NEW BUND 31 Performing Arts Center 前滩31文化演艺中心
前滩地区也被称为新外滩,发展迅速,有望成为继陆家嘴之后上海的下一个商业区。新前滩文化中心坐落于黄浦江畔一簇闪亮的全新高楼之间,将会容纳一座大剧院和黑箱剧场表演空间,其坐落的地理位置更能将其成为一个建筑地标和社区的文化目的地。
如恩为该项目的室内设计构想为“竞技场”,是一个对古典原型的当代诠释。大剧院,其大堂大厅,以及环绕其周围的流通道路,都由一系列拱门限定其在空间中的位置。从五层的中庭空间可以一览高垒的层层拱门,给人留下深刻印象。从任何给定的位置,您的目光都会在空间之间上下移动;访客扮演观察者和表演者的双重身份,中庭也由此化身为了另一个舞台。在配有2500个座位的大剧院中,暖色调的橡木包裹环绕着整个表演厅,这里重复出现的拱门主题不仅呼应了竞技场的概念,还帮助满足了剧院的静音需求。
黑箱展览空间是一个提供MICE性能(集会,奖励,会议和展览)的多功能设施。文化中心中的其它支持空间也呈现了独到的设计;从古铜色覆面的卫生间,到呈现铜质曲面的电梯轿厢,再到多孔的砖砌VIP休息室,每个空间都呈现出其独到之处。
在整个项目中,如恩试图摆脱在常规娱乐空间设计中的浮华和音躁,而是通过使用触觉性材料和古典原型为设计注入一种博物馆般的质感。“竞技场”不仅是让人们在视觉和听觉上受到激发的场所,更能引发其智力上的思考。
The Qiantan area, also known as The New Bund, is in rapid development and on track to become Shanghai’s next business district after Lujiazui. Situated along the bank of the Huangpu River amongst a cluster of shiny new skyscrapers, the new Qiantan Cultural Center will house a grand theater and a black box performance space, well positioned to become an architectural landmark and cultural destination for the community.
Neri&hu’s interior design concept for the project is "the arena,” a contemporary interpretation of the classical archetype. The grand theater, its lobby concourse, and the circulation paths encircling it, are all defined by a series of arches. A strong impression is made in the five-story atrium space, where the full height of stacked layers of arches can be viewed. From any given position, your eye is drawn up and down, across the spaces; visitors take on a duality of roles—both observer and performer—such that the atrium itself becomes another stage. Within the 2500-seat grand theater, warm oak envelops the entire the performance hall, the repeating arch motif here not only echoes the arena concept, but also helps to fulfill the acoustic requirements of the theatre.
The black box exhibition space is a multi-purpose facility that serves MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) functions. Other support spaces throughout the cultural center showcase unique designs as well—from the bronze-clad toilets, to lift cabs featuring curved copper, to the VIP lounge made of perforated bricks (as seen from the picture, the bricks themselves are not perforated, but rather the walls)—imparting each space with its own distinctive features.
Throughout the project, Neri&hu attempts to break away from the flashiness and noise commonly found in entertainment space design, rather to inject a museum-like quality through the use of tactile materials and archetypal forms. "The Arena" becomes a venue that invites people to not only be visually and aurally stimulated, but also to be challenged intellectually.
