Stufish Entertainment Architects have recently completed The Han Show Theatre in Wuhan, China.
더 한쇼 시어터 프로젝트는 중국을 베이스로 하는 디벨롭퍼 group Dalian Wanda의 새로운 도시개발 사업 내 앵커포인트로 제안된다. 새로운 컬쳐밴드; 6개의 호수를 연결한 새로운 물길, 운하는 각 도시구역; 오피스, 레지던스, 컬쳐밴드 그리고 쇼핑몰을 하나로 묶는 구심점 역활을 수행한다. 여기에 컬쳐밴드의 화룡정점을 이루는 워터쇼; 프란코 드라곤의 무대, 백그라운드 이자 빌딩으로 한쇼 시어터는 자리하게 된다. 시어터 파사드는 강렬한 레드컬러와 8개의 자전거 휠, 그리고 극장 메인 드럼을 연결하는 수백개의 스포크로 디자인되며, 이 스포크 사이, 25,000개의 스틸 디스크로 이루어진 메쉬가 외피를 완성한다. 완성된 시어터 파사드는 내부 극장을 위한 시설 확보는 물론 외부 워터쇼를 위한 장치로 중국의 또하나의 상징물을 생성한다.
reviewed by SJ, 오사
The Han Show Theatre provides the building and staging for a new water show by Franco Dragone. Located in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, it forms the anchor for one end of a major development by Beijing-based development group Dalian Wanda.
The ‘Wuhan Central Cultural District’ development is the first stage of a city-wide programme to provide waterway connections between Wuhan’s six lakes. The Cultural District includes a programme of offices, residential, cultural buildings and shopping malls along a 2km canal-side site. The development is anchored at the east and west by two cultural buildings designed by Stufish. To the west, the ‘Han Show’ Theatre overlooks Donghu Lake; the Film Culture Theme Park overlooks Shahu Lake to the east.
The concept for The Han Show Theatre is derived from the traditional Chinese lantern. Stufish wanted to create an instantly recognisable Chinese symbol that would provide an aesthetic cladding to the theatre’s auditorium and fly tower. The lantern itself is designed to work at many scales. From distant views from across the lake it can be read as a simple symbolic form. Up close the lantern surface is created from thousands of disks each of which is lit both inside and out. Inside the theatre lobby space, the glazed roof of the atrium looks up into the 56m high lantern structure.
The
façade of the theatre is assembled from eight ‘bicycle’ wheels with
hundreds of spokes that connect it to the main drum of the theatre. The
wheels support a mesh with 25,000 steel disks – the detailing of which
was inspired by the Chinese bi disks – an historic Chinese object
symbolising skyward ambition and the heavens – an external symbol of
what the audience will discover in Franco Dragone’s show.
The
show will feature audience seats that move to reveal an 8m deep
swimming pool and the largest ever movable LED screens. The technical
apparatus will form an astonishing armature for Franco Dragone’s
creative genius.
The building opened 20 December 2014
from contemporist