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PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, SHENZHEN, CHINA ROCCO DESIGN ARCHITECTS


Rocco Design Architects Associates’s Performing Arts Centre – the “flagship” of the Bao’an Cultural Complex in Shenzhen, China. Overlooking Quanhai Bay and the South China Sea, the building anchors the southern end of the cultural complex. It houses Shenzhen’s first performance hall to be scaled and equipped for international operas, as well as a 600-seat venue and rehearsal facilities. The 28,000 m2 building will host opera, dance, symphonies, and dramatic performances. The design takes inspiration from the long and narrow waterfront site; the base is “a low-slung, wave-like volume that carries a sense of rhythm and movement along the campus’s axis,” said the architects. A delicately perforated facade recalls ancient Chinese wood and ivory carving and produces “dramatic visual effects.” The ‘scrim-like’ envelope “modulates transparency according to the spaces it encloses, creating openings at the public lobbies and gathering areas and becoming more opaque at the theatres and rehearsal spaces.” While “formally and technically innovative,” said RDA, the facade concept is “rooted in traditional Chinese building screens and shadow walls.” A fly tower tilted 15-degrees off the vertical aids orientation, and sky-bridges offer views over the bay. Gathering areas and elevated porticos line the base of the building, and a restaurant sits at the end of a sloping volume that extends into the plaza, “weaving the building into the larger campus.” The triple-height lobby has a grand curving staircase, and walls finished with wooden slats continue the character of the exteriors. Natural light from above filters in through the perforated facade, “creating a lively play of shadow across the space.”


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