A 2,000-seat performance venue on the shore of Lake Taihu. The project takes the bamboo forests of Yixing as the origin for its structure, canopy, envelope and light.
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Reference
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The programme required a theatre. The place required the bamboo forest.
The brief called for a venue capable of housing a permanent water show, and for a building that belonged to Wuxi. The bamboo forests of nearby Yixing provided the architectural reference: vertical density, layered canopy and filtered light. These qualities became structural and environmental principles, not surface decoration.
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System
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Column, canopy and envelope work as one system.
A perimeter field of slender white columns acts as structure, screen and reference at the same time. Above, a canopy of triangulated gold aluminium louvres forms an irregular forest canopy. Each louvre is set at a different angle, helping brace the column tops, transfer load and reduce cooling demand. The glazed envelope carries the same vertical rhythm through white and gold fritting.
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Resolution
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The forest becomes architecture.
At ground level, columns clear around the entrances like paths through bamboo. The full-height lobby glazing opens the interior to the landscape. At night, the building glows behind the column field, drawing audiences from across the lake. The bamboo reference remains active through structure, canopy, envelope and light.
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