Taiwan Performing Arts Centre

Taipei Performing Arts Center Entry : 3rd Prize From human being origins, people doing circles around someone who is speaking, singing, dancing or arguing - under a tree shadow if possible - has been the main characteristic of performing. Our music halls maintain this original condition and extend their geometry to the whole complex, which turns into a group of big trees with a stratified structure, as the local tropical forest, working at the same time as a functional scheme and an environmental strategy: - Over the trees a roof tour that conform a new landscape is proposed, giving identity to the complex. - Music Halls are in the trees, organized around a principal lobby and two secondary ones. Each hall adopts a particular configuration reinforced by its different coloration (gold silver, bronze). - Under the trees, topography splits in two: Upwards, composing a park protected from the sun and the rain. Downwards composing a complex of commercial galleries that extend the activity from Shilin Night Market and goes through the building. Against the typical configuration of a principal and a back façade this project achieves a total urban isotropy, not only with four but with five facades in relation with the context. Taipei Performing Arts Center Entry images / information from Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos 260309 TAIPEI PERFORMING ART CENTER 2009 International Competition. Third Prize. Constructed area: 48.105m² Client: Taipei City Government Architects: Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos Local Partner: Ricky Liu and Associates / Architects + Planners Project Directors: Iñaki Abalos, Renata Sentkiewicz Project Team: Jorge Álvarez Builla (Project manager) Andrés Besomi Terrazas Margaux Eyssette, Víctor Garzón, Nissim Haguenauer, Pablo de la Hoz, Ismael Martín, Alfonso Miguel, Laura Torres Roa Structural Engineer: Agustí Obiol - Boma / KLC & Associates Sustainability consultant: Florencio Manteca - CENER Performing consultant: Wu Jing-Jyi, Hsu Po-Yun, Li Huan-Hsiun, Taiwan Theatre consultants: Theateradvises BV, Netherlands / PAT, Taiwan Stage Mechanical: Ángel Pérez Sellers - Thyssen Krupp Spain Acoustic consultant: Higini Arau - Arau Acústica M/E: Frontier Engineering / C.C.LEE & Associates Prevention & Evacuation: Taiwan Fire Safety Consulting Traffic: THI Consultants Inc, Taiwan Model: Transference Cosmos Model, Taiwán Rendering: Andrés Besomi Terrazas, Nissim Haguenauer, Pablo de la Hoz