The Star Performing Arts Centre

The civic and public components of The Star Performing Arts Centre where paramount and outwardly expressed. The south elevation is completely opened up presenting the inner workings of the facility as a “visible section”. The mass of the theatre floating above is faceted, cut with glass and utilizes titanium cladding. All of these helps dissolve and break down the mass, playing with a composition of positive and negative readings. The civic building is intended to be an organic object which is open to public discovery. One can crawl under, move through, transverse around and climb onto the complex through a series of ramps, escalators, terraces and public gardens. All circulation, movement and internal forms are soft and sinuous as if the civic activities have polished the inside of the urbanely presented strong faceted exterior. Soft transition occurs vertically from the most public of the open retail into the perceptual privacy of the theatre. This entire sequence and transition is linked visually and spatially to the “Grand Foyer” connecting the sunken retail below up through the glass floor of the theatre’s main lobby exposing its volume floating above.