Taiwan Pop Music Center / Visiondivision
Visiondivision’s latest entry for the Taiwan Pop Music Center competition aims to “transcend its visitors into a total escapism of pop.” With different districts that use the effect of the main tower and specific angles of light, the whole building expands dramatically in appearance, from a rather low key building in the distance to a spectacular body of light once approached.
More about the project including images and a further project description after the break.
Inside the pop center, the Star District includes office space and rehearsal studios in a flexible large space that can be easily modified to accommodate specific needs. All office space and rehearsal studios can be reached internally through the surrounding walls. The streets and the small squares in these blocks will be an important area for intermingling for the guest artist and entourage with the local artists and office personnel working in the building. An additional star palace incorporates a hotel setting for the featured artist with an upper level penthouse suite and an exclusive pool formed as a glass bowl that can be illuminated by the tower.
The outdoor arena is a plane surface surrounded by walls with three levels of balconies on each side. Smoke machines allow the space to be disguised as a cloud with “the cloud rig” mounted on a rail with a light and sound system that can support the scene anywhere on the arena area either as a roof for the artist or as a separate feature emphasizing the show.
The live houses are located in the center of the building, connected both to the outdoor arena and the commercial district. These live houses have different scales and characters for different performances. All live houses, except the smallest ones, have holes punctuating the roofs for the projections from the tower to reach the scenes. A tranquil park for recreation sits amidst the live houses allowing people to take a moment to relax while visiting the complex. The live houses are placed so they can be reached separately from outside the complex for easy controlled night activities.
The main hall provides a unique concert experience as large punctuations in the roof are illuminated. The sloping spectator area is made out of glass beams which can transmit light out on the auditorium plaza, creating an epic foyer for the arriving crowds. The roof above the auditorium becomes a sloping terrace down to the commercial district with views over the whole complex. Inside the commercial district, users can visit the central square with the tower, the hall of fame and a great cluster of bars and shops that continue on the sloping roof terrace of the main auditorium.
Credits: Ulf Mejergren & Anders Berensson, 3D from Andres Morelli
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I love how the lights makes up the whole appearance of the building, would look stunning if ever built!
is this a joke?
what about light pollution ?
will it be too bright to affect the neighborhood ?
I know this competitions documents by heart and say that this project is utterly dysfunctional and out of context even in terms of paper architecture. Many prerequisites and priorities were ignored. If there is a hint or irony here, I cant sense it.
The central light tower idea is good but unfortunately it wasn’t presented well. Still, I congratulate them for their effort because it was a uniquely hard competition to deal with.
There is no design. Purely Adobe-incorporated.
For me, the design is very clear and strict
brilliant and epic!
i wish to see all other entries, maybe a lot of them better than this.. will compare it with studio gang.. :)
does anyone know what studio gang’s proposal actually looked like?
Well its a nice photoshop/illustrator project. Can’t see anything spatially or tectonically, so poor choice of rendering styles.
O……k….
cool idea for a horror film
Ooh wow. On the one hand, I love the fact that they are using architecture to pretty much blow apart the typical concert experience.
But on the other, I feel like this project is just begging to make Kunstler’s “Eyesore of the Month” list.
It is perfect to turn into complex of swimming pools after all.
Hello Kitty + Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” album cover + Rem’s thesis = F L U S H
Super, this is really good and different.
Frodo run! it’s the new eye of Sauron
Love it! action architecture!
Brave and experimental, nice!
build this
Just love this project!
Very photoshop! But if this will come true, stage would be perfect if MJ is there!
sorry, i dont see any Taiwanese culture on this one..
where is Taiwanese music culture? how to represent
the locally music culture for Taipei? a lot of western images for the collages couldnt show what Taiwanese music is..
Is pop music something original for Taiwan you mean?
Michael Kwongson and Bing-Bing Spears are from taipei right?
great idea, but wrong kind of expression i guess. Can light really work that way?
Oh yeah baby! this is what im talking ’bout!
reference rem koolhaas’s graduate thesis – Voluntary prisoners of architecture… this is practically plagiarism.
you dont seem to know your koolhaas very well. Besides that these both project has walls, I dont see anything similar to it. Koolhaas on the other hand took his wall (and concept) from superstudio.
In fact I don’t know Koolhaas at all – never met the fellow, i’ve heard he is not very nice. though, it might mean something that I have been to many of his buildings and studied many of his projects and writings. Restrain reactionary impulses and look harder. Are you better to find flaws in a statement or truth? Usually there are both.
Koolhaas provokes multiple interpretations. I will posit mine briefly – Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture outlines a long rectilinear enclave of distinct programmatic departments, devoted largely to self-indulgence, entertainment, and voyeurism. It is a building paradigmatic of a city. It is a conceptual proposal meant to make a statement about the state of architecture, urban culture, and what it could be. It was never intended to be built. is it an idea, but as it is architecture, it is an idea communicated by aesthetic, program, and organization. I admit, plagiarism is an exaggeration, but nonetheless this project is perhaps as similar as an entry for a competition for a real building could be to Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture. It similar in its rectilinear form and roofless walled interior. It is similar its organization of linearly segmented programs. It is similar in its perverse aesthetic of hegemony, most clearly depicted by the tower. It is similar in its voyeurism and over-stimulation. It too is paradigmatic of the city. It is similar in that it does not aspire to the realistic – visiondivision probably had little doubt in their minds that the project would not be built and such obvious foreknowledge greatly changes the motivation and nature of the project… maybe the similarities are clear now.
and I do not deny superstudio’s influence on Koolhaas’s work (nor does he).
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