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Chinese Opera Theater Spring 2009
STUDIO PROJECT @ NUS ( 1 semester) INSTRUCTOR: Peter Sim THEME : Reinvent Tradition SITE: Hill Street, Singapore
Culture and tectonic can be the genetic code for designing of a civic building, especially for a traditional program such as a Chinese Opera house. This project investigates the two very di erent typologies of traditional Chinese Opera House, Courtyard Theater ’and ‘Teahouse Theater’, employing them in the new extrapolation. The traditional architecture’s structural system is also reinvented, as a mean of evoking tectonic tradition in the atmosphere.