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Bao’An Performing Arts Centre by Rocco Design Architects

Curated by Festim Toshi
3 years ago
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Exterior photography of contemporary big cultural building; sunset mode angular view.
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© Zhang Chao Studio
Section: Concert Hall Auditorium - RDA
Section: Theatre Auditorium - RDA
Section: Performance Centre - RDA
Baoan Youth Centre - © Wade-Zimmerman
Baoan Library - © Wade-Zimmerman
Masterplan: Aerial Render - RDA
Masterplan: Plan - RDA
Masterplan: Landscape Plan - RDA
Masterplan: Site Plan - RDA
Site Plan - RDA
Diagram: Functions - RDA
Diagram: Functions Zoning - RDA
Diagram: Traffic 1 - RDA
Diagram: Traffic 2 - RDA
Plan: Level 1 Ground - RDA
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Exterior photography of contemporary big cultural building; sunset mode angular view.
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Project Credits:

  • Architects: Rocco Design Architects Associates
  • Local Architect: BIAD
  • Images: Zhang Chao Studio, Wade Zimmerman, Rocco Design Architects Associates
  • E/M: BIAD
  • Façade Consultant: BuroHappold
  • Landscape: SWA
  • Design Team: Rocco Yim, Derrick Tsang, William Tam, Herbert Hung, Martin Fung, Lucia Cheung, Stephen Chan, Simon Ho, Calvin Chung, Ivy Yung, Zachary Wong, Zhu Yi, Seah lee, Jans Liang, Leo Zhou, Chen Lan, Amber Wang, Yang Shi Pei
  • Client: OCT
  • Location: Shenzhen, China
Photograph: Zhang Chao Studio

Rocco Design Architects Associates’ (RDA) Performing Arts Centre, the flagship of the Bao’an Cultural Complex, opened on 17 September 2021 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-square-metre building will host opera, dance, symphonies, and dramatic performances.

Photograph: Zhang Chao Studio

The design takes inspiration from the long and narrow waterfront site. The base of the building is a low-slung, wave-like volume that carries a sense of rhythm and movement along the campus’s axis. A delicately perforated façade hearkens back to ancient Chinese craft like wood and ivory carving and produces dramatic visual effects recalling light shimmering on the bay. 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, the façade concept is rooted in traditional Chinese building screens and shadow walls.

Photograph: Zhang Chao Studio

A fly tower tilted 15 degrees off the vertical creates a point of orientation that announces the centre as the focal point on campus. Sky bridges connect the tower to the main volume, offering commanding 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. 

Photograph: Zhang Chao Studio

Visitors enter through a soaring triple-height lobby. A grand curving staircase and billowing walls finished with wooden slats continue the undulating character of the exteriors. Natural light from above filters in through the perforated façade, creating a lively play of shadow across the space.

Photograph: Zhang Chao Studio

The main performance hall will host high-profile productions of opera, classical music, and ballet. Its delicately sculpted walls accentuate the organic geometries of the space and optimize acoustic conditions by muffling background noise and enhancing sonic clarity. The stage comprises six double-layered lifts that can be raised and lowered within a range of ten meters, opening new production possibilities. The orchestra pool can be raised to the height of the main stage to extend the performance area into the house.

Photograph: Zhang Chao Studio

A 600-seat theatre complements the main performance hall. This space is designed for flexibility to accommodate experimental productions. The stage and seating can be easily rearranged, enabling a catwalk, a four-sided stage, and immersive, and interactive theatre experiences.

Masterplan: Aerial Render – RDA
Masterplan: Plan – RDA
Masterplan: Landscape Plan – RDA
Site Plan – RDA
Plan: Level 1 Ground – RDA
Plan: Level 2 – RDA
Plan: Level 3 – RDA
Plan: Level 4 – RDA
Plan: Level 5 – RDA
Plan: Level 6 – RDA
Plan: Level 7 – RDA
Diagram: Functions – RDA
Diagram: Functions Zoning – RDA
Diagram: Traffic 1 – RDA
Diagram: Traffic 2 – RDA
Masterplan: Site Plan – RDA
Section: Concert Hall Auditorium – RDA
Section: Theatre Auditorium – RDA
Section: Performance Centre – RDA

About the Bao’an Cultural District

The Performing Arts Centre is part of the Bao’an Cultural District, a 110,000-square-meter arts and performance complex in Bao’An, a newly developed coastal area of Shenzhen. The project was master-planned and designed by Rocco Design Architects and includes three major new destinations: the Performing Arts Centre, a Library, and a Youth Palace. The Library was completed in 2013 and the Youth Palace in 2018.

© Zhang Chao Studio
Baoan Library – © Wade-Zimmerman
Baoan Youth Centre – © Wade-Zimmerman

About Rocco Design Architects Associates

Rocco Design Architects Associates is a Chinese architectural practice based in Hong Kong. Working in a region with disparate cultural and physical landscapes, and where values from diverging times and places converge, Rocco Design’s work is grounded in the belief that architecture is the embodiment of culture – embracing and reinterpreting the past, as well as addressing modernity – and the requirements of contemporary living.

RDA’s works have been consistently awarded both locally and overseas, including a First Prize Award for the L’Opéra de la Bastille international competition in 1983, ARCASIA Gold Medals in 1994 and 2003, the Chicago Athenaeum Architectural Awards in 2006, 2011, 2013, and 2016, the Kenneth F. Brown Award in 2007, the World Architecture Festival category winner in 2011, German Design Council Awards in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and two Lu Ban Awards in 2017. The firm has exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale over the last decade, in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2012, and held its first solo exhibition at the Berlin Aedes Gallery in 2015.

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