圓盤具的巨響、於半夜才出來佔據公共空間的魚市加工廠，這些景色早已成為我們日常生活中的一部分。我們希望從這些場景中重新詮釋其能量與生命力。

歡迎大眾穿梭於地面層的騎樓空間，這個都市捷徑串連了房子的前巷與後方的橢圓形廣場。騎樓板下的空間有美術館、咖啡屋、通往展覽空間的水泥梯入口以及可直達屋頂平台的螺旋鋼梯。騎樓美術館的公共性是由都市騎樓的空間衍化而來的，水泥柱變向的排列組合允許各空間的獨立出入口，而共享的公共空間提供賓客交流互動的機緣。