Iron Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design · 2025
The Glory Of Jun Hun 1975 Cultural Preservation and Restoration
- A' Design Award 2025 Iron Winner in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Taiwan Power Company
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 18,903
- Verification code 4F5C374E86 · Verify this award
About The Glory Of Jun Hun 1975 Cultural Preservation and Restoration
The Glory of Jun Hun 1975 is an immersive cultural heritage exhibition set in the former Jun-Hun Power Plant on Bei-Gan, Matsu. The plant was completed in 1975 and remained closed for decades. The 237 square meter site spans two floors and is entered through a 30 meter tunnel carved into the mountain. Vintage explosion-proof wall lamps light the tunnel walls, and recorded generator sounds recreate the noise of the power generation era. Lighting, sound and dance performances guide visitors back to the Cold War period. The design preserves the fragile structure without damage.
Cultural heritage preservation through environmental transformation takes material form in The Glory Of Jun Hun 1975 Cultural Preservation and Restoration by Taiwan Power Company, a project that reimagines industrial architectural space through immersive chromatic intervention and theatrical illumination strategy. The work demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how color saturation and progressive lighting can activate historical industrial environments, transforming utilitarian infrastructure into experiential spatial narrative that honors operational heritage while inviting contemporary contemplation. The compositional achievement rests substantially in the masterful deployment of one-point perspective, the mathematical precision with which structural elements, mechanical forms, and architectural details converge toward the central luminous aperture creates powerful visual momentum that draws viewers through the space both optically and metaphorically, suggesting passage, journey, and transformation. The chromatic orchestration reveals particular accomplishment in its thermal gradient execution, the progression from deep crimson overhead through vermillion and scarlet mid-tones toward concentrated aureolin and amber brilliance along the horizontal corridor constructs both spatial depth and symbolic intensification, warm saturated hues typically associate with energy, vitality, heritage, and cultural warmth across numerous traditions. The bilateral symmetry establishes ceremonial formality while the human silhouettes positioned along the central axis provide essential scale calibration, their dark contours against radiant background emphasizing the monumental quality of the preserved industrial architecture while grounding the experience in human presence and contemplative engagement. The Yellow machinery flanking the corridor appears to reference operational heritage, these substantial mechanical forms bearing the patina of decades of service, their preservation and presentation within the chromatic environment honoring technological history and industrial labor traditions. The textural complexity visible in weathered surfaces, oxidized metal panels, and worn flooring speaks to authenticity and temporal depth, the accumulated material evidence of sustained use and the passage of years becoming visual testimony to cultural continuity and technological evolution. The lighting strategy achieves remarkable atmospheric density, concealed sources washing ceiling surfaces and lateral zones create enveloping chromatic immersion that transcends mere illumination to become spatial experience itself, the environment reading as both documentation of industrial heritage and transformative artistic intervention. The project invites viewers to consider how preservation can extend beyond static conservation to embrace experiential reactivation, how industrial spaces that powered cultural development might themselves become vessels for cultural memory and aesthetic contemplation, and how light and color can serve as interpretive media rendering visible the hidden beauty within functional architecture, prompting reflection on the relationship between utility and transcendence, between operational history and contemporary meaning-making within spaces of cultural significance.
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- Unique Properties
- The project utilizes lighting designs by YI.ng Lighting Design Consultants and sound compositions by musician Yu-Jun Wang , alongside on-site creative performances by three groups of dancers to guide the audience through the boundaries of time back to 1975. Through the interpretation of light and sound, the audience's senses are fully immersed in the flow of time, as if stepping into the Cold War period across the strait, experiencing the challenges of wartime power supply.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The power plant renovation area dimension is 237 square meter(2 floors), main frame structure is tunnel. The walls of the tunnel are adorned with 2700K vintage German explosion-proof wall lamps.
Moreover, sound artist integrates the thunderous sounds recorded from the operation of generators at the Nan-Gan Power Plant. This creates the illusion of the Jun-Hun Power Plant reverting to the deafening noise of its power generation era. Additionally, three generators manufactured by MAN GmbH in Germany are being reactivated after retirement. - Tags
- Taiwan, Secretive power plant, Bei-Gan, Matsu Biennial, Taiwan Power Company, Jun-Hun, Cold War era
- Production Technology
- In addition to integrating lighting design and musical composition, this project features on-site performances by three groups of dancers with the theme of time travelers, leading the audience to transcend the boundaries of time. Through the combination of environmental elements, lighting, and sound, we aim to create an immersive experience that stimulates all five senses, allowing each piece of work to resonate with the historical significance of the power plant.
- Design Challenge
- Due to the location being an abandoned power plant from the Cold War era, it has long been in a state of disrepair and is a derelict site now. Besides refurbishing it to provide suitable space for artists to perform, there are safety issues due to the deteriorated steel frame supporting the mountain walls. Therefore, the most challenging thing at the time was to preserve the existing conditions and allow art performance in a non-destructive manner.
- Project Duration
- The project is a continuity plans, it had implemented across the entire Matsu Islands from 2021 to 2023.
- Operation Flow
- Upon entering the control room of the power plant, one must first pass through a 30 meter long tunnel carved into the mountain. The YI.ng Lighting Design Consultants hope to lead the audience back to the past and evoke a sense of the repression during wartime through lighting design.
Besides, the sound artist Yu-Jun Wang integrates the thunderous sounds recorded from the operation of generators at the Nan-Gan Power Plant. This gesture also pays homage to the predecessors who pioneered the establishment of the power plant by carving through the mountains. - Research
- To authentically blend into local characteristics and historical elements, our design team had to go to Matsu to do their fieldwork. We gathered historical background, architectural features, environmental sounds, and voices, then transformed these concepts into local expressions through lighting art, sound art, and dance art. The follow-up results of the project were also impressive, It attracted approximately 27,000 indoor visitors, created 613 reports from domestic and international media and reached an estimated audience of around 1,280,538 people.
- Inspiration
- The project takes the historical space of the Bei Gan Power Plant (also known as the Jun-Hun Power Plant) as its venue, with "The glory of Jun-Hun 1975" as its theme. This allows the "Jun-Hun Power Plant, completed and commissioned in 1975," to be presented to the public for the first time during the second Matsu International Art Island, following the lifting of martial law in Matsu in 30 years, through the collaborative efforts of interdisciplinary art teams. By doing so, we aim to evoke an appreciation for the challenges of wartime power supply as well as the value and preciousness of peace.
- Image Credits
- Image #1~#5:Photographer Flaneurs, 2023.
Vedio:Landfilms,Taiwan Power Company, 2024.
PDF produce: Taiwan Power Company, 2023. - Patents
- All IP, patented, trademark and copyrights are to Taiwan Power Company.
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