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Entry for the Busan Opera House competition 08-2011

Joined project: BaO + KJYAO + Pd’AA

BaO (Beijing), KJYAO (Beijing) and Pd’AA (London) collaborated on an exciting entry for the Busan Opera House competition in South Korea. The site of the competition is located on a reclaimed island in the middle of existing docks that, in the near future, will become a new cultural zone for Busan Metropolitan City. We propose an OPERA ON THE MOVE as a creative response to the evolving nature of opera in the 21st century, setting new standards of presentation and production in the performing arts. Our projects advocates both a programmatic dynamism (Opera = open cultural center for everyone) and a much more literal kind of move. We envisage that an element of Busan Opera House could detach itself from the main body of the building and sail across oceans to dock at venues around the world. If opera and theatre companies keep touring the planet to give performances, why couldn’t the building itself do so?

Rendering

• Architects: BaO & KJYAO & Pd’AA
• Name of Project: Busan Opera House
• Location: Busan port, South Korea
• Credits: Benjamin Beller, Kuo Jze Yi, Pierre d’Avoine with Nikolay Shahpazov, Marie Daille, Civita Halim
• Collaborators: Aran Chadwick_Atelier One (structural engineering), Bill Watts_Max Fordham llp(environmental engineering)

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