Performing Arts Centre Taipei Design, Taiwan Architecture Contest Entry, New Building Images

Taipei Performing Arts Center

Taiwan Competition Entry design by Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos

26 Mar 2009

3rd Prize

Design: Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos

Taipei Performing Arts Center Entry

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

Taipei Performing Arts Center Design – Building Information

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
Constructed area: 48.105m²

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