The Danjiang Bridge began as a dialogue between people and their environment — a response to the Tamsui estuary and to decades of hope in Tamsui and Bali for a way across the river, finally realized through engineering.

The exhibition opens with a curved projection. Beginning with flowing rivers and growing cities, the animation follows people's longing to connect and shows how engineering responds to wind, water, and land, gradually bringing a bridge into being.

The Tamsui sunset is a shared memory shaped by the river estuary, the setting sun, and the horizon. The bridge settles quietly into this sensitive landscape, guiding the eye rather than blocking it. As the sun goes down, its silhouette weaves into the hills and the water, extending the city's most cherished sensory experience through the light of dusk.

This area pairs lenticular prints and infographics with ZHA's competition film and construction footage to explain the single-tower asymmetric cable-stayed form. Weighing the sunset views, the terrain, and environmental limits, this shape is the best balance struck between nature, landscape, and engineering.

Designed for a 120-year lifespan, the Danjiang Bridge underwent wind tunnel testing and seismic simulations before construction. Seismic isolation bearings, dampers, and custom high-durability concrete work together to withstand wind, earthquakes, and estuarine erosion.

Here, works by YHLAA Photography, shot during construction, capture the site's curves, light, and scale. A transparent OLED installation lets visitors adjust wind, earthquakes, and erosion to feel their effect on the bridge, while infographics lay out the early environmental surveys and the engineering answers to them — making this century-long test clear and tangible.

The Danjiang Bridge is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between design and engineering. From the tapering curves of the main tower to the rhythmic movement of the lighting columns, each element reflects a continuous dialogue between structure, materials, and construction feasibility — leaving Taiwan's large-scale engineering a path worth following.

This area presents ZHA Architect's 3D-printed tower models, tracing the design from concept to completion. In the "Bridge Before the Bridge" interactive, visitors sketch the tower and choose the deck width and number of piers to design their own Danjiang Bridge. An animation turns construction drawings into motion, showing how the 126 lighting columns — each at a different angle and curvature — form a flowing rhythm as you drive past, alongside infographics on the tower's segmental construction and the columns' installation.

The bridge is a living thing — sensing the wind, the river, and the footsteps of everyone heading home. Once its two ends are joined, it reopens what daily life can be: closer ties between Tamsui and Bali for work, school, shopping, and leisure. Spanning the estuary and spanning eras, it gives Taiwan a new landmark.

Through immersive projection, this area unfolds the region around the bridge, explored by theme: the care taken for local ecology, the protection of historic sites, the network the bridge forms with local traffic, the monitoring of water quality, noise, and vibration, and the will of the many who made it possible. The bridge connects a whole landscape where nature, history, and daily life are woven together.

"I'm trying to discover – invent, I suppose – an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples."
— Zaha Hadid

The Danjiang Bridge carries the hopes of generations. From planning to completion, it brings together the dedication and expertise of countless individuals. At the moment it opens to traffic, it will become intertwined with this land, this city, and the lives of the people who inhabit it.