Week 01- Intro (Case Study)
National Taichung Theater is located in Taiwan, and designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito. It is a building with curved walls as the main structural support. The building is composed of 58 curved walls and 29 caves. The spaces are of different sizes, separated and connected, forming a flowing space. The glass curtain wall and cement wall on the exterior of the opera house are shaped like wine bottles, so that we can see sunlight shining into the interior through the “holes” in the ceiling. The large glass curtains in the building and the space without obvious boundaries make the opera house an open building. Its purpose is to allow sunlight, air, water and sound to flow together in the theater.
(Photograph by myself)
