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Project Overview
SCA’s entry for a competition to design a new theatre in China takes its inspiration from ancient Chinese puzzle balls.
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Project Context
Chinese puzzle balls are intricately carved artifacts consisting of several concentric spheres, each freely rotating within the next and formed from a single block of material. Traditionally crafted by master carvers, each ball is typically composed of up to 10 concentric layers. They received their name from the curiosity and wonder their making inspired.
Project Innovation
A spherical massing was chosen as the most efficient geometry for enclosing the largest volume will the least surface material. The primary structure is a twin layer geodesic dome formed of tubular steel members connecting to machined spherical nodes. The cladding panels are formed of GRC and sit as a rainscreen over a substrate formed of insulated aluminium panels with integrated glazing units.
The cladding geometry is inspired by patterns found in window screens from the region. The 97% of the surface can be covered using a limited range of 30 panel shapes allowing for significant efficiencies in form making and quality control.
Concept - Space
Conceptual Design celebrates the projects that are yet to be realised. They are may be creative ideas, imagined future states or thought pieces intended to start a conversation. This category rewards the blue sky thinking that is needed to drive design forward.
The space category celebrates the design process and outcomes of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. It includes architecture, interior design and landscape design as well as set display and exhibition design.
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