Rainbow Village, Street art settlement in Nantun District, Taichung, Taiwan.
Rainbow Village is a painted settlement in Nantun District of Taichung, Taiwan, made up of eleven preserved houses whose outer walls are completely covered with colored patterns, figures, and characters. The buildings stand close together along narrow lanes, and each wall shows different motifs in bright red, yellow, blue, and green.
The houses served as housing for military veterans from the 1940s onward and were scheduled for demolition starting in 2008. A former soldier began painting the walls at that time to draw attention to the value of the settlement, which eventually led to the preservation of the neighborhood.
The wall paintings grew from a single resident's wish to save his home, mixing traditional luck symbols with everyday scenes from memory. Visitors walk between the colorful houses today, stopping to look at the hand-painted figures and characters that cover every surface.
Buses run from Taichung main station toward Nantun District and stop near the settlement. The lanes are walkable during the day, and the small site can be explored in about thirty minutes.
Huang Yung-Fu used only simple brushes and paint pots, without stencils or help from other artists. He kept working on the walls until shortly before his death in January 2024 at the age of one hundred.
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