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Outdoor Water Theatre – Taiyuan Park
Taiyuan, China
Timeframe 2018 – 2020
Type Outdoor Theatre – 3500 seats
Start of construction 2019
COMPLETION 2020
OPENING CEREMONY AUGUST 2020
Architect + Engineer Sterling Presser
Local Architect SOL
Client Qianyuan Kultur Kommunikation Ltd
Stage Concept, Scheme Design, Construction information
Status COMPLETED
Competition 1st PriZe
Outdoor Water Theatre – Taiyuan Park
Taiyuan, China
The outdoor theatre is a large-scale permanent installation to gather up to 3500 visitors. It is designed as sequential movement that connects & emerges from the landscape. The whole composition is a lotus sequence. The entrance curved bridge announces the lotus geometry at the arrival. The dam connects the theatre from the South. The whole geometry is flowing along the landscape and the river. It aims at being a point of focus. The Theatre brings public together. Thousands of eyes are unified to participate to a performance and be inspired by the work of art. The indirect path to arrive to the theatre gives the chance to discover the water feature step by step. The project development is built up in a short time. The theatre within the landscape aims at leaving a cultural heritage and a landmark along the river for a longer timeframe.
The project is to be seen with higher aim to achieve a global composition. The footbridges access, the landscape meridians will connect together with the outer and inner theatre as a single network. The project creates a continuous flow and a unique centralised composition. It is like a ribbon weaving up and down along the elliptic profile and creating space for programme underneath and slope for seating area. The entrance is formed through intermediate low points between the leaves as an articulated point. The continuous ribbon anticipates and envision the inner theatre along the river. The landscape includes that branch. The geometry is generated in order to be in axis and centralised on the theatre project.
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Sterling Presser
Architects Engineers PartGmbB
BERLIN, Germany