Chas Pope

Total Architecture – Engineering of the Taipei Performing Arts Center

Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) is a new international-standard performing arts facility for the capital of Taiwan, commissioned to satisfy the demands of the city’s contemporary arts scene and advance Taipei as an international arts capital.

OMA’s competition-winning design consists of three theatres plugging into and cantilevering from a central Cube. By orientating the three theatres towards each other and consolidating and combining many of their backstage functions, they combine into a single and efficient whole: each theatre can be used independently or in combination, offering opportunities for theatrical experimentation and unique views through the stage and into the other auditoria. A public path inside the cube exposes parts of the backstage areas that would normally be hidden.