Opera House's Void: A Curtain Lifted from the Ground

All four facades of a performing arts building are covered with curved metal tube screens. The tubes are thin, circular stainless steel, arranged vertically with an 80mm spacing, hanging from the roof all the way to the ground. However, at the four corners, the tube screens are lifted upwards like a curtain, forming 18-meter-high curved openings. People enter through these four openings into a continuous central atrium. The tube screens show a soft vertical reflection in the sunlight, appearing like flowing water from a distance. The building mass itself is a simple square, with all expression concentrated on this outer skin. Avoid: making the tube screens into regular square tubes or grilles, making the openings square, adding signs and lighting, making the building mass an irregular shape.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟表演藝術建築的四個立面都覆蓋著彎曲的金屬管簾,管是細的圓形不鏽鋼,垂直排列,間距 80mm,從屋頂一路垂到地面。但在四個角落,管簾像布幕一樣被向上掀起,形成高 18 公尺的圓弧形開口,人從這四個開口進入,內部是一個貫通的中庭。管簾在陽光下呈現柔和的縱向反光,遠看像一片流動的水。建築量體本身是簡單的方形,所有的表情都在這層皮上。避免:管簾做成規則的方管或格柵、開口做成方形、加入招牌與燈飾、量體做成不規則造型。