Hainan Performance Art Centre
The studio is designing a tropical opera house for the island province of Hainan at the southernmost point of China. The competition, organised by Haikou Tourism & Culture Investment Holding Group, called for a new cultural landmark with a top tier performing arts centre. Heatherwick’s response provides three performance spaces – an opera house, a concert hall and a theatre – that come together as a focal point for the new Jiangdong cultural quarter just east of the historic city centre. The new performing arts centre will have capacity for 3,800 people and integrate arts, creative, learning, rehearsal and performance spaces. The venue aims to stage international productions that range from large-scale opera, ballet and musicals to avant-garde drama, fashion and immersive multimedia performance. The design process involved a team of makers and engineers who crafted the design through physical and immersive digital modelling alongside rigorous testing and data analysis. Our design responds intelligently to the local ecology and climate, reducing energy consumption and costs while cooling the environment for visitors and users of the space.
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