SAA received the mandate to transform Taichung’s decommissioned Municipal Airport into the city’s new cultural district. The current site is a virtual Tabula Rasa measuring 250 hectares and located at one of the city’s main growth corridors. What to do with such an immense opportunity for urbanism? Our proposal creates a single unifying element that incorporates as many program elements as possible: circulation, green space and natural ecologies, new cultural institutions research facilities, as well as major public attractors such as the convention hall and the new dome. The new parkway infrastructure defines a zone of intense design investment while strategically opening up edges of the site to existing urban development pressures.