Although it didn’t win this time, UNStudio has revealed the design proposal for the Shenzhen Opera House. The team at UNStudio Shanghai and I worked several months on this and the result would have been a great development for Shenzhen.
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Today, we pushed “launch” and it felt great!
Tomorrow, we will continue to populate the site, make it clearer, more useable.
We also plan to have a Download section for all these generative design tools we do on the side. So please get in touch if you want us to look at something in particular!
When you have 200 rooms to scale for a project and very little time, you need a visual tool that can help you resolve bills of quantities, acoustics and proportions of the space. We are working of a Quick RT calculator directly in Grasshopper. It feeds the basics room list from an Excel spreadsheet and based on simple criteria, can assist you with getting all your volumes and quantities of acoustic finishes into the spreadsheet. By the way, it also creates 3D models for export or reuse in the model.
Can we assist architects during the intense period of a design competition with a volume holder for a Blackbox theatre? Giving volumes are great, but what if it was a little bit more advanced? What if it could be rendered as well and include useful information about foyer levels and access routes?
Or simply a tool to assist a client with visualizing what a 400m2 footprint can get them?
Acoustic Research & Design Ltd 