架构师提供的文本描述。蝉是现代台北机械结构中的一个有机空洞，是工业昆虫后工业变态的茧。该建筑是基于当地的知识，人的规模，灵活的竹结构，包含了高度的即兴和昆虫思维开放的形式。

Text description provided by the architects. Cicada is an organic void in the mechanical texture of modern Taipei, a cocoon for post-industrial metamorphosis for industrial insects. The architecture is based on the Local Knowledge of human scale flexible bamboo structures containing a high level of improvisation and insect mind - Open Form.

蝉座落在台北中部一处等待发展的地方。这意味着，虽然它作为一个公共领域周围的邻里，并作为休息室的大学讲习班和其他自发活动-公共空间。

Cicada is situated on a site in central Taipei waiting for development. Mean while it acts as a public sphere for the surrounding neighbourhood and as lounge for university workshops and other spontaneous activities - public space.

当一个人进入知了，周围的城市消失了。茧是一个内部空间，但完全在外面-它是呼吸，振动，柔软和安全。这个空间将吞没现代人，让他有可能在一千年前旅行，以认识到事物是一样的。蝉是昆虫建筑，空间是公共领域。

As one enters the Cicada, the surrounding city disappears. The cocoon is an interior space but totally outside - it is breathing, vibrating, soft and safe. The space will swallow the modern man and will offer him a possibility to travel a thousand years back in order to realize, that the things are the same. Cicada is insect architecture and the space is a public sphere.

蝉是台北的城市针刺，透过工业懒惰的坚硬表面，到达原地，接触集体志，这是将台北市人与自然联系在一起的地方知识。蝉茧是现代人与现实之间的偶然中介。没有其他的现实，那就是大自然。

Cicada is urban acupuncture for Taipei city penetrating the hard surfaces of industrial laziness in order to reach the original ground and get in touch with the collective Chi, the local knowledge that binds the people of Taipei basin with nature. The cocoon of Cicada is an accidental mediator between the modern man and reality. There is no other reality that nature.