Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
Basic Design's theatrical interior operates as a rich symbolic environment encoding meanings through spatial hierarchy, material choice, and geometric language that speak to universal human experiences of collective gathering, cultural ritual, and transformative encounter, the three-tiered vertical organization echoes ancient amphitheater traditions while invoking archetypal associations with ascent and hierarchy, suggesting that the experience of witnessing performance involves both physical and metaphorical elevation, the warm timber materiality throughout carries deep cultural resonance with concepts of organic warmth, natural authenticity, and human-scaled craft in contrast to cold technological surfaces, wood as a living material that once grew and continues to resonate acoustically becomes symbolic of the living art forms the space hosts, the faceted wall geometry may be understood as referencing crystalline structures associated with clarity, transformation, and the hidden geometries underlying natural beauty, alternatively these angular planes evoke origami traditions suggesting transformation through careful folding, the metamorphosis of flat material into dimensional form paralleling how theatrical space transforms everyday existence into heightened aesthetic experience, the saturated red of the seating carries powerful symbolic weight across cultures from vitality and passion to celebration and auspicious blessing, red traditionally draws the eye and quickens the pulse preparing bodies and minds for engaged attention, the bilateral symmetry reinforces associations with ceremony, ritual, and formal gathering spaces where community assembles to witness events of shared significance, the dissolution of the ceiling into darkness above creates a threshold between earthly gathering and cosmic mystery, suggesting that performance venues serve as liminal spaces where ordinary reality opens onto transcendent possibility, the overall composition invites reading as a contemporary sacred space dedicated to the secular religion of artistic expression and collective human presence.
The Elegant Lotus, the Cultural Card of the City The lotus in the wind sways gracefully and sends off pleasant fragrance. Sanshui Cultural Center is located in Hexiang Lake, the core area of Sanshui New Town, Foshan City. As a new cultural landmark of Sanshui City, its architectural appearance and interior design are of high standards.