Performing Arts Center
Taipei / Taiwan

This architectural project plays with different elements and consists of a central cube from which other structures emerge, such as the distinctive sphere. The art centre was conceived as an experimental place where spaces can be reconfigured and used in different ways.

The interior design is determined by a colour concept: public spaces in blue, practice rooms in pink, backstage rooms in dark brown. In the "Blue Box" room, a decorative curtain made of fibreglass fabric in a special shade of blue was mounted on JOKER TRAC-DRIVE track. For the round theatre hall with an oval portal opening, three EVEN projection screens were made, two of them with a CUE-TRACK track at the bottom and top. The projection screens can be moved vertically and horizontally. Thus, numerous variable stage openings can be realised.

Design architect: OMA, Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten

• Interior design, curtain design, screen design and landscape design: INSIDE OUTSIDE Petra Blaisse