Open Architecture unveils Pingshan Performing Arts Center
Beijing studio Open Architecture has created the Pingshan Performing Arts Center near Shenzhen as a "counter-statement" to other more extravagant theatres that have recently been built in China.
The architecture studio designed the performing arts centre in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen with a simple form to demonstrate an alternative to the landmark structures that are being built across the country.
"We entered the design competition at the time that so many extravagant, grand theatres were being built in China and elsewhere, spending millions and millions of taxpayer money seemingly without blinking an eye," said Open Architecture co-founder Li Hu.
"We wanted to make a counter-statement," he told Dezeen.
Rather than creating an elaborate exterior form, Open Architecture focused on adding drama to the interior spaces by creating unexpected routes through the building.
"The form of the floating-box itself is an anti-thesis to the world of theatre design taking dramatic forms for granted," said Li.
"Instead, we packed the 'drama' inside. Unexpected programs and spaces, twists and turns, in and out, to wrap around and above the grand theater space at the core, which activates the urban facade day and night," he continued
"We took the inspiration from the concept of the 'Chinese box' ? a cubical wooden treasure block made of complicated interlocking pieces ? sophistication inside the simplicity."
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